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Laki Senanayake (1937-2021) Laki is seated on a black, high-backed, padded executive swivel chair. He is bare-bodied, in a bright red sarong, dappled sunlight catching his white beard. On the table in front of him is a pair of binoculars, which he picks up frequently to look at the birds in the trees around the pond that he overlooks from a raised open-air platform. Esoteric avant garde music is playing from speakers hidden in the trees. And everywhere you look, art. Mostly sculpture. A bronze wild boar at the water’s edge. An other-wordly ‘rain tree’ in the middle of the water. A horse on the other side of the pond. A golden sun high up in a tree. An owl looming from the roof. More animals appearing the longer you look. A leopard adorned with geometric shapes in gold and green. A rhinoceros perched on a rock. A tiger attacking a deer in the trees. A unicorn, a hornbill, an emu. The water monitor in the undergrowth turns out to be real. Laki is working on a sculpture ....
The Girls’ School In Colombo 8 The Sri Lankan press has witnessed some content on the alleged efforts to shift a reputed all-girls’ school situated in Colombo 8 to a new location outside Colombo city limits. Some past pupils of that school have expressed concern over this development. The general narrative of the school’s principal is that no such thing is going to happen. In a funny twist, the principal of this school – herself a government servant whose job falls within the purview of the Ministry of Education – is contradicted by the sitting Minister of Education! Responding to a question by an opposition MP, Minister of Education Professor G.L Peiris confirmed in parliament that efforts to shift a section of the said all-girls’ school are under way – in response to the high demand for this school, from parents of prospective pupils! ....
We have read some interesting stories in this newspaper about Burghers who flew their flags in the administrative services and elsewhere including in the sports field. But no one has yet written about the Burghers who rendered a yeomen service to the public to keep in touch with the outside world via telegraphic communications round the clock 24 hours day and night. The Cable and Wireless Limited branch in Colombo was a British owned company which had it headquarters in London, responsible for hnadling all external telegraphic services in the colonies of the British Empire including India and Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). ....