Posted on January 10th, 2021
C. Wijeyawickrema, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., M.A., Ph.D.
Dear
Mr. Austin Fernando:
Thank
you very much for your response (Jan. 2) to my previous essay titled, Attempts to
exhume the provincial council cadaver: a reply to Mr. Austin Fernando,”
(Lankaweb, Dec. 31). However, I am not happy with your decision to stop our
exchange, because it appears to me that you did miss my message. The attachment
to my message in Sinhala is simple and clear, and it identified you as a
devolution” thief. You are a cool disciple of the boisterous Dayan Jayatilleke,
in a different
Tropical cyclone Burevi slammed into Sri Lanka's eastern coast on Wednesday night and was expected to damage coastal buildings and power lines, as well as unleash flash floods, officials at the meteorological department said.
D.B.S.Jeyaraj
‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a drama written in verse by the great poet, essayist and playwright Thomas Stearnes Eliot known to the literary world as T.S. Eliot. It is based on the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in December 1170 during the reign of King Henry II. Eliot had relied heavily on the eyewitness account of the murder by a monk Edward Grim published later.
‘’Murder in the Cathedral,’
I first came across TS Eliot’s ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ when I was a student at Jaffna College, Vaddukkoddai. The Chief librarian Sebaratnam Thambiah was an aficionado of drama who often produced and directed plays. Trying to stage ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ was one of his ambitious ventures. A few of us students and some teachers were roped in and given copies of the verse drama. I liked it very much then. We attended a few rehearsals but the project never got off the ground. However the abortive attempt helped instil in me
Eastern Province (EP) Governor Anuradha Yahampath today requested the public not to visit the Trincomalee District except for a matter of urgency.
She said the decision was taken following the district health sector had identified an alarming surge of COVID-19 spread.
The Governor also urged the public to strictly restrict travelling during the upcoming holidays.
The above decision was taken at the Provincial Committee meeting where the Governor and other officials gathered to take appropriate steps to prevent the rapid spreading of coronavirus.
Moreover, the Governor instructed the security forces to implement a special security plan in Trincomalee within the next two weeks and advised them to strictly enforce the law against anyone who violates the Quarantine Act.
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