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Galle’s Eternal Charm-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Bandu de Silva, a reprint from The Island, 26 August 2012 … A Review Article on Galle As Quiet as Asleep by Norah Roberts The title Galle as Quiet as Sleep made me reflect for a long time. I asked myself how this title could fit in. Finally, I reconciled myself to it. Yes, Galle’s heritage is a quiet one. The people of Galle as Norah Roberts will tell us made their contributions quietly. Even now, the town after dusk or at early dawn is so calm and placid that one does not get the feeling of being in a big city. Certainly not like Kandy which has lost its old charm. Kaluwella with its old Kittange with the Kovil adjoining it still reminds one of the 19th century or early 20th century. One could still have a glass of plain tea served by ...

Mar 4, 2024 Posted by In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged , , , , , , ,
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Nigel Kerner: An Unique Note on Web well before he passed away-by Michael Roberts   Source:Thuppahis Studied at Saint Aloysius College during 1950/1960s. Nigel Kerner is an author and freelance journalist. He was born in Sri Lanka, his mother from a British planting family and his father an officer in the British Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. This international family base provided the background for an obsessive and serious interest in international human affairs and how these interface with science, religion and philosophy. He has felt driven, from his young years, to expose the humbug and hypocrisy in modern scientific and religious and social thinking. His formal graduate education is in biomedical science and human behavioural psychology. ...

Jan 17, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged , ,
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Former SL ruggerite passes away in US Dharmasiri Perera Source:Dailynews Former Police and Sri Lanka scrum half K. D. D. Sunil Dharmasiri Perera who was domiciled in the US, has passed away. An old boy of St. Aloysius’ College, Ratnapura and Mahabodhi Vidyalaya, Colombo 10, Perera who retired as a Sub-Inspector, represented Sri Lanka at the 1972 Rugby Asiad in Hong Kong along with four of his Police mates Anton Benedict, Nizam Hajireen, late Daya Jayasundara and Bandula Wijesinghe. ...

Jul 17, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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WALTER PERUMAL TRIBUTE He had all the hallmarks of an excellent hotelier Walter Perumal, the genial hotelier passed away on September 1, at the age of 70 years in Melbourne, Australia. Walter was a past pupil of St. Joseph’s College, Colombo and St Aloysius College, Galle where he excelled, among other things,in cricket. My friendship with Walter began when he joined the Ceylon Hotel School in 1969 – the boy from the south joining some of the boys from the rest of the country. Walter embedded in the crowd like duck to water. In happier times, we were living at the Hotel School hostel, the historic house, ‘Sefton’ at No. 78,Stuart Place opposite present-day Cinnamon Grand on the sea side. There were no differences between seniors and juniors, as we all lived under one roof. The Sefton is no more.   ...

Oct 9, 2020 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , Comments 0
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