Thomian Centenary Ball – Sydney 2018 – video thanks to MC Duke ...
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“THE APOLOGY IS IN” by Des Kelly It is indeed a privilege to be writing this, on behalf of every Sri Lankan who knows & loves the game of cricket, in whichever form they prefer. It is doubly the “privilege” to be someone who, at the start of my life in Australia, got to shake the hand and actually “chat” with the greatest Cricketer who ever lived, and will always be the “greatest”, Sir Donald Bradman. Globally, Cricket has been “the Sport” considered the most popular. Everyone who is anyone, has watched a game of Cricket, “somewhere”, it has been a game that has reaped benefits, too difficult to even contemplate, a game that is played everywhere, with “pol-athu” bats & cheap rubber or tennis balls, in the Ceylon I remember. On the other hand, huge “Cricket-Administrations” around the World, with the possible exemption of America, I think, have sought ...
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DAVID AND GOLIATH by Bernard VanCuylenburg. During the colonial period of the lat 1930’s, a tea plantation in the Madulkelle district Relugas Estate, was the place where what appeared to be a simple act of insubordination by an assistant superintendent, was to have far reaching consequences and wider ramifications not only for the company concerned, but for the colonial government of the time and a left leaning socialist political party called the “Lanka Sama Samaja Party”, (The Lanka Socialist Party) popularly known as the LSSP. The “David” in this case was a young assistant superintendent named Mark Bracegirdle and the “Goliath” was the government of the day – at first glance an uneven match. The Superintendent of this particular estate Mr.H.D.Thomas was badly in need of an assistant, and he petitioned the company accordingly. As was the modus operandum of the day, a young Englishman Mark Bracegirdle was recruited from ...
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Jan 17, 2018
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The Story Behind Ceylon’s Arrack The etymology of the word ‘arrack’ has always left room for some doubt ‒ partly because it has been around for a very long time. What’s more, the word is also used in different parts of South and Southeast Asia, to describe local beverages made from the fermented sap from various sources ‒ fruit, sugarcane, grain etc. ‒ depending on the country in question. In Sri Lanka, ‘arrack’ is the much-loved local drink, distilled from the sap of the coconut flower. Diverse Origins The Toddy Tappers of Sri Lanka – believed by some to be the inventors of Ceylon arrack, Sri Lanka’s much-loved local beverage. Indian philologers believed the name derived from the areca nut, a palm seed originating from India that was used in the production of multiple varieties of arrack. The Arabs, too, meanwhile, claim credit for the invention of arrack, stating that ...
