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Ceylon's first university in memory and imagination – The Island

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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Professor Ashley Halpe, the great humanitarian I knew – II

By Rohana R. Wasala (Continued from June 19, 2021/SATMAG) Although I could have enrolled for the external degree programme as a private candidate without revealing my job on the strength of my results at the GCE AL exam alone, which I did after completing my training and after being posted to a school, I did […] ....

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LankaWeb – Shirley De Alwis: The Hand behind Peradeniya University's Designs


Posted on April 20th, 2021
KNO Dharmadasa Courtesy Thuppahi’s Blog
Shirley D’Alwis, the first University Architect, died in harness. He was working day and night to complete the job entrusted to him – the preparation of the buildings he had designed and started constructing – for the university to be shifted to its intended site in Peradeniya. After a long and protracted battle of the sites” fought in the legislature and in the media, the State Council had finally decided in September 1938 that the proposed University of Ceylon was to be a unitary and residential university and that it should be sited in the land to be acquired from the New Peradeniya Estate, a tea and rubber plantation on the lower Hantana range on the banks of Mahaveli Ganga. It was a picturesque site with the tree clad hilly terrain sloping down from the Hantana range to the river bank. ....

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