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August 21, 2024 · 1:53 am

Fresh Light on the Mandapams in the Temples of Jaffna

Prof. T. Sanathanan is scheduled to present a TALK entitled “The Building of a ‘New’ Identity: Mandapams of Jaffna Temples” as part of the The Monthly Lecture Series No: 163 of the National Trust .… on Thursday 29th August 2024 at … Continue reading →

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December 23, 2025 · 6:19 pm

Vanni Hope: Surmounting the Impact of Cyclone Ditwah in Lanka

AN EMAIL NOTE From VANNI HOPE Dear Supporters, I hope this message finds you well. I’m writing to share that our team has now completed all video coverage and written reports for every Phase 1 initiative of our Cyclone Ditwah … Continue reading →

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June 6, 2025 · 7:42 pm

LATE NIGHT LIVE’s Searching Stories

A Note from Errol Fernando, early June 2025 ** Dear Michael,  I listened to a very interesting interview on Late Night Live recently which dealt with the whole story of Merle Oberon and her genealogy. Please google Late Night Live … Continue reading →

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October 16, 2025 · 1:30 pm

Waduge’s Chauvinist Sinhala Stance is Untenable

Mayura  Botejue The views of Ms. Waduge and her chauvinist Sinhala nationalist backers do not help to serve the interests of Sri Lanka. They sow discord and division at a time when the South Asian geopolitical brews concocted are exceedingly … Continue reading →

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October 3, 2025 · 12:24 am

Combating Underdevelopment: A Grounded Study

Lalith Lankatilleke’s Book on The Way to Address Poverty & Underdevelopment Bio-Data  on Back Page Lalith Lankatilleke (75), trained as an architect and planner in Sri Lanka, embarks on an epic journey at the age of twenty-six into the heart … Continue reading →

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March 16, 2025 · 5:16 pm

An Epitaph for Charlie Ramanaden THEN, 13 March 1997

Dushy S. Perera Jerry ‘Anna’ to his relations, Sir to his numerous subordinates and Charles to his friends, passed away suddenly whilst playing tennis (a sport close to his heart) partnering his son Pravin, at the Annual Darrawela Club Tennis … Continue reading →

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December 12, 2025 · 4:36 pm

The Burgher Tennis Club within Galle Fort

Michael Roberts Left to right – Standing: Messrs R. W. E. de Vos, Vyvil Loudowyk, Fred Bastiansz, E. F. C. Ludowyk Jnr., R. A. de Vos, Bubsy Austin, E. F. C. Ludowyk Snr, W. Colin-Thomé, Dudley de Kretser, Arthur Arndt, … Continue reading →

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September 6, 2025 · 12:52 am

Two Reviews in 2010 of Copeman’s Book on Blood Donations in India

https://sacrificialdevotionnetwork.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/jacob-copeman_veins-of-devotion/  ONE …. REVIEW OF Jacob Copeman: Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009, 233 pp)………….by Ron Barrett of Macalester College …. Taken from the American Ethnologist May 2010, vol. 37/2, … Continue reading →

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July 28, 2024 · 7:52 pm

Vale PVJ Jayasekera — Historian … Richmondite

An Appreciation within Richmond Viththi in Facebook, 11 July 2024 Renowned Richmondite Professor P V J Jaysekara passed away. He is the one and only History professor produced by Richmond College, Galle. He Supervised Mr Ananda Dias-Jayasinha to write the … Continue reading →

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February 23, 2024 · 7:50 pm

The “Butterfly Bridge” in Galle

Michael Roberts                 Dulip Karunaratne of St. Aloysius (as a boarder) sent this to me. As a resident of Galle Fort and a frequent visitor to the playing fields in front of the … Continue reading →

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