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By Hugh Karunanayake Dickmans Road in Bambalapitiya was given its name at the end of the 19th century. The road itself connecting Galle Road to Havelock Road (then called Bambalapitiya Road) existed even before the 1880s and at the time was one of the few roads linking the western seaboard with Colombo’s hinterland, but in […]
OLD PERADENIYA By Ernest Macintyre INTRODUCTION The Mahaweli River, 335 long, the longest river in Lanka, has its beginning in a remote village of Nuwara-Eliya District in the central hills, and ends going into the sea at the Bay of Bengal on the east coast at Trincomalee. As it passes Kandy, the main town of […]
CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca Creating ‘The Fashion Model of the Year’ In showbiz, it is always easy to follow in the footsteps of others. However, I realized that doing something new and innovative, […]
Excerpted from the Memoirs of a Cabinet Secretary by BP Peiris A few months after leaving Royal, I entered our University College under the Principalship of Robert Marrs who lectured to us on Philosophy. I was then a first year Arts student. Professor Pakeman spoke on the British Constitution and Warden Stone of St Thomas’ […]
By ECB Wijeyesinghe Those who have studied the laws governing heredity, whether it be in human beings or animals, are sometimes amazed at how the qualities of sires are reproduced in their progeny.In Europe there was a thing called the Hapsburg Lip which was the distinguishing mark of a distinguished family. In Sri Lanka we […]