Please allow me some space to make a brief response to S A R’s comments, published in The Island on the 5th May 2021. There was a time when initials were so well known, that it was possible to identify the person from his/her initials. JR and DS come to mind.
1″ From the content and tone of the article I can easily guess on whose behalf he wrote it”
Remarkable intuition!!
Let me assure S A R that I am not a foreign agent or spy or whatever. I am proudly Sri Lankan. I was born here. My parents were born here. My children were born here.
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Hooker Ansar Buksh did Kandy SC and Sri Lanka proud Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The game of rugby which is played globally is a tough body contact game. Some of the players who played in the past took to the game because their friends and relatives handled the oval shaped ball. Mohamed Ansar Buksh was one of them who hailed from a family of ruggerites, who played the game for the love and passion reaching great heights.
Ansar had two nicknames as his family called him ‘Anchu’ and the rest called him ‘Anju’ especially in his normal life and in sporting circles. He was born in 1977, Allowdeen Buksh was his father who passed away in 2007 and mother is Doreen Buksh and has three siblings. His father was an old boy of Zahira College, Gampola and played hockey there. He joined the Sri Lanka Navy as a Chief Engineer later retired and joined the Royal Navy in Oman. His younger brother Amjad was a Kingswoodian who donned the College, Club and National jers
No Comment and Don’t Quote Me On That Un, From the sublime to the hilarious
The United Nations is an institution mired in politics focusing primarily on military conflicts, civil wars, economic sanctions, peacekeeping, plus sustainable economic development.
But there is also a lighter side to it, which is brilliantly laid out in a new book released last week on Amazon titled
“No Comment and Don’t Quote Me on That.”
It takes years to write a good book, and in this insightful memoir, Thalif Deen, a former UN Bureau Chief and Regional Director at Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency, gives us a riveting memoir filled with observations that come from 40-years of stalking the halls and corridors of the ‘glasshouse by the East River’.
Cassandra often disparages Sri Lankans’ apparently inherent traits which are not so good, sometimes even derogatory. One such is closing the door once the horse has fled and then flapping around merely screeching. Another is belated reaction and too late action which Cass’ belly aches about today.
That endangered tree
After that intrepid fauna and flora saver Devanee Jayathilake brought to the notice of highway constructors the fact they were about to destroy a fast disappearing species of endemic tree – Curdia zelanica – environmentalists rallied forth to swell her cry of Stop Cutting Down! These true national-minded folk interested in saving our fauna and flora in the face of ever increasing grabbing of forests and wetlands and rape of trees, have proved themselves to be genuine and ready to face powerful politicians or their favoured sidekicks and patrons. (I do not include among these dedicated environmentalists ex-Prez Sirisena, who is now very interested in saving
Roderic Grigson was Asia Pacific Vice President for Novell, a global networking company, working in Melbourne Australia until he retired from corporate life to become a full-time writer. He worked at the United Nations Secretariat in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s as a technology innovations officer, serving in UN peacekeeping forces in the Middle East. He is the author of Sacred Tears, The Sullen Hills and After the Flames, a trilogy of thrillers set in war-torn Sri Lanka, and is currently working on his fourth book.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb 18 2021 (IPS) - The United Nations is an institution mired in politics focusing primarily on military conflicts, civil wars, economic sanctions, peacekeeping, plus sustainable economic development.