Ripples On The Water: A History Of The Beira Lake “The Lake and the Slave Island from the glacis” by John Deschamps (1845) Source:Exploresrilanka In the heart of Colombo exists a lake overflowing with history. Created by invaders from afar, it was once many times its present size, served as ...
Read More →“MORE PONDERISMS” – by Des Kelly With my apologies to those who have pondered these ponderisms before, I did ponder on whether to publish these particular “beauties” on e’Lanka again and decided to do so simply because the ponderous pharaphaneliya (yes, I ponder and/or wonder if I have spelt that right), ...
Read More →Remembering Mr. K.N. Jayasinghe Source:stcobasydney.org A stanch product of STC Mount, Mr. Jayasinghe joined the teaching staff in 1958 and served with dedication and loyalty until retirement in 2001. Photo circa 1970 during his heyday as a much sought-after film director, producer and speech writer to several politicians. Sydney/ACT ...
Read More →The next Time – by Lalith Paranavitana – A tribute to Sir Cliff Richard ...
Read More →The men behind the nation’s lifeblood The Victoria Dam Source:Dailynews One of the main engineering pioneers of the Accelerated Mahaweli Development Programme, Senior Engineer Douglas Ladduwahetty passed away at the age of 96 recently. A few years ago, the Daily News interviewed him and several other senior officials for an ...
Read More →Aeroflot to launch services to SL from 4 Nov. Source:FT Russia’s Aeroflot will commence a new direct service between Moscow-Colombo, which starts on 4 November. The decision was made at a top-level meeting held between Russian Aeroflot officials and the Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga-led six-member visiting delegation in Moscow, Russia. ...
Read More →Poverty – by Oscar E V Fernando Poverty is described as the condition of being poor and in want-poor in quality-in adequacy-in efficiency-imagination etcetera-and the most impactful of all to society, is the poverty of insufficient money-to-leave alone live comfortably, but having to live in squalor-misery-hunger and consequent malnutrition United ...
Read More →COURT JUDGE IN STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN U.S.A By: Upali Obeyesekere – From Toronto, Canada SAN BERNARDINO, CA─ On July 9, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of Aruna P. Rodrigo to a judgeship in the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino. Aruna P. Rodrigo was recently ...
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