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Posted on February 8th, 2021
by Senaka Weeraratna
Time to re – write our history books
August 15 is the day Japan commemorates the war’s end. Soon it will be 70 years after that day in 1945 when two Atomic Bombs dropped from American planes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender. Japan lost to foes enjoying overwhelming superiority in both numbers and material. Nevertheless Japan’s entry to war in 1941 was not without significant consequences for the rest of Asia. It had redeeming features. Within a few years of Japan’s surrender in 1945 a host of leading Asian countries achieved independence from western colonial domination after centuries of abject rule. Japan’s legacy is that the people in Asia are now free.
HomeNews FeaturesTo my brother, who left an imprint on our lives To my brother, who left an imprint on our lives 19 December 2020 12:47 am - 0
My brother passed away five years ago, but still, I feel that he is living. He left behind a set of children who are like him three sons and a daughter. Though he passed away, yet his thoughts for his kith and kin is embodied in them. That is what should be of people, when they pass away, to leave their imprint, at least among his or her near relatives.
S. B. Senaratne
My brother left a stamp on the country as well when he initiated the “School Road Safety” programme as the Senior Prefect of Kingswood College, which has many firsts in the country. It was his innovative and it was done without any approval when he began to conduct the ‘Road Safety’ in front of the school with the “Prefects Court” helping him. Then after a few months, the Rover Group Master Mr. Blacker, as he was also a Rover went to the Po