Somasiri Devendra, ** whose chosen title is “A wooden bridge, an iron house, and Barbara then ….”
.………… of such are memories made, writes Somasiri Devendra
So, Barbara has ridden off into the sunset, on her white horse, after “a hard day’s night” leaving behind memories of the times when she was a person, not an icon, and very good company indeed. Those memories reach back 60 years.
Barbara and Hildon Sansoni in 1958
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A Shot taken by Siraj Timothy A Joseph in Belair National Park
Indeed, the Kookaburra was seated on the picnic table alongside a family group of three persons near Playford Lake when we arrived by car …. the picture above was taken at the next stage
Michael Roberts
Arthur C. Clarke came out to Ceylon in the 1950s and went adventuring in the jungles and seas of the island with the Brit, Mike Wilson and a local Burgher named Rodney Jonklaas. He took to the island and its peoples – aided no doubt by its easy-going lifestyle and the widespread scope for homosexual relations. He settled down in Colombo and became a member of the Otters Club where he could swim and indulge in table tennis. His commitment to the island was such that he deployed his international links to ensure that a satellite was placed in the skies to service Sri Lanka among its many capacities.
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Fabian Schokman
Over the course of this last week, what Sri Lanka has witnessed is a teledrama, not too different from the teledramas that your grandmother, mother and maids watch. An elaborate script designed to draw the gullible into a daily melodrama to take their attention away from the base of the struggle unfolding all around them.
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From a seemingly Reliable Set of Sources…. one Gallian and another US Galilean
As per the meeting held at Presidents House a little while ago, following has been agreed.
Studied at Saint Aloysius College during 1950/1960s.
Nigel Kerner is an author and freelance journalist. He was born in Sri Lanka, his mother from a British planting family and his father an officer in the British Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm.
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Michael Roberts
The four-volume edition of DOCUMENTS OF THE CEYLON NATIONAL CONGRESS was presented by the Department of National Archives in 1977 and has been out of stock for some time now.
Haris De Silva — Deputy Director, DNA in the 1970s
Volume ONE contains a book within a book written by me and entitled ELITES, NATIONALISMS and the NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN BRITISH CEYLON – in seven chapters and running to ccxxii pages.
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……………… and Just Yesterday in Easter 2019
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