“Most Lankans would by now have forgotten the poorest prime minister the world ever had, the late Dr W. Dahanayake.” Wijeyananda Dahanayake and his brother and his brother Kalyanapriya Dahanayake. Born to as twin to a conservative family in Galle as Don Wijeyananda Dahanayake, he was educated at Richmond College, ...

Source:Brisbane 4EB Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – September 2021 The UN’s climate science body has published a major report on the physical changes happening and projected to occur as a result of human activity, from devastating floods to destructive wildfires. It is the first scientific review since 2013 when ...

Source:Brisbane 4EB Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – September 2021 A father is someone who is always there for his children. Someone who helps them grow up, nurture them and challenges them to become better people, not only in educational aspect, but in a moral aspect as well. These are ...

Source:Brisbane 4EB Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – September 2021 What does it mean to be indigenous? Indigenous people are often defined as those with a pre-colonial history and who have distinct cultural, religious, linguistic, and genetic status to other populations in the country. The indigenous people of Sri Lanka ...

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Everyone seems to be humming, and even singing aloud, a particular song. And it certainly has brought the singer concerned success that even the big names, in the local showbiz scene, have not been able to achieve. The song that is on everybody’s lips, these days, is ‘Manike Mage Hithe’ and the ...

  Source:Island M.S, Department of Agriculture & Biological Engineering, Utah State University, Utah, USA, B.Sc (Civil Engineering), University of Peradeniya, A technical paper on the Gampaha Jogging Track, published in 2012 in an Annual Session hold by the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka had won the first prize in a ...

Book Review: Can Asians Think? by Kishore Mahbubani Source:Brisbane 4EB Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – September 2021 “Can Asians Think” is a soul searching and provocative collection of essays by the former Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani. Mahbubani is a Singaporean of Indian descent. His parents moved to Singapore when ...

“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” GEORGE LORIMER Scammers Scammers are the big topic this week. I’ve started to receive ...