Tennis in Sri Lanka: Halcyon Days, 1915–1990-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Lam Seneviratne, compiler of a booklet published by the Sri Lanka Tennis Association, 45 Sir Marcus Fernando Mawatha, Colombo (Rajagiriya, New Lanka Printers, June 1990 … with blocks by Two P. Graphic Reproduction Services, Dehiwela). The compiling of this book to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Tennis Association quite unexpectedly devolved on me. I realized very quickly that it would be a big task to trace the events of 75 years. There were no similar publication to commemorate the silver or golden jubilees, which meant that a start had to be made from the very beginning. I had to interview the oldest officials, administrators, players and the relatives of those who have passed away, to obtain information, documents, souvenirs, paper clippings and photographs in order to record the history of these years. I say thank you to Doris Somanader, Coo Coo Jilla, Ranjani ...
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Sri Lankan born entrepreneur makes it onto FT1000 Europe’s fastest growing companies 2022 Source:ft.lk The luxury brand of British award-winning toiletries and gifts ‘Winter in Venice’ has earned a place in FT 1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022. Sri Lankan born Ermila Jayasuriya-Curtis is the Founder and Managing Director of WIV Global Ltd. and WIV Property Holding Ltd. in the UK. The survey was carried out by Statista, the research partner of the Financial Times. The FT 1000 is the result of a joint initiative by The Financial Times and Statista, which conducted months of research, public calls for participation, intensive database research and directly contacted tens of thousands of companies in Europe. In the end, Statista was able to identify outstanding companies among millions of European enterprises. “Winter in Venice clearly stood out and, as a result, will be publicly recognised in the FT as one of Europe’s ...
