A yellow ship When I ride towards Negombo from Ja-Ela I had seen this place called Wishmitha Handicraft which produces wooden miniature sailing ships. Today I thought of exploring the shop. It is full of sailing ships of different colors and sizes. The proprietor and the creator is a guy called Liyanage Sumedha. He has ships in a price range ...
Reblogged from Nandasiri Wanninayaka: "I had drawn this picture some 10 odd years ago with the intention of sending it to Mr. Nelson Mandela when I was a schoolboy and him, a prisoner. But somehow or the other this picture went missing. Recently when I was searching for something else, i accidentally found this in one of my old ...
Betel Stain When considered with most of the other nations in the region, Sri Lankans are more lawful (not everyone is a Pradesheeya Sabha member) and educated… er… at least we have a far better literacy rate. They can be made to obey the rules. We could see this when attempts were taken by the government to make the Colombo ...
Realty Plaza, Ja Ela Realty Plaza is the first and only shopping mall in Ja-Ela. This is built and operated by Ceylinco Group. This is quite new and spacious. (This was opened in 2007.) It has 4 floor levels. The place is not filled to its full capacity as few shops are yet to be occupied. The mall has a ...
Jayaweera Jayasundara with the villages of Koradekumbura Having learnt from my good friend Mr. Daya Wijesinghe from Kandana, that there is a small rural mountainous hamlet in Badulla district, which runs a very successful program of a whole village getting together to do physical exercises and karate practices, I decided to go and see for myself this village. It was ...
Wings of Fire Book Cover I bought Wings of Fire while returning from India once as I was keen on reading about India’s foremost nuclear scientist, “the Missile Man of India,” Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam (Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam.) The book is an autobiography of former President of India, Dr. Kalam. It was written collectively by Dr. ...
I started my blog somewhere in 2007. By now there are over 77,000 hits for it. That is not a big number of hits for an active blog. That is not a bad number either. I don’t get that many comments though. But I do get a considerable number of telephone calls. I have put my contact details in the ...
Abhilash, my four year old son had to undergo an abdominal scan due to a small disorder he had. He was curious what it was. He kept asking what it was like and I told him that it is something very simple and painless test done with a computer. My wife also had earlier shown him some scans that were ...
I’m not sure if I will make myself unpopular by writing my third article at a stretch (1. Government Hospitals in Sri Lanka 2. A Cleaner Colombo) giving credit to the government, if not praising it. I have to write what I see. There are hundreds of people who write against the government and I don’t think it is wrong ...
Meer Ali and Nanda Wanninayaka at Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka In August, 2016 I finished a 5-day-long motorcycle journey with Meer Ali, the first volunteer for Horizon Lanka from India. This was the longest sojourn I embarked on a bike so far. It was high fun riding the bike through all those cities, towns and villages with Meer Ali, my ...
Jurassic World Poster I watched Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World movie at Savoy 3D cinema last Wednesday with my son Abhilash and my wife. Abhilash loves Jurassic Park franchise. He has repeatedly watched all three past installments in DVDs and can identify most of the dinosaur species by name. He loves to groan like Tyrannosaurus Rex and pounce on us. His ...
Maharaja – Diwan Jarmani Dass The Book “Maharaja’ was written by Diwan Jarmani Dass. He was born in Punjab in 1895, was a minister in the Indian princely states of Kapurthala and Patiala. He was well-verse in Punjabi, Urdu, English and French. He was highly decorated by the Vatican and the Governments of France, Spain, Morocco, Egypt and many other countries. ...
Reblogged from Rakhee Ghelani: It had been 18 months since I had been outside of India. That's a long time, and to be honest I didn't think going to Sri Lanka was really going to be a big change from what had become normality to me, after all at some points there is only 30 kilomtres separating Tamil Nadu ...
The Village in the Jungle The story of Village in the Jungle is full of acrimony. It is disgusting to see that human beings are subjected to such levels of torture and misery by their own neighbors and the administrators. Unfortunately the story of the novel is not unique only to Baddegama. It is the story of the rural Sri ...
Abhilash with the laptop I am with Abhilash now for the whole month. No more boarding houses. No more weekend visits. I am fully Abhi’s now. I said goodbye to my friend Ranjith and came to stay with the family for good. I made it a point not to take my office laptop home as I thought it would reduce ...
