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THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Just give this a thought. How often have you found that a casual remark or a simple request suddenly jogs your memory and throws your thoughts back decades? It is like climbing the...
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The Battle of the Blues
This month Neville de Silva returns to Sri Lanka for the annual “Big Match” between Royal and St Thomas and explores the history, traditions and colour of one of the oldest continuous...
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PLAYING THE GAME WITH - SIR JOHN
The association of ideas could be strange, even inexplicable, rationally. I was glancing through the Sunday edition of The New York Times of February 10 when I spotted an archival...
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SERVING ANOTHER MENDIS SPECIAL
It came like a bolt from the blue. But this was a pleasant one. It took me back 35 years or so to the seventies when a casual meeting in Kuala Lumpur cemented a relationship that remains...
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A Prime Minister who knew his onions
In the late 1950s Professor Das Gupta who headed the Economics Department at the Peradeniya University was trying to instil in us the principles of supply and demand, elasticity of...
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