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Posted on February 14th, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala
The
73rd anniversary of independence was officially celebrated in Colombo on
February 4 with some of the accustomed pomp and pageantry associated with the
event. Faced by the still rampant Covid menace and the looming economic and
political crises, the current regime, which is still struggling to reach its
cruising altitude, couldn’t have done better in the circumstances. This is so,
particularly, in view of the fact that today the relevance of celebrating the
1948 dominion status independence to the emerging Sri Lanka is increasingly
coming into question. The independence anniversary has become a virtual political-cultural
(Excerpted from Senior DIG Edward Gunawardena’s memoirs)
It was indeed a privilege to meet and come to know Sir James Peter Obeysekera, a doyen of the Low Country aristocracy. Although the Obeysekera family was spread far and wide in the Western Province, Batadola Walawwa situated in the Gampaha District was its seat. This was the majestic residence of Sir James. With Lady Hilda Obeysekera having passed away earlier, he lived alone at Batadola. His son, J.P. Obeysekera Jnr., who was the Member of Parliament for Attanagalla and his wife, Siva, visited him frequently and attended to all his needs.
By Renuka Sadanandan
Sri Lankan-born Madushin Amarasekera wins a major architectural award in New Zealand for his inspired remodelling of a modest state house into a multi-generational family homeView(s):
It was a project very close to his heart. When he embarked on remodelling a modest 1940’s state house in Mount Roskill, Auckland into a home for his extended family, architect Madushin Amarasekera channelled a concept rather unfamiliar to his adopted country but one more common in the land of his birth and that had coloured his growing up years. Looking to create two homes under one roof, he envisaged a degree of separation yet spaces for happy co-existence between his family of four and his wife’s parents.