N G P Panditharatne-a personification of honour and integrity “A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.” Walter Lippman During the last fifty years, our public service has been blessed with extraordinarily talented men and women, be in the field [...]
Late Engineer A.J.P. Ponrajah, Scholarship Award Inauguration On November 27, 2011, the Irrigation Department Ex-Officers’ Association (IDEA) with a membership of more than 300 inaugurated a scholarship award programme to benefit deserving students to follow a Sri Lankan University course. The scholarship is named in honour of a former Director of Irrigation who lived and [...]
Daphne Lord Tribute to Daphne Lord With a warm smile and outstretched hands, she graciously welcomed anyone and everyone who had the good fortune to walk into her world. Friends, relatives, teachers, students, or simply those in dire need ….. she always had time for them all…. That was her most human quality. Daphne was [...]
Brian Assey – A Grandfather Who Was Everything To Me By: Dusheckha Samaraweera How do I even begin, where can I even start to speak in appreciation of my beloved Grandfather, Brian St John Assey. He was Gampy to me and all his grandchildren. I know he was one of St. Benedict’s greatest teachers of [...]
S.Pathiravithana—A Sincere, Honest And Humane Journalist S . Pathiravithana was a journalist of unshakeable belief and composure who went through the immense convulsions of the journalistic profession in his time with grace and dignity. I met Pathi— he was called Pathi by one and all— as a reporter in the Daily News in the mid-seventies [...]
Gamini Fonseka, September 30, 2004 When you have a friend who was larger than life itself, as was Gamini Fonseka, the words of appreciation fall short and can never do justice to the person. Such is the situation I now find myself – in trying to describe my friendship with Gamini. Many years ago, an [...]
A Tribute to Deshamanya Cyril Herath If anyone had walked into the lobby of the National Savings Bank, Head Office around 8:00 a.m. on a working day during the period September 1994 to March 2002 he or she would not have missed a middle-aged person waiting in the queue for his turn to enter the [...]
Dr. A M A Azeez – A Muslim Legend By Deshamanya M.T.A. Furkhan The lives of Great men all remind us that we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Whereas every year the Death Anniversary of Dr. Azeez was commemorated on [...]
Remembering A Humourous Lawyer Shyam’s second death anniversary was on the August 12. Shyam studied at Royal College and left for London in 1986 and he passed out as a Barrister in Novermber 1990. He obtained the LL. M. (London) Degree in Novermber 1991, and completed his studies at the Ceylon Law College, to be [...]
Donald Thomas McDevitt It is with much sadness that I announce the passing away of Donald Thomas McDevitt, affectionately known by one and all, as ‘ Don’ on Thursday, August 04, 2011 in his home town, Bedford, Texas, USA. He was a frequent visitor to Sri Lanka and had many Sri Lankan friends. Don was [...]
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