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| Sankara and wife Mallika. |
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| Sankara's son Roy, Grand-son and Sankara. |
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| Sankara's son, wife Dr Thanuja - Pathology - and two children. |
This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Dr. Sankaranarayana (1960 entrants Batch).
Perceptions - email from Gallege De Silva
Perception(Don't Miss watching this)
Friday, August 23, 2013
The Pronking Dance of the Antelopes - email jksw
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:24:57 +0530
Subject: FW: - Lovely!
Subject: FW: - Lovely!
Springboking. All four feet at once.
jksw
Thursday, August 22, 2013
'How great Thou art' on bells - email from Dr.Newton Jayawardena
AWESOME
Amazing piece of art...beautifully performed. Click on link below:-
Performance of same by a choir with words of the hymn - click on link below:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GKhDCsLrUg
PGV
Pre-historical Jaffna - email jksw.
Antiquity of Jaffna city goes back to Roman times
Pottery associated with Roman times of the early historic period were found in the premises of the King’s House in Jaffna fort by archaeologists of the University of Jaffna led by Prof P. Pushparatnam. The team took over digging after getting information on pottery finds when a pit was dug for toilet purposes in the King’s House premises. The disturbed rubble layer at the top had a variety of pottery of various periods, including Rouletted Ware and Amphora Ware associated with Roman times. Digging further, the Jaffna University team reached a floor level and artefacts are being excavated even below that level. From the indications at the surface, the excavators expect to reach undisturbed levels of early historic habitation in the excavation.
Jaffna City, the sea routes [Map: TamilNet]
Pieces of Rouletted Ware
Amphora jars
The trench in progress
The layer below a floor level
Rouletted Ware, a pottery of grey earth with black or red polish, having a typical potter’s mark made by an apparatus of the potter’s wheel, was an imported pottery associated with Greacco-Roman trade with South Asia. There were also imitations made probably in Bengal. The time range of the ware is between c. 2nd century BCE and c. 4th century CE.
Amphora jars of the Roman wine trade that have a tapering bottom are also artefacts of the same period.
The discovery of both the types of pottery in the disturbed layers of the Jaffna fort indicates that an early historic port city existed at the locality where the fort stands now.
Jaffna was known in pre-Portuguese Tamil inscriptions and literature as Yaazhppaa’naayan-paddinam or I-aazhppaa’naayan-paddinam. The suffix Paddinam indicates that it was a port-city even before the Portuguese building a fort there in 1560 CE. The fort was re-built by the Dutch in 1680 CE.
The importance of the port city probably made the European colonial rulers to build the fort and to make it the capital for the territories of the Tamil kingdom they conquered in the north.
Systematic excavations both extensive and deep enough inside the fort will sure reveal the pre-colonial port-city and its early historic origins, academics in Jaffna said.
The Jaffna university excavators have already reached the water table, but artefacts are found even below that. Water has to be pumped out to go further deep, the excavators said.
Artefacts associated with Roman trade are extensively found at Kantharodai in the heart of Jaffna peninsula. Some years back, hundreds of Roman coins have been found in a hoard in a site at Varani. The megalithic burial site of Anaikkoaddai is just a couple of km away from the Jaffna fort. Chaaddi, Allaippiddi and Ma’n’niththalai, where early pottery has been found are just off the Jaffna city, located at its lagoon entrance.
Even earlier, there were reports of finding Roman coins in the Jaffna fort.
Informed circles in Jaffna said that last year too Colombo’s archaeology department had dug a trench at a ground inside the fort and had found many artefacts. But details are not known.
Colombo’s archaeology in the Tamil country habitually takes the excavated material to Colombo. Reports do not come. Evidences often go ‘missing’.
The material excavated in Maanthai are in Anuradhapura and Colombo. A report is now said to be coming after 30 years. A full report of the Kantaroadai excavations of 1967 that brought to light the megalithic heritage and early urban heritage of Jaffna is still awaited.
More than academic investigation and dissemination of knowledge, importance is given only to political archaeology such as building Buddhist stupas. Alienating Tamils from their land and their heritage was always the motive behind the archaeological projection of Colombo. The archaeology department of Colombo doesn’t have any Tamil academics or officials, point out Eezham Tamil academics.
The Jaffna fort project is now funded by the Dutch government and is being carried out by the SL archaeology department. Already there is much resentment in Jaffna over the priority given to the archaeology and renovation of the fort, while people are uprooted and are living in open prisons under an occupying military.
Heritage studies of a land are a prerogative of free people of that land. Otherwise it will continue to be ‘colonial’.
But heritage is business to corporate colonialism and is politics to its local partners.
Whether because of pressure from the Dutch government or to make a show to the outside world, for the first time in decades, a Jaffna university team is allowed to participate in archaeological work, academic circles in Jaffna commented.
Work has been stopped at an earlier trench near the entrance to the fort where a skeleton has been found in the disturbed layers.
The present trench Near the King’s House is in the central part of the fort.
Professor Paramu Pushparatnam, Head of the Department of History of the University of Jaffna, did his Ph.D. in Archaeology at the Tamil University of Tanjavur under Professor Y. Subbarayalu. Much earlier, as a student of the University of Jaffna, he participated the excavation of Aanaikkoaddai in 1980 and the excavation of Maanthai in the early 1980s.
Amphora jars of the Roman wine trade that have a tapering bottom are also artefacts of the same period.
The discovery of both the types of pottery in the disturbed layers of the Jaffna fort indicates that an early historic port city existed at the locality where the fort stands now.
Jaffna was known in pre-Portuguese Tamil inscriptions and literature as Yaazhppaa’naayan-paddinam or I-aazhppaa’naayan-paddinam. The suffix Paddinam indicates that it was a port-city even before the Portuguese building a fort there in 1560 CE. The fort was re-built by the Dutch in 1680 CE.
The importance of the port city probably made the European colonial rulers to build the fort and to make it the capital for the territories of the Tamil kingdom they conquered in the north.
Systematic excavations both extensive and deep enough inside the fort will sure reveal the pre-colonial port-city and its early historic origins, academics in Jaffna said.
The Jaffna university excavators have already reached the water table, but artefacts are found even below that. Water has to be pumped out to go further deep, the excavators said.
Artefacts associated with Roman trade are extensively found at Kantharodai in the heart of Jaffna peninsula. Some years back, hundreds of Roman coins have been found in a hoard in a site at Varani. The megalithic burial site of Anaikkoaddai is just a couple of km away from the Jaffna fort. Chaaddi, Allaippiddi and Ma’n’niththalai, where early pottery has been found are just off the Jaffna city, located at its lagoon entrance.
Even earlier, there were reports of finding Roman coins in the Jaffna fort.
Informed circles in Jaffna said that last year too Colombo’s archaeology department had dug a trench at a ground inside the fort and had found many artefacts. But details are not known.
Colombo’s archaeology in the Tamil country habitually takes the excavated material to Colombo. Reports do not come. Evidences often go ‘missing’.
The material excavated in Maanthai are in Anuradhapura and Colombo. A report is now said to be coming after 30 years. A full report of the Kantaroadai excavations of 1967 that brought to light the megalithic heritage and early urban heritage of Jaffna is still awaited.
More than academic investigation and dissemination of knowledge, importance is given only to political archaeology such as building Buddhist stupas. Alienating Tamils from their land and their heritage was always the motive behind the archaeological projection of Colombo. The archaeology department of Colombo doesn’t have any Tamil academics or officials, point out Eezham Tamil academics.
The Jaffna fort project is now funded by the Dutch government and is being carried out by the SL archaeology department. Already there is much resentment in Jaffna over the priority given to the archaeology and renovation of the fort, while people are uprooted and are living in open prisons under an occupying military.
Heritage studies of a land are a prerogative of free people of that land. Otherwise it will continue to be ‘colonial’.
But heritage is business to corporate colonialism and is politics to its local partners.
Whether because of pressure from the Dutch government or to make a show to the outside world, for the first time in decades, a Jaffna university team is allowed to participate in archaeological work, academic circles in Jaffna commented.
Work has been stopped at an earlier trench near the entrance to the fort where a skeleton has been found in the disturbed layers.
The present trench Near the King’s House is in the central part of the fort.
Professor Paramu Pushparatnam, Head of the Department of History of the University of Jaffna, did his Ph.D. in Archaeology at the Tamil University of Tanjavur under Professor Y. Subbarayalu. Much earlier, as a student of the University of Jaffna, he participated the excavation of Aanaikkoaddai in 1980 and the excavation of Maanthai in the early 1980s.
Water table reached in the trench
Pottery below the water table
To update Shenali's records, I attach the para below:
Pre-historic period [edit]
The indigenous Veddhas are physically related to people in South India and early populations of Southeast Asia. It is not possible to ascertain what languages that they originally spoke as Vedda language is considered diverged from its original source.[25]
According to K. Indrapala, cultural diffusion, rather than migration of people, spread the Prakrit and Tamil languages from peninsular India into an existing Mesolithic population, centuries before the common era.[26] Tamil Brahmi and Tamil-Prakrit scripts were used to write theTamil language during this period on the island.[27]
Settlements of culturally similar early populations of ancient Sri Lanka and ancient Tamil Nadu in India were excavated at megalithic burial sites at Pomparippu on the west coast and in Kathiraveli on the east coast of the island. Bearing a remarkable resemblance to burials in the early Pandyan kingdom, these sites were established between the 5th century BCE and 2nd century CE.[24][28] Excavated ceramicsequences similar to that of Arikamedu were found in Kandarodai (Kadiramalai) on the north coast, dated to 1300 BCE. Cultural similarities in burial practices in South India and Sri Lanka were dated by archaeologists to 10th century BCE. However, Indian history and archaeology have pushed the date back to 15th century BCE. In Sri Lanka, there is radiometric evidence from Anuradhapura that the non-Brahmi symbol-bearing black and red ware occur in the 10th century BCE.[29] The skeletal remains of an Early Iron Age chief were excavated in Anaikoddai, Jaffna. The name 'Ko Veta' is engraved in Brahmi script on a seal buried with the skeleton and is assigned by the excavators to the 3rd century BCE. Ko, meaning "King" in Tamil, is comparable to such names as Ko Atan, Ko Putivira and Ko Ra-pumaan occurring in contemporary Tamil Brahmi inscriptions of ancient South India and Egypt.[30][31]
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Israel Amazing Medical Technology - email Gallege De Silva.
Beyond the Cutting Edge - Surgery in the Future
I wonder how long it will take for this technology to come to our countries.
This is REALLY AMAZING!
Truly amazing! Most operating rooms as we know them might not be needed ... sometime in the not too distant future.
The Hippopotamus and the Tortoise - email jksw
" Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed" -
NAIROBI - A baby hippopotamus that survived the
tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong
bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal
facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about
300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki
River into the Indian Ocean , then forced back to shore
when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on
December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.
"It is incredible.. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a
male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to
be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu,
who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP .
"After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized.
It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother
Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond.
They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added.
"The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother.
If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive,
as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.
"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and
by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their
mothers for four years," he explained.
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away."
This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter
much when we need the comfort of another.
We could all learn a lesson from these two creatures of God,
"Look beyond the differences and find a way to walk the path together."
Save the Earth.. it's the only planet with chocolate.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The kerala towel - email jksw
NO more Rottie..........thank you......
Short skit>>>>Might stop eating parottas!!!!
http://www.youtube.p/watch?v=MW8V6ZQ54fY
Monday, August 19, 2013
Geriatric Traffic Jam
Watch some younger drivers get frustrated when they encounter a Geriatric Traffic Jam.The old folks are trying to cross the road in an orderly fashion to get to a liquor store only to discover it’s closed. After they turn back and go some distance, the liquor Store man comes and opens the store and calls them back.While they do the third trip across the Pedestrian Crossing towards the Store, one of the old ladies drops her coins on the road and begins picking them up.The Exasperation on the faces of most of the motorists can be seen on their faces!At least a few of the motorists saw the humour in this geriatric traffic crossing.Similar funny skits, are broadcast in Australia and other Countries too.
Experts Errors of Judgement - email from jksw
''The Bomb will never go off, I speak as an expert in explosives."- - Admiral William Leahy , US Atomic Bomb Project
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power
of the atom."-- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
"Computers in the future may weigh
no more than 1.5 tons."-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe
five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country
and talked with the best people, and I can assure you
that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."-- Bill Gates, 1981
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings
to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us" -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable
commercial value. Who would pay for a message
sent to nobody in particular?"-- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea
must be feasible"-- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on
his face and not Gary Cooper" -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in
"Gone With The Wind."
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music
is on the way out"-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done
the experiment. The literature was full of examples
that said you can't do this" - - Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try
and find oil? You're crazy" -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a
permanently high plateau." - - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value" -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre , France .
"Everything that can be invented has been invented"-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
"The super computer is technologically impossible.
It would take all of the water that flows over
Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number
of vacuum tubes required." -- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
"I don't know what use any one could find
for a machine that would make copies of documents.
It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself." -- the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox."The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever
be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,"-- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
And last but not least...
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer
in their home."-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
CoMSAA reunion programme.
The 2nd
International Congress and Reunion of the
Colombo Medical School
Alumni Association (CoMSAA)
7th-8th
September 2013 at the Hotel The Blue Water, Wadduwa
Scientific Programme - 8th September 2013
9AM to 12.20 PM
8.00-9.00 Tea
9.00
Academic procession
9.05
National anthem
9.10
Lighting of the oil lamp
9.15
Welcome address by President, CoMSAA
9.25
Address by the Dean
9.35
Award of the Founder President’s Medal
9. 40
Vote of thanks
Session 1
- Chairperson : Prof. Lalitha Mendis
09.45 Dr. P Veerasingam. Some milestones in the history of the Col
Med School
10.05 Dr.
Anuruddha Abeygunasekera Beyond
Evidence-Based Medicine
10.25 Dr.
Ruvan Ekanayake. Intervention in IHD. Are we
over-acting?
Session 2
- Chairperson: Prof. A H Sheriffdeen
10.45 Dr.
Lakshman Senanayake. Gender based violence
11.05 Prof.
Saman Gunathilleke. Overdiagnosis-overtreatment
11.25 Dr.Surangani de Lanerolle. The Body in Motion
11.45
The debate
Giving detailed medical information to lay
public on mass media is counter-productive
Moderator:
Dr.Dennis Aloysius
Four
speakers. 7 minutes
each
Proposed by; Dr.
Hemantha Perera, Dr.Lalantha
Ranasinghe.
Opposed by: Dr.
Dr. B.J.C. Perera, Dr.Sarath Gamini De Silva.
At the end the leaders of the two teams
will have 3 minutes each to wind up.
Winners will be decided by the audience
by the show of hands.
12.30
Lunch
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Religion and humanity - email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai.
The world is so secular today.
If Jesus were to come in the form of a homeless man, are we ready for him?
Pastor Jeremiah Steepek (pictured above) transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was
to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning.
He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service....only 3 people out of the 7-10,000 people said hello to him.
He asked people for change to buy food.....NO ONE in the church gave him change.
He went into the sanctuary to sit down in the front of the church and was asked by the ushers if he would please sit at the back.
He greeted people to be greeted back with stares and dirty looks, with people looking down on him and judging him.
As he sat in the back of the church, he listened to the church announcements and such. When all that was done, the elders went up and were excited to introduce the new pastor of the church to the congregation.........
"We would like to introduce to you Pastor Jeremiah Steepek"....The congregation looked around clapping with joy and anticipation.....
The homeless man sitting in the back stood up.....and started walking down the aisle......the clapping stopped with ALL eyes on him....he walked up the altar and took the microphone from the elders (who were in on this) and paused for a moment....then he recited
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ (Matt 25:34-40)
After he recited this, he looked towards the congregation and told them all what he had experienced that morning...many began to cry and many heads were bowed in shame.... he then said....Today I see a gathering of people.......not a church of Jesus Christ.
The world has enough people, but not enough disciples...when will YOU decide to become disciples?
He then dismissed service until next week.......Being a Christian is more than something you claim. It's something you live by and share with others.
May you always have love to share, health to spare, and friends that care.
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