Source:Sundayobserver It is no exaggeration to call Anuk Arudpragasam’s first novel absolutely devastating. The Story of a Brief Marriage depicts Dinesh, a sixteen-year-old Tamil man—and yes, at sixteen Dinesh is in many ways a man, forced into a premature adulthood—in a refugee camp toward the end of the Sri Lankan ...

Hymn for Sri Lanka – Produced & Sung by Aglow Generations Choir. – Aglow International Sri Lanka. This Song was done during the most hard times in our nations, so we declare a blessing upon our Beautiful Nation of Sri Lanka, may there be peace in the boarders, as the ...

Former Black Cap Chris Cairns has reportedly collapsed in Australia and is on life support. It is understood Cairns suffered a major medical emergency – an aortic dissection – in Canberra last week. This is when a tear occurs in the inner layer of the body’s main artery. He will ...

  Joseph Anthony Clair Herft was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 15 June 1932. He was the eldest son of eight children born to Ivan and Wilhelmina Herft, his other siblings being Rita, Amy, Dorothy, Anne, Frederick, Bernadette and Patrick. Dad had fond memories of his childhood playing with ...

Source:-dandenong A rallying community has so far donated more than $97,000 to support a grief-stricken family who lost their four-year-old boy in a house fire in Dandenong. Rithish Kirushnaneethan died despite desperate attempts to rescue him from his bedroom as his family home in Leonard Street was engulfed in flames ...