Dr W Dahanayake’s 13th death anniversary fell yesterday:

The common man politician

In the early 1920s politics in the south was dominated by CWW Kannangara, H.W. Amarasuriya, SH Dahanayake and DS Goonesekera. They were all leaders of the Ceylon National Congress. Kannangara defeated S.H. Dahanayake at the first General Election held under the Donoughmore Constitution for the Galle seat.

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The Morning Inspection

We don’t need another hero!

Yes, that’s from Tina Turner’s song from the 1985 film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle. The line came to me, strangely, after I had just told a set of schoolchildren that we don’t need to look beyond our shores to find heroes (if indeed we needed any, I should have added).

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Taking women’s education to a new dimension

Southlands College - 125 golden years of academic excellence during the past decade:

Southlands College is one of the premier girls schools in the Southern Sri Lanka originated by the Methodist Mission in 1885 as an English medium educational institution which had served as a multi-religious, multi-cultural society 125 years ago.

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