Michael Roberts
A week or so before patriotic Sri Lankans marked and celebrated “Independence Day” on 4th February denoting the day on which the imperial British order of the modern era relinquished its formal colonial hold on “Ceylon,” Australians marked “Australia Day” with commemorative ceremonies on 26th January. In fact, at the ceremony in Adelaide marking our Sri Lankan independence, I came across a former naval officer in resplendent out with medals marking his service in the Sri Lankan Navy who had received his Australian citizenship a week or so earlier.
