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By Dr B. J. C. Perera Specialist Consultant Paediatrician That fantastic lady, a reputed persona grata of eminence, as well as teacher of repute who lit up the field of paediatric healthcare, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics, Deshamanya Priyani Elizabeth Soysa MBBS(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Cey), DSc (Ruhuna) Honoris causa, FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lond), FRCPCH(UK), FCCP(SL), FSLCPaed, and Fellow of […]
Prof. Hiran D. Dias passed away at the age of 89 on Feb. 28, 2023. He was born on Feb. 25, 1934 in his parental ancestral home in Panadura. His father was Charlie Dias and mother was Freda Dias. After completing his high school education at St. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia, he went to University […]
by Prof. R.P. Gunawardane A very interesting article, ‘Ceylon’s first university in memory and imagination’, by Ernest Macintyre in The Sunday Island of 12 February 2023 describing the life at University of Ceylon, Peradeniya Campus in fifties prompted me to write about the life at Peradeniya Campus in the next decade, the nineteen sixties. Macintyre […]