The 1962 coup – Part II A group of senior Police and Military officers attempted to overthrow the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Government. They were driven by three critical events in the years leading up to January 1962. The coup participants belonged to the Westernised urban middle class who were alarmed at the undermining of the secular […]
While the dawning of the New Year, 2022, in Melbourne, Australia, didn’t turn out to be as exciting, as one would have expected, mainly due to the Omicron virus, there was plenty of action in our scene. Although not all bands found work coming their way, DJs, I’m told, had a field day, pumping up […]
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This month’s edition of Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar, on Tuesday 30 November at 7.00 pm on the YouTube channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, makes a journey to the hill capital Kandy to the Alliance Française de Kandy. A venue of historical significance in central Sri Lanka which […]
This is an amusing incident that took place several years ago. One evening we, then schoolboys, were playing soft ball cricket at the Mahinda College grounds, when someone came rushing up and told us that a young servant girl of a certain household had climbed a huge tree as a mark of protest over some […]