Israeli lawlessness and oppression continue

Helpless world simply watched the television footages of day, Israeli barbarity. A United Nations fact-finding report accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza. As usual the report is gathering dust in the UN shelves.

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On random mixing of letters and addressed envelopes

Four years ago, remembering an incident from the year 1993, I wrote down the following question: ‘If letters and addressed envelopes were mixed at random would the world convulse with confusion or be blinded forever by a divine illumination?’ I came across this question by chance when searching for something else and acknowledged once again that some of the more poignant lessons are taught when we are not ready with notebook, pencil, eye and ear.

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First elected representative of Sabaragamuwa Province:

Priest, politician and patriot

Rev Canon W E Botejue’s 140th birth anniversary:

Rev Canon Jayawardene Welatantrige Edwin Botejue’s 140th Birth Anniversary falls on December 21, 2010. In the article published in The Ceylon Observer, Sunday Edition of December 18, 1960, a well-known journalist of the day Jeanne Ratnavira, wrote ‘under the caption Ceylon’s first political priest.’ “On Wednesday the 21st of this month, there will be celebrated a purely domestic event that is becoming exceedingly rare, not only in this island but in the world at large as well - an individual’s 90th birthday.”

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