UK-Sri Lanka ties at peak
Sri Lanka has been a distinct sovereign State
until British conquered us and ruled for over 150 years. It is an
international crime to colonise another sovereign State. But it is
the order of the era where the naval power at the time dominated the
world with the law of the jungle.
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Ninth death anniversary of Mervyn de Silva today:
Mervyn and all that Jazz
All I had to do was ask him if he liked Benny
Goodman or Fats Waller or Louis Armstrong. At the time, I knew
nothing of his chosen musical confections, for that would have made
the writing rather more about the Mervyn I knew, than the one I had
to get to know through distance learning.
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