An Informant
A short extract from the 1979 film “One Hundred Entertainments” produced by Bob Kingsbury for Film Australia.
The film follows an acrobatic troupe in Shensi Province China as they perform and talk about their lives.
Category Archives: travelogue
When St. Peters of Adelaide toured Ceylon in January 1928
Michael Roberts
St. Peters College in Adelaide is an elite boys public school that has produced several Prime Ministers of South Australia and schooled many prominent figures in Australian life. The school’s cricket team chose to tour Ceylon in the month of January 1928 and played matches against Royal College, S. Thomas’ College and Trinity; and also against a team of planters at the grounds in Darrawella in the hill country.
Tamil X’mas Parade in New York Conveys Devotional Fare, 2023
Sent to Thuppahi by Ranjit Sirimanne …. revealing and arousing warmth in wintry conditions through song and traditional X’mas figures and vehicles
Sri Lankan Cricket Team’s Test Matches vs Netherlands and vs Denmark in 1975
Sri Lanka did not secure ICC cricket status till mid-1981. An important step in the progress towards this entitlement was the tour of England in mid-1975 with KMT Perera as Manager and Anura Tennekoon as skipper. The details of this tourcan be found in Michael Roberts & Alfred James: Crosscurrents. Sri Lanka and Australia at Cricket, Sydney, Walla Walla Press & Mobitel, 1998, pp. 88-94.
Seated l-to-r
David Heyn, Anura Tennekoon, KMT Perera. Mihael Tissera, Ranjit Fernando
Standing l-to-r Duleep Mendis, Lalith Kaluperuma, Sunil Wettimuny, Tony Opatha, HSM Pieris, DS de Silva, Dennis Chanmugam, Anura Ranasinghe, Bandula Warnapura
Galgiriya Mountain and Its Unique Monastic Ruins
Prageeth Sampath Karunathilaka, in Daily Mirror, 20 December 2023, where the title reads thus: “Longest mountain in Sri Lanka: How Saliya-Asokamala shaped the history of Galgiriya Mountain” ….
The Galgiriya mountain seen from afar
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For the People of GAZA … “Little Drummer Boy”
Web Item conveyed by Dr Firazath Hussain of Wellawatte, Colombo
From Ramallah Friends School to the world, we share our version of the timeless “ Little Drummer Boy.” Our hearts come together in prayer for the safety of the children in Gaza. May our shared prayers echo for peace and justice, weaving a tapestry of hope that goes beyond borders, embracing the shared humanity we all hold dear……… 162,402 views Dec 4, 2023 ….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsEbIVJy0Gg
A NOTE from One Thuppahi, 24 December 2023:
“I cried ….. tears came naturally …. especially when the WEB decided on its own to present a rendering of DANNO BUDUNGE sung by Kishani Jayasinghe ….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plaKsOtC3b8
…. then more tears welled.
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Minnette’s “88 Acres” Watapoluwa Housing Scheme reaches World Heights
An Item in the Sunday Island, 17 December 2023, entitled “World Monuments Fund officially endorses ‘88 Acres’ by the MMCA Sri Lanka”…. placed on web a few days back & in the Island as https://island.lk/world-monuments-fund-officially-endorses-88-acres-by-the-mmca-sri-lanka/
World Monuments Fund (WMF), the leading global independent organisation devoted to safeguarding the world’s most treasured places, has officially endorsed the exhibition titled ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka (MMCA Sri Lanka). The exhibition is currently on display at the museum on the ground floor of Crescat Boulevard, Colombo 3, and will be open to the public until 7 July 2024.
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Early Writing: The Evidence from Sri Lanka
Darshanie Ratnawalli, here reproducing an article presented in the Colombo Telegraph and The Island in June 2016, where the title runs “Sri Lanka’s role in South Asia’s earliest writing controversy”
A few years ago someone came up with the campaign line ‘small miracle’ as a unique proposition to promote Sri Lanka to tourists. The Rajapaksa Government took exception to the ‘small’ and scrapped the campaign midway. This was a pity. The country has genuine small miracle credentials, tending sometimes to raise eyebrows by producing phenomena usually deemed too big, too grand for a country of its size. It can for example claim ownership of the oldest surviving, reliably dated samples of writing to be found in the whole of South Asia.
