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A passing social structure found in the Peradeniya of the 1950s, was the Kulturs and the OFacs which had much to do with English being the social residence of some of Colombo society in immediate post-colonial times. Old Ceylon it was that gave the island some of the best and enduring about the human condition, […]
OLD PERADENIYA By Ernest Macintyre INTRODUCTION The Mahaweli River, 335 long, the longest river in Lanka, has its beginning in a remote village of Nuwara-Eliya District in the central hills, and ends going into the sea at the Bay of Bengal on the east coast at Trincomalee. As it passes Kandy, the main town of […]
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BY LAKSHMAN WICKRAMASINGHE
Kalakeerthi Edwin Ariyadasa, the gentleman journalist, is no more. He has left us with a legacy that is as noble as the life he led.
He was a Buddhist who knew by realization that the greatest man who ever lived was the Supreme Buddha . Ariyadasa edited a book with that title. But also being a good Buddhist, he believed and acted in ways that displayed the thinking that every other religionist had the right to practice his or her own religion and also should be respected as such.
He accepted the truism that Sri Lanka’s culture and civilization has been vitally formed and shaped for thousands of years by the central tenets of Buddhism and principles of irrigated agriculture symbolised by the conceptual but simple words “wewai dagobai-gamai pansalai”- the concept of the Tank , the Temple and Village. However, Ariyadasa also believed that if Sri Lanka is to take her place among the Community of Nations, we cannot practice the ‘frog in a well’ appr