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Sri Lankan Literary Society
United Kingdom
Приєднався 11 жов 2021
We are a group of people of Sri Lankan Origin. We formed this Society in 2009 to educate ourselves through presentations from our own members and invited speakers. Although there is a strong literary bias, the topics covered are wide ranging.
Our original membership was from North West and North Wales of the United Kingdom. Since 2020, our meetings are on Zoom platform and the membership expanded globally.
Please visit our web site to find out more about past and future meetings. All meetigs are free to attend.
Our original membership was from North West and North Wales of the United Kingdom. Since 2020, our meetings are on Zoom platform and the membership expanded globally.
Please visit our web site to find out more about past and future meetings. All meetigs are free to attend.
SLLS 116: The Genius of Karunaratne Abeysekera
12.11.2023 at 1300 UK/1830 Sri Lankan time
Lecture by Dr Upul Wijayawardhana MB,BS; MD; FCCP; FACC
Dr Wijayawardhana is a well known cardiologist who served Sri Lanka for 23 years, culminating his career as the senior cardiologist at the Institute of Cardiology in Colombo, in 1987. After moving to the UK, he served as a cardiologist at Grantham Hospital for another 20 years.
His acquiantance with Mr Karunaratne Abeysekera began in the mid '50s, when he started attending the popular children's radio programme Saraswathi Mandapaya.
Lecture by Dr Upul Wijayawardhana MB,BS; MD; FCCP; FACC
Dr Wijayawardhana is a well known cardiologist who served Sri Lanka for 23 years, culminating his career as the senior cardiologist at the Institute of Cardiology in Colombo, in 1987. After moving to the UK, he served as a cardiologist at Grantham Hospital for another 20 years.
His acquiantance with Mr Karunaratne Abeysekera began in the mid '50s, when he started attending the popular children's radio programme Saraswathi Mandapaya.
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SLLS 115: Intelligent Design as Proof of Creation
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by Dr Uditha Jayatunga Uditha Jayatunga (MBBS, FRCP) is a senior consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine with experience over 20 years currently working at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust. He was the Associate Clinical Director in Rehabilitation Medicine Department and previously been a member of NHS England Rehabilitation Medicine Clinical Reference Group. He has got an intere...
SLLS 114: THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS OF BUDDHIST RITUALS IN DISEASE
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Sri Lankan Literary Society meeting no: 114 by Dr Prasanna Cooray MBBS, MSc, PGD (Medical Sociology), PGD (Health Economics) Sunday, 11th June 2023 at 1400 UK/1830 SL time Dr Prasanna Cooray is a medical doctor, a social health specialist and a writer. He had worked as a Regional Epidemiologist, a university lecturer in community medicine, international public health manager and a health editor...
SLLS 112: Masks and Mythology of Sri Lanka
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Date: 23/04/2023 Speaker: Dr Premasiri Mapalagama. Premasiri is a Consultant Histopathologist, working at the Ratnapura Teaching Hospital. In addition to being a doctor, Premasiri has several interests. Here, he is talking about his interest in Sri Lankan traditional masks and mythology. He is an avid bird photographer as well. He had authored several books; medical books such as චර්ම වේද පද මා...
SLLS 107: Reflections by Frederica Jansz-The Formidable Woman of Lanka
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Sunday, 29th January 2023 at 1700 GMT/1830 SL/0900 EST Frederica is a former editor in Chief of the 'Sunday Leader' newspaper, TV Producer, a legal expert, policy researcher and an interior designer. Currently, she resided in the USA.
SLLS 111: An Evening with Dayan Witharana
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Sunday, 26th March 2023 at 1400 UK/1830 SL time Dayan is a professional photographer. He is also an acclaimed singer. ඩැෆඩිල් මලේ, දැයම පුබුදුවාලු (about Gangodawila Soma Thero), ඇල්ලෙන් නාලා with Nirosha Virajini and නමක් නොදන්නා මලක් with Deepika Priyadharshini are some of his popular songs. He is a film actor as well.
SLLS 110: The Legacy of Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008)
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Sunday, 19th March 2023 at 1300 UK/1830 SL time Speaker: Dr Kavan Ratnatunga PhD Dr Kavan Ratnatunga has a 1983 Ph.D. from Australian National University, His 25-year career in Astrophysical research continued at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton and ended at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Career highlights include the First in-situ sample of Field Halo K-giants in Galacti...
SLLS 109: Reflections on Higher Education in Sri Lanka
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Speaker: Prof Panduka Karunanayake Professor Panduka Karunanayake is a specialist in General (Internal) Medicine, with an interest in clinical infectious disease. He has published original research on leptospirosis, dengue, visceral leishmaniasis, and brucellosis. Panduka is a SEDA Recognised Teacher and has won the Faculty’s Teacher Excellence Award. In the past he has been chairperson of the ...
SLLS 108: Merging Western and Eastern Styles of Singing-the good, the bad and the happy middle path
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Presenter: Dr Nilanka Wickremasinghe Dr. Nilanka Wickramasinghe nee Munesinghe, graduated from Colombo Medical faculty in 2013 with 2nd Upper Class Honours. She joined the department of Physiology at Colombo Medical Faculty in 2018 as a Lecturer in Physiology and completed her Master’s in Human Nutrition & Post graduate certificate in Medical Education from the University of Colombo in 2019. Sh...
SLLS 105 Science Parks in Cambridge & Sri Lanka by Dr John Porter PhD
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Date: Sunday, 4th of December 2022 Time: 1410 GMT/1940 SL time Dr John Porter is an experienced Project Manager leading bids and development of Contact and Data Centres within the UK and worldwide. He had managed projects for BT, Philips Radio Systems, Trinidad Telephone Co, Enterprise Architect and other tech companies. Currently, he is working as an independent consultant specializing in teac...
SLLS 104: Playwriting and Theatre Skills Interactive Workshop Pt 1 by Jaika Witana
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Date: Sunday, 27th November at 1300hrs Dr Jaika Witana is an audiovestibular physician by profession. He has been writing plays since 2019. He is an alumnus of The Birmingham Reparatory Theatre and The New Earth Theatre. He has participated in two ‘Rapid Playwriting’ festivals, in which playwriters are required to write a 30 min play in 6 hours, practice it and stage it the next day evening. In...
SLLS 103: වනේ අලි, ගමේ අලි, රටේ අලි by Aruna Botejue, Director of Wildlife and Sameera Weerathunga
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Date: Sunday, 6th off November Time: 1300 UK/1830 SL time Aruna Botejue: Hon Director of Wildlife for Puttlan region. He worked as a plantation manager for 30 Years, EHe is eperience in vegetables minor crop farming and fruit cultivation. He completed Higher Certificate in Wild Life Conservation and Management. He has researched on elephant behaviour and birds of Wilpattu and the Northern Provi...
SLLS 102: A Musical Evening with Harsha Makalande
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Date: Sunday, 23rd October 2022 Time: 1400 UK/ 1830 SL Zoom meeting Veteran jazz pianist and award-winning composer, Harsha Makalande, is also the great grandson of the influential Sri Lankan playwright, John De Silva. After leaving Ananda College in 1976, Harsha entered the professional world of music in Sri Lanka and studied music under the veteran jazz pianist Cecil Rodrigo. He played for ba...
SLLS 94: අද්යතන සිංහල සිනමාවේ අනාගතය සහ අභියෝග (Challenges to the Contemporary Sinhala Cinema)
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සිනමාවේදී නුවන් ජයතිලක සමග කතිකාවක්. නුවන් නව පරපුරේ සිනමා අධ්යක්ෂවරයෙකි. ඔහුගේ සිනමා කෘතිය 'සුළඟ අපි රැගෙන යාවි', ජාත්යන්තර සම්මාන දෙකක් දිනා ගෙන ඇත. නුවන් දැනට ජීවත් වන්නේ ලන්ඩනයේ ය. මේ කතිකාවේ දී ඔහු එංගලන්තයේ සහ ලංකාවේ සිනමාව ගැන විග්රහයක් කරයි.
SLLS 101: Can SL Cycle out of the Current Situation? by Dr Lalith Chandrakantha
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SLLS 101: Can SL Cycle out of the Current Situation? by Dr Lalith Chandrakantha
SLLS 97: Ancient Hydraulic Civilization of Sri Lanka
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SLLS 97: Ancient Hydraulic Civilization of Sri Lanka
SLLS 100: Scientific View of Our Universe.
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SLLS 100: Scientific View of Our Universe.
SLLS 99: Special Commemoration Programme for QEII
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SLLS 99: Special Commemoration Programme for QEII
SLLS 93: Uncovering Musical Histories in South Asia by Dr Eshantha Peiris PhD
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SLLS 93: Uncovering Musical Histories in South Asia by Dr Eshantha Peiris PhD
SLLS 91:Anagarika Dharmapala: Vision for a Global Buddhism by Prof Asanga Tilakaratne
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SLLS 91:Anagarika Dharmapala: Vision for a Global Buddhism by Prof Asanga Tilakaratne
SLLS 90: Politics of a Rainforest: Sinharaja Story by Dr Prasanna Cooray
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SLLS 90: Politics of a Rainforest: Sinharaja Story by Dr Prasanna Cooray
SLLS 89 Do we live upside down? How maps shape our worldviewby Rochana Jayasinghe.
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SLLS 89 Do we live upside down? How maps shape our worldviewby Rochana Jayasinghe.
SLLS 88: Sinhala Buddhist & Christian Immigrants in an around London
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SLLS 88: Sinhala Buddhist & Christian Immigrants in an around London
SLLS 87: Art and Architecture of Religious Confluence in SL by Hasini Haputhantri
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SLLS 87: Art and Architecture of Religious Confluence in SL by Hasini Haputhantri
SLLS 86: Exploring the non-thermal universe by Prof Tim Greenshaw
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SLLS 86: Exploring the non-thermal universe by Prof Tim Greenshaw
SLLS 85: The Beverley Allitt Saga by Dr Charith Nanayakkara, Retired Consultant Paediatrician.
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SLLS 85: The Beverley Allitt Saga by Dr Charith Nanayakkara, Retired Consultant Paediatrician.
Resurrecting Sri Lankan Cricket to its former glory” by Arjuna Ranatunga
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Resurrecting Sri Lankan Cricket to its former glory” by Arjuna Ranatunga
Astroarchaeological Evidence on Buddha’s "visit" to Lanka
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Astroarchaeological Evidence on Buddha’s "visit" to Lanka
Where Batik Craft Meets Contemporary Fashion by Darshi Keerthisena
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Where Batik Craft Meets Contemporary Fashion by Darshi Keerthisena
ua-cam.com/video/xl5ciEUBNkQ/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared Another summary of what our 'Hela bas genius' Munidas Kumarathungu did for the future of SL
Excellent
A very insightful programme. Feel your pain and sorrow over the turn of events over a long time now, especially as more of our regions in South Asia also undergo the same... Don't give up the good fight. Much of what happens would, I guess, also depend on how the Sri Lankan expatriate communities across the globe respond and take this issue forward. All expat communities do have the reach; such issues can be seen differently in the daily struggles of life back home. But it's also easy to give up hope when Asian issues are seen from the West (the media also causes some of this vision problem). Sometimes all it takes is a sudden miracle to happen and changes the situation, despite all expectations. Who knows when the light will shine through from the end of our diverse tunnels....
Gish galop yihaaaaaaaw! And we start of with watchmaker fallacy whahahahahaaaaaah
වටින වැඩක්. අනේ කේ. වී. සුගතදාස මහත්තයගෙ දුවගෙ කඩහඬ අසන්න ලැබීම හරි ම සතුටක්. මං පුංචිකාලෙ කියෙව්ව එතුමගෙ "විප්රයෝගය." මම ගුණසේන එකටත් කතා කළා කරුණා කරල මේ පොතේ අලුත් මුද්රණයක් කරන්න කියල. ඒත් කිවුව ඒ ගොල්ලො ගාව නෑ කියල. වාසනාවන්ත දෙමාපියන් ලැබූ ඔබ කෙතරම් නම් භාග්ය සම්පන්න ද?
මේවාඅහාලවත්.හෙදියල්ලා
ඔබතුමාවාගෙමිනිස්සුමේරටටඅහිමිවීමඅවාසනාවක්
ඔයකිකියනදේවල්මේරටේමින්ස්සුන්ටතේරෙනවනම්හොදයි❤
A great speech
ඉතා අගනා අනුශාසනා වක්
තාත්ත මට ඇනපු ටොක්ක දවාලේ තරු පෙනුනා
Wow,
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Oh Thank you for sharing this valuable and wonderful words even this was a private gathering.He was always a role model and practiced what he preached.Its So hard to say good bye Sunil. But his message will remain with us forever.thank you all.❤💚💙💜
We absorbed lot through your weighty discussing !
Rest In Peace
A great discussion without any time and content limits. He had the best chance and time to explain himself!
දිව්යංගනාවක් පෙන්වා නැති වෙනවා. මගේ භක්තිය නිසාද දන්නේ නෑ. සොරි (හොරි නෙවෙයි)
Excellent Program ! ස්තුතියි.
Great. Thank you.
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Mr Sunil Perera... What a greatest man we lost !! V V V SAD !!
සුනිල් යනු පිරිසිදු හදක් අැති කෙලින් පින්වතෙක්
Pinwatha daksha wasanawantha honda manussayek me wage ayata thama manussayek kiyala kiyanna puluwan wenne manussa gathi kiyanne mewata buddha desanawata anuwa sugathiyakama ipadila ethi
මෙතුමා අද හිටියා නම් කොතරම් හොඳද. අද රටට වෙලා තියෙන්නේ මෙවන් මිනිසුන් නැති නිසා යලි.පිපිදෙන්න. සුනිල් අයියා.
So much unknown around us, thank you for sharing with everyone. All the best, orator
'promosm'
Meaning of Sri = in "Sri Lanka" : Shri (/ʃriː/;[1] Sanskrit: श्री, romanized: Śrī, pronounced [ɕriː]) = is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, used as an honorific title Eg. ශ්රි දලධා මාලිගාව.
Congratulations sir
Excellent Program.........
Harsha's voice cannot be heard.
Thank you and I enjoyed. I have to listen to this again.
Well done Harsha, you are great to remember the family history which most have forgotten after reaching the limelight.
Very well conducted Ruwan. Enjoyed it very much. Good to see Lalnath too.
Many thanks
Thank you for taking us back to the days we studied at the university. It also helped us to place what we learnt after that in proper order.
The video I mention in the lecture as worth watching is "Cosmic Voyage". A 1996 short 36-minute documentary film produced in the IMAX format and narrated by Morgan Freeman, and was nominated for an Academy Award. ua-cam.com/video/rZFLi1TSOow/v-deo.html
What a great Man we lost!! May your beautiful soul rest in peace ❤️
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As a HCP who trained at Kent & Canterbury I find this very sad & always felt there for the grace of god go those caught up in the side lines of these dreadful crimes.
S.aiye Stay safe in the arms of JESUS.
RIP
Legend indeed thank you for uploading
Anton perera, Sunil perera are wonderful people who, think about other people, Rest in peace to both,