The Colombo Club was inaugurated more than 150 years ago by the British for English and Scottish gentlemen resident in Sri Lanka to meet, relax and recuperate. For close to a 125 years it remained the exclusive habitat for Gentlemen as ladies were precluded from becoming members. In 1995 the first lady member was admitted […]
By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Much information is available in the public domain about Deshamanya Ken Balendra (KB), the visionary Chairman of the John Keells Holdings Group (JKH) from 1990 to 2000, who recently celebrated his 81st birthday. For quite some time, I have wanted to pen a tribute to the great man but hesitated to do […]