Only an international, scientific health strategy can defeat this highly contagious virus, which ignores borders and passports and infects people of all nationalities.
Sung in a Tamil dialect mainly spoken by Sri Lankan plantation workers and in South India, “Enjoy Enjaami” is powerfully resonating with global audiences.
Posted on April 7th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Philip
Gunawardene returned to Sri Lanka in 1932 after ten hectic years abroad. Of all the socialist politicians in the
island, Philip Gunawardene is the only politician to have had close contact with
socialist movements abroad, observed Ananda Meegama. He had met with
revolutionaries and freedom fighters in four continents. Philip said he
has associated with socialists of different brands from pale pink to dark red
in various parts of the world.
His
father got to know something of his son’s activities when
Queen’s Counsel R.L. Pereira returned
from New York. Pereira had watched a massive demonstration by the Hotel Workers
Posted on February 9th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Peduru Hewage
William de Silva (1908-1988) was the only son of a wealthy professional family
of Batapola, near Ambalangoda. William studied at the Buddhist Mixed School in Batapola,
then at St. John’s, Panadura, later at Richmond College, Galle, and finally at
Ananda College from which he entered Ceylon University College. He had joined the Suriyamal movement when he
was a student at University College, Colombo. After one year, disenchanted
and bored, he left University College and went abroad for higher studies.
He
went to Oxford, then studied law in London and was called to the Bar in 1940. He was