Monday 26th June, 2023 It has been revealed before the COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises) recently that Sathosa suffered a loss of about six billion rupees due to rice imports in 2015 because most of the stocks of imported rice had to be sold as animal feed at extremely low prices. These losses are passed […]
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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 […]
Mudliyar M. Seeman Fernando Sri Chandrasekera, more popularly known in his time, as Singho Appu Baasunnahe, was a man of a humble beginings. By sheer single minded perseverance, he rose from rags to fabulous riches. One of his daughters became the wife of Dr. W. A. de Silva, the national hero and builder of “Sravasti”. And among his grandchildren were Sir Susantha de Fonseka, one time Deputy Speaker of the State Council, Miss Cissy Cooray of Mahila Samithi fame, and Mrs. H. W. Amarasuriya.
Singho Appu Baasunnahe, later to become Mudliyar Sri Chandrasekera, munificent philanthropist, was born in the village of Horetuduwa, in Moratuwa. He began his adult life as a maker of the tea chests. (He was very proud of his humble beginnings, and would recount incidents from his early life with enormous delight.) As his business expanded and the money started coming in, he began to buy land for his requirements of timber for his industry. This was at the time that European planters of the B