Twilight Reminiscences 17- Happiness is….by Sanjiva Wijesinha Source:Sanjivawijesinha “You know, Sanjo” said my friend Devendra as we sat on the balcony recently enjoying a drink and the evening sunset, “If you had to define Happiness, it is simply being content with where one is – and being content with what one is doing at that particular moment in time”. Now Deve has been my friend for many years (a friendship spanning several decades in fact, commencing from the year we first entered the Colombo Medial School together!) and I have always been impressed by his ability to express profound thoughts in such simple words. And having over the years seen so many patients, acquaintances and friends chasing wealth, fame and position, ever looking before and after and hankering for what is not, I have realised that Deve’s observation makes perfect sense. Contentment is having the grace to accept that where one is ...
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“Return” – a Poem Source:Thomiana – S. Thomas’ College Old Boys Association Australia OBA Melbourne – Newsletter – May 2021 Some five decades ago, as co-editor of the S. Thomas’ College magazine, I wrote this poem. It was published in the magazine then under the pen-name Junius (meaning “Youthful One”) – and I felt it appropriate (now that I am a Senex!) to publish again in the Thomiana to coincide with the 170th anniversary of my old school in Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka. I glimpse afar the chapel tower – my heartbeat quickens, I hurry on. Reaching at last the trellised gate I gaze upon the cherished scene I’d longed to see. Thro’ all these years of wandering it lived with me in Memory’s store – the College that I love so well. I walk on down the curving road – echoing steps of bygone days. ...
Jun 6, 2021
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Deepa Mehta’s Movie ‚Funny Boy‘ to premiere in December – by Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha Source:Sanjiva Wijesinha I am delighted to be able to report that the iconic Oscar nominated Canadian film-maker Deepa Mehta’s latest film, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s novel Funny Boy, will premiere on Netflix in the first week of December. The rights to the movie have just been bought by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing, Shyam Selvadurai‘s debut novel was published in 1994 and set in Sri Lanka during the turbulent nineteen seventies and eighties. It opened up new ground in its portrayal of the sexual awakening of a young boy Arjie (portrayed as a small child by Arush Nand and as a teenager by Brandon Ingram). It is said that Arjie is a semi-autobiographical representation of Selvadurai himself. ...
Oct 20, 2020
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TO MASK OR UNMASK – By By Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha SOURCE:Thomiana July 2020 – S.Thomas’ OBA VIC – Newsletter The first time I visited Japan, I was surprised to see so many people wearing facemasks, of a type similar to what I used to wear when working as a surgeon in the operating theatre. It seemed so incongruous to see so many folk walking through the busy streets with their faces covered, scurrying to catch trains and browsing around the supermarkets. When I asked my daughter (who at the time had been working in Japan for the past few years) what this was all about, she explained this as another manifestation of what it means to be Japanese – to care more about the society and the community one lives in rather than one’s own self. ...
Aug 1, 2020
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