61st Death Anniversary (1959 – 2020) The Assassination of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike An Anecdotal Reflection-by Senaka Weeraratna Source:Lankaweb It was a Friday fifty six years ago to be exact on September 25, 1959 at around 10.30 a.m. in the morning when I was in the class room listening to Mr. H.P. Jayawardena’s English lesson in our final year at Royal Primary School, that my eye caught a movement in the corridor adjoining the class. When I looked sideways to my left I saw young Anura Bandaranaike being accompanied by his Ayah leaving the premises. In that relatively quiet moment my class mates too saw Anura being led away but none was able to second guess the reason. It was during the lunch hour that we got the distressing news that Anura’s father Mr. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, then Prime Minister of Ceylon, had been shot. Amidst a variety of reports streaming in of ...
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Frederick Dornhorst and Royal College – By Senaka Weeraratna Source: Thuppahi’s Blog Please note that the following article was provided on the 9th of July 2020, before the Dornhorst Memorial Prize was amended to be awarded to the Most Outstanding Royalist on the 16th of July 2020 “All Royalists of the present generation should specially remember two great Royalists, whose defense of the College in its darkest days saved Royal. They are Sir Richard Morgan (1851) and Frederick Dornhorst, K.C. (1916)”……. S.S. Perera in History of Royal College Named after one of the schools’ greatest sons for his remarkable oratory and highly persuasive speech delivered at a Royal College Prize Giving (1916), that led to the abandonment of a proposal to replace Royal College in favour of a University College, the Dornhorst Memorial Prize has shone as the most coveted Prize awarded to the most outstanding student during the year at ...
THE DEBATE ON DRS IN CRICKET EXPLAINED The debate over the Decision Review System (DRS) has been never-ending. First conceived by Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna in 1997, the DRS has improvised to become a permanent tool after a lot of controversies & upgrades. Here is a 3-minute whiteboard style video briefly explaining the debate over DRS and how it left a mark in sport. ...
