Bringing their brand of Bharatanatyam back home
Celebrated as one of the youngest male Bharatanatyam dancers in the world, it will be a poignant homecoming for Batticaloa-born Mohanapriyan Thavarajah whose love for dance emerged while schooling at St. Michael’s College though he never saw it as his future career at the time. This April, Sri Lankan audiences will have the chance to [...]
Walking the talk of sustainable creativity
Insiya Jafferjee is CEO and co-founder of the London-based Shellworks which specialises in creating sustainable packaging solutions. Using seafood waste at the onset of its operations, primarily discarded lobster shells, designers at Shellworks were able to engineer a series of machines which convert this waste into a bioplastic, a sustainable alternative material to single use [...]
Letters to the Editor
The state of the country today and looking back at an era of principled men and women H.B.W. Abeynaike’s tribute to D.R. Wijewardene on his 136th birth anniversary on February 23 published in the Plus section not only provided good reading, it helped to recall many interesting events of an era in which our country [...]
APPRECIATIONS
A man in a million, Thaththi taught us many lessons in life A.D.H. Samaranayaka March 22 marks the 100th birth anniversary of our beloved Thaththi – Aluthge Dharmadasa Hemachandra Samaranayaka, fondly known as ADH or Samare to his friends. He passed away peacefully during his afternoon nap on March 30, 1996, aged 74 years. Our [...]
My father the artist
My father was an extraordinary man. During his lifetime he painted dozens of startlingly original, vibrant and (at times) surreal paintings: untitled, undated, unsigned and unframed. He painted on cardboard, hardboard, plywood, canvas or on any other material he could lay his hands on. He nailed these to the wall and painted beautiful pictures that [...]
Coming of age in colonial Ceylon
Not many can impart insights into life as a student of three renowned schools in Sri Lanka but Ranjit Ameresekere who studied at S. Thomas’ College, Royal College and Wesley College does so in his ‘Memories of my Ceylon Schooldays’. The book, recently released, is an autobiographical account chronicling his days as a schoolboy in [...]
Art, books and more at Adahas Pola
It proved to be a very vibrant Colombo 7 spin on the bustling village marketplace when Shaan Corea of Appe Lanka hosted ‘Adahas Pola: Celebrating the People of Sri Lanka’ at Maniumpathy on Saturday, March 5 with artistic events happening by the pool, in the study, the foyer, the front garden and the serene shade [...]
Restore Hope Project donates surgical equipment to LRH
The Tarana Foundation donated orthopaedic surgical and medical equipment worth over Rs. 4.6 million to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital Operating Theatre on March 15 under their Restore Hope Project. The Hospital’s subspecialty unit of Paediatric Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Theatre is urgently in need of equipment to perform the full spectrum of paediatric orthopaedic surgery [...]
Girl Guides SL is 105!
Tomorrow, March 21, the Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association (SLGGA), the largest female youth movement in Sri Lanka marks 105 years of service to the nation. The Girl Guides movement helps young women to build their self-confidence and provides its members dynamic, flexible and values-based training in life skills, leadership and citizenship. Founded by Lord [...]