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Excerpted from te authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas B. Ranasinghe (Continued from last week) Thilo continues: “The Ven. Bhikkhu Sumedha, a long-time friend who had grown up in Switzerland, spent his early hermit years as a Buddhist monk at Situlpauwa and at the top of Vedahitikanda. He later obtained higher ordination, and died […]
By Douglas B. Ranasinghe excerpted from from the authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann Soon after their marriage, Thilo and Mae began to make extensive journeys through the country, during weekends and holidays. Once, on one of their first, they found themselves at Arugam Bay late in the afternoon. The old resthouse on the dunes consisted […]
(First Colour Feature Film in Sinhala) By Rohan Abeygunawardena (abeyrohan@gmail.com) and Ananda Wickramarachchi This article is dedicated to all the crew members of the first Sinhala colour film Ran Muthu Duwa that was screened 60 years ago on 10 August 1962.) Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was very well known world over as a […]