The face behind a no-holds-barred book Source:Sundaytimes Of Sri Lankan origin, Beverley Pinder who was here to launch her autobiography talks to Kumudini Hettiarachchi Beverley Pinder in Colombo. Pic by M.A. Pushpa Kumara Imagine British business magnate Sir Richard Branson straddling an elephant and riding the streets of busy Melbourne in Australia! This is what happened in the 1970s long before his fame-gain through the Virgin Group, dubbed an “irresistible” brand which is in many diverse sectors now, from travel to telecommunications, health to banking and music to leisure. The woman, however, behind that famous elephant-ride was none other than Beverley Pinder of Sri Lankan origin who had emigrated to Australia with her family as a girl of 13. This week Beverley who calls herself “not beautiful but may be exotic in a manner” is here in Sri Lanka to launch her frank and no-holds-barred book, ‘Pride without Prejudice – ...
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Ringing in the New Year with precious gifts from the Bell family-By Kumudini Hettiarachchi Source:Sundaytimes H.C.P. Bell’s great-grandson Andrew was here from England to hand over valuable volumes authored by Sri Lanka’s ‘Father of Archaeology’ to the Royal Asiatic Society They came bearing gifts of immense value to Sri Lanka. The great-grandson of the iconic first-ever Commissioner of Archaeology of colonial Ceylon attempted to bring these gifts in mid-December by checking in one suitcase as hold luggage. The airline requirement was that one bag could hold only 32kg, but his suitcase weighed 39kg…….and so Andrew “took out a whole pile” and carried them in his backpack all the way from England to Sri Lanka! “They were very heavy,” he laughs, the task accomplished and the precious gifts handed over to the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) at the Mahaweli Centre on December 15. Andrew, the great-grandson of Sri Lanka’s ‘Father of ...
Jan 6, 2024
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Talking about Oral History Work on Ceylon in the 1960s-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Adilah Ismail in the Sunday Times, 7 June 2015, where the title is “Colourful history of a historian” … with highlighting imposed by the Editor Thuppahi viz, Roberts himself Looking back on his ‘going-down memory lane interviews’ with retired Britishers and Sri Lankans who served mainly in the Ceylon Civil Service, Michael Roberts who was in Sri Lanka recently, talks to Adilah Ismail about the beginnings of a passion. ...
Oct 23, 2023
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