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Showing posts with label Sri Lanka.. Show all posts
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Monday, June 20, 2016
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Memories of the get togethers, 1960 entrants, Medical Faculty, Kynsey Rd., Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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| 25th Anniversary get together, Hotel Topaz, Kandy. |
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| Inside the concrete Dagoba, Kothmale - 25 th Anniversary get together. |
Younger and full of smiles.
I am sure you are smiling too, on seeing these photos - PGV.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Seetha Eliya, Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka agrees to provide land for Sita TempleBhopal: Deshdeep Saxena TNN May 17, 2016 Madhya Pradesh government will soon start the construction of a grand temple of Sita, wife of Lord Rama, in Sri Lanka at the place where she underwent agni pariksha (an ordeal of fire). The island nation has agreed to provide a piece of land for the purpose.An ambitious project of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, it has been hanging fire for the last five years. In the past, Chouhan himself had visited the places in the island nation associated with mythological characters of Rama and Sita. In the last week of April, a top bureaucrat of MP government visited Sri Lanka to finalise various issues related to the temple, including its architectural design among others. RSS leader Ram Madhav has also been evincing keen interest in the project, government sources claimed. Chouhan had first proposed the project in September 2012 when the then Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Sanchi to inaugurate University of Buddhist-Indic Studies.
The temple is likely to be constructed at Divurumpola, a place which the Sri Lankan government claims to be the site where Sita underwent the agni pariksha. During the recent visit of Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena to Simhastha in Ujjain and later to Sanchi on May 14, the chief minister discussed the issue again. "The government is still working on various issues like who would maintain the temple after its construction is over. It is likely to be maintained by India Foundation, an organisation with which RSS leader Ram Madhav is involved," sources claimed
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
The Sacred Tooth-Relic of Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Sri Dalada Maligawa – Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
Kandy Perahera - Esala Perahera, Sri Lanka
https://youtu.be/Q6jQwnwQy2gFriday, April 15, 2016
Kumar Sangakkara, the dazzling, kind perfectionist
In
many minds, Sanga leads the world all time , though Bradman sticks out
high.
In Sanga’s last few innings, he repeatedly gave displays of cat and mouse
with the bowlers,
even
producing strokes he had never attempted before.
The following is told with
affection by his coach, Paul Farbrace
jksw
Kumar Sangakkara, the dazzling, kind perfectionist Sri Lanka cricket will miss like mad - Paul Farbrace salutes the retiring hero in Wisden
By Paul Farbrace
“What do you think? How’s it looking?” It was another practice
session at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, and Kumar Sangakkara was as inquisitive
and conscientious as ever. And very precise. He wanted his back foot to move
from middle and leg to middle and off. Not forward or back – just a fraction
across, which allowed his shoulders and hips to align when facing right-arm
seamers.
I was in the first of two coaching stints with Sri Lanka, as an
assistant to Trevor Bayliss (a few years later I would return as head coach),
and was doing my best to keep on top of the session. But I could see Sanga was
hitting the ball nicely. “Brilliant,” I told him. “No problems
whatsoever.”
He was unimpressed with my forensic analysis. “The first 10 balls
I faced, I moved my back foot in four or five different ways,” he said. “If I
ever ask you again, tell me the truth or don’t tell me anything.” It was a big
lesson for me as a coach. And it told me plenty about Kumar
Sangakkara.
One of Sanga’s first deeds after I arrived was to make 192 at
Hobart after Australia had set us 507. We made 410, and Sanga was given out by
Rudi Koertzen, caught at slip off shoulder and helmet: a stinker. That night we
were in the hotel bar when the umpires walked in. There was a pause, then Sanga
stepped forward: “Rudi! What can I get you to drink?”
If that was typical of him, so
was the way in which he used that innings to get even better. Over a
year later – by which stage he already had more than 6,000 Test runs – we were
in the indoor school at Colombo’s SSC. Sanga couldn’t quite get his movements
right, so he asked our analyst to access footage of the Hobart innings. He
wanted to check the movement of his left foot in relation to Brett Lee’s
delivery stride. Once he’d absorbed the information he needed, he was ready to
bat again.
Nothing distracted him from his practice. There were times when,
frankly, this made him a pain in the backside. Net sessions could last anything
from 20 minutes to an hour. When he was wearing his game head, there was a
selfishness about him. But no one minded, because that selfishness was usually
for the greater good.
Every coach who worked with him knew you ended up needing
reconstructive shoulder surgery. And your throwdowns had to be accurate. I was
giving him a few at Sydney, and in the previous game he’d missed a couple of
square-drives, so I thought I’d throw one or two a little wider. He left the
first alone, and just looked at me. When I did the same again a few balls
later, he stared back, then walked straight past me and into the dressing room.
We never mentioned it again, but I got the message.
Despite being an outsider, I was always made to feel welcome. The
number of dinners he and Mahela paid for got a bit embarrassing, but that’s the
Sri Lankan way. I remember how well they looked after some of the Yorkshire
lads when they were on a training camp in Sri Lanka. His wife, Yehali, cooked
dinner one night and a few of us were invited over. He and Andrew Gale, whom
he’d never met before, spent two hours talking about being left-handers – how
to hit over the top, how to deal with the rough and the swinging ball and
different angles of attack. Sanga won’t thank me for saying this, but he’s a
proper cricket badger.
He put his considerable brain to good use, though it was better if
you weren’t on the receiving end. If he was ever in danger of losing an
argument (which I believe is yet to happen), he would adopt one of two tactics:
speak more loudly, or use words you’d never heard of. He would dazzle you into
submission. No wonder he once trained to be a lawyer.
His best sledge was aimed at Nasser Hussain in Sri Lanka in
2003-04, when England were playing in Kandy. Nasser had called Murali – the
hometown hero – various names, so the locals weren’t best pleased. And it’s
fair to say Nasser was a bit grumpy with his own team-mates too. When he came
in to bat, Sanga piped up with: “What’s it like to be hated by both teams?” It
wasn’t abusive, but he knew how to get under your skin.
When I left Sri Lanka to join England in 2014, I wasn’t very
comfortable about the fact that my first series was against my old team. A few
people had accused me of leaving for the money, which was never the case, but
Sanga broke the ice ahead of the opening international of the tour, a Twenty20
match at The Oval. As I was walking up the steps to the pavilion, he was at the
top. There were quite a few journalists waiting around, and he shouted down:
“Traitor! Traitor’s here. Don’t talk to him, boys.”
That was Sanga to a
T: he was mischievous, quick-witted and charming, and everyone loved him for
it. Sri Lankan cricket will miss him like mad.
Paul Farbrace, England’s assistant coach, was assistant coach of
Sri Lanka between 2007 and 2009 and head coach in 2013-14
The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2016, edited by Lawrence Booth, is published by Bloomsbury (£50). To order your copy for £39.99 with free p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Freshers' welcome at the Medical Faculty, Kynsey road, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Piyusha Atapattu shared Milan Sanda Sri's post.
Freshers Welcome Music Video.
(a 'continuous shoot' style video)
(a 'continuous shoot' style video)
Music video
created for freshers welcome 2016, Faculty of Medicine -Batch 2013-
YOUTUBE.COM
PS
Welcome change from 1960 when a friend, had half his MUSTACHE shaved and had to go home to Wellawaththe, by bus.
Philip G V
Monday, March 21, 2016
Friday, March 18, 2016
Reid brothers, Sri Lanka.
The photo of the Reid brothers has not come up.
Recall, Ronald was outstanding bat for St. Thomas 1956 or so.
Buddy and Ronald played for Ceylon in the 1960s.
Buddy was Ceylon Table Tennis Champ as well.
Working as intern in his first
year at Ridgeway Childrens hospital 1965, for the first time ever Buddy took to
Badmington with us. He said he never ever played it before.
From the first day, he was better than any of us.
The Health Dept Sports meet was due in a couple of months.
We got him to contest. He trained; improved with each game.
Soon we got him to play
against two at once( R.S. Thiagaraja and me)!
At the meet too he improved with each game. He had that
impossibly late long reach return, forte of his table tennis.
At the finals, he lost the first two to the reigning champ; but
improving yet further, he fought it out to the last, losing 2/3.
He was runner up.
Given another half day of practice, he would have won.
(R.S. and I were no slouches, being doubles runners up!)
Bet modest buddy (b simple)has forgotten all this by now!
Susiri Weerasekera.
By Corinne King, the daughter of the late Mr. D.N. Pereira
The “unveiling of that
epic photo” of the 5 Reid brothers was taken on the 30th September
2012 by my husband - Ian, who when he requested the 5 Reid brothers to come
over to stand in front of the College flag, it was mentioned by them all that -
(a) they had never stood together as 5 brothers in
a group,
(b) they had never had a photograph taken of
themselves in front of the STC Flag
AND
(c) ironically, they all automatically
walked towards the flag in order of age and stood in order of age from the
eldest Claude to the youngest Johann (Tiny). The order being Left to
Right: - Claude, Ronnie, Buddy, Barney & Tiny
There definitely was a
first in more ways than one and it was such a wonderful idea of my husband -
Ian King - to initially think of getting all the 5 brothers together as it was
quite a rare event to see them all attend any STC function.
This was the Charity
Lunch function organized by Barney to sponsor a young lad at STC who was a
budding cricketer!
So very happy that the
photo is now proudly displayed in the Sports Pavilion at College.
Congratulations to
Milinda Hettiarachchi for expediting this situation which became an “epic”
event to display an “epic” photo for all time!!
I am also attaching
for good measure that “epic” photo!!
Esto Perpetua,
The Island : Sunday 6 March 2016.
The Reid brothers made
a huge impact representing S. Thomas’ College. Mount Lavinia in cricket in
1960s and the school unveiled a photograph of the five brothers at the pavilion
of the cricket ground yesterday during the second XI fixture of the Royal –
Thomian. Claude, Ronnie, Buddie, Barney and Johann all played for S. Thomas’
with distinction. Johann, the youngest passed away two years ago. The other
four brothers were present at the ceremony that took place during the tea break
of yesterday’s play. The Warden of S. Thomas’ Rev. Marc Billimoria was present
at the occasion.
Photo below - Reid brothers at STC Charity lunch, 30th Sept 2012
Best regards
Dawood
Saturday, February 27, 2016
The majestic worker, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Pictures sent by a member of the 1960 Colombo medical entrants batch, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Friday, February 12, 2016
Geoffrey Bawa, Architect, Sri Lanka.
Bawa
was/ yet is an icon among architects. Internationally.
jksw
Subject: Fwd: Geoffrey Bawa a Sri Lanka ICON
The
Ruhuna University was designed by him
http://theculturetrip.com/asia/sri-lanka/articles/geoffrey-bawa-the-father-of-sri-lankan-architecture/
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Tales from the Muslim World of Sri Lanka.
Email from Lesley Sirimanne
Legend along Littoral Landscapes: -
Tales from the Muslim world of Sri Lanka.
Legend along Littoral Landscapes: -
Tales from the Muslim world of Sri Lanka.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
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