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Volume 1, Issue 1 Volume 13 Issue 07 Dæhæna - Monthly E-News Letter July 2018

Radio 4EB Sri Lankan Group Web Address: www.4ebsrilankan.org Contact: [email protected]

Tribute to Jaya, Dr. Senake Perera awarded OAM 2

IESL Qld Chapter Office Bearers, Ivor Dennis, Somaweera Senanayake and Hema Nalin Karunaratne pass away

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Soulful…. 4

අභිමානනීය අයිව ෝ...!! 5

Agricola Scientists Help Combat CKD in Sri Lanka 6

Domestic Violece…, Old Anandians Office Bearers, Request for Volunteers at PDO at Prime Minister’s Office 7

Somaweera: The Calm Man with Great Human Qualities , Brisbane Events 8

Brisbane Events 9-10

Brisbane Events Calendar, Program Schedule 11

Inside this issue:

4EB ශ්රී ංාික ක කඩායායවන න කවුම්නකගේවප ිවුම්යය

4EB ප්රජා ුව ්විදුලි වව ාව ශ්රී ංාිය ය කඩායායම ය හ දෙව් වේඩිවයෝ කඩායායම ිමණ ම වනොව . එය ුව ්විදුලි කංා ට වව ම ව්ව ච්ඡා ප්රජා වව ා ට අභිගේියය ් න ිරිසවකවන්ව වවි, වේඩිවයෝව ්ව ඔබ්බට ගිය වමාජ වමවෙ රක නිරත ම්ණු ප්රජා කඩායායමක . ශ්රී ංාිය ය වේඩිවයෝ කඩායායම EB ුව ්විදුලි යට වනබ්වධ වීවන ඉතිොවය 1981 වර ් ා ඈතට ි, යයි. එ්ා වම්ා තුර ශ්රී ංිකා කණයායම ි,නාන ජ ජයරෙණය්ව අතිමෙ ජය. ූලංය වාමාජික ජ ය 100 ් ා වඩි කර නවනීම ිදිදධ වෂ ත්ර ං ්ව හම වෙ ෘ ජතීය ිංපුගේද්් වහිත ුව ්විදුලි නිව ්ක නිව ි,කා ්ව වෙ තාෂවුක ිල්පීන්ව 0කට වඩි ිරිසවකවන්ව වම්විදත වීම අය වෙෝරා ක ්ව ආරනභ වූ ුව ්ව කාංය ිවය ව්ක ් ා වඩි කර නවනීම භාෂා නිවයෝජනය අ හ 0කට වඩි කඩායායන නණන අතර වෙෝම කඩායායම වීම වන අතිස්ව කවීන විවනන විව තය්වය.

අි කඩායායවන ව්වනිව ්නය මයිවරොවනෝනවය්ව ඔබ්බට වනනයන ත ජ මාධයය නන මාිකක ිද්යු ජ ප්ර ෘ ජති ි්රිකා යි. එහි ප්රතිරාෙක ජ ය වන න ිදට 0000 ඉ ම ා ික. . වන ිකය ජයරෙණය්ව ිුගගිය වර 7 තු EB ශ්රී ංිකා කඩායායම වමවෙයවූ කව්ම්නකගේ ්ව 15කට වඩි ිරිසවකවප වම්වම ඔම්්ව ො උවර හර නව. ක්රියා ක කටු ස වාමාජිකය්වවප් නිව්වරණාධයාශ වමවෙ වරහි ප්රතිලංය්වය. ූලංය වාමාජික ජ ය ්වූ ශ්රී ංාික කය්ව වම්වම EB ිකිෙං නාළිකාව ශ්රා ක ඔබ ෙවම ව්න එහි මාෙව ිාේශ් කගේව ෝය.

එ ්ව වනෞර ණීය ඉතිොවය වහිත ශ්රි ංාිය ය කඩායායවමහි න කව්ම්නකගේ ශවය්ව කටයුතු කර්වනට ංවබීම මා ං් භානයයක . ව්ව ච්ඡා වව ා ම් ් ප්රජා කඩායායම වමවෙයවීම භාරූරර

කාේයයක . එවෙ ජ වමාන අභිගේියය්ව වහිත වෙෘ් ිරිසව ො එ ්වනට ංවබීම ිදවනෝ්ය එං ්වනක . EB ිකිෙං නාළිකාව අභි ෘද්ධිය වම්වම බ්රිව්වබ්්ව ශ්රී ංාික ක ප්රජා ට යා රව ජ ෙර ජ ප්රජා ුව ්විදුලි ව්වනිව ්න වව ා හිටු කර දීම අවේ ඒකායන අරමුණයි. ශ්රී ංාික ක ජ ය වවම්ා අනයන ඔබ ඒ වුො වනොම් වෙවයෝනය ංබා ව් හ ඇතවයි අිර උ් ම අවේෂා කරමු.

කුමාරිකිෙ ි,වානායක

Immigration Forum

The officers from the Citizenship and Multi-cultural Affairs Program Branch of the Department of Home Affairs conducted an information forum for the Sri Lankan community recently.

Initiated by the Honorary Consul for Sri Lanka in Queensland, Mr. Anton Swan and the Regional Director Queensland of the Department of Home Affairs, Mr. Steve Biddle, the forum was to inform the Sri Lankan community of the Proposed changes to the Citizenship application process, parent and elder visa process, issues relating to the student visa process, the changes to the 457 Visa program, partner visa program and the issue of domestic violence, issues relating to the immigration agents and visa processing times.

The representatives of several Sri Lankan organisations attended the forum. The representatives were requested to disseminate the infor-mation to the community.

Wimal Kannangara

First Death Anniversary of Aravinda Rubasinghe

23rd July will be the first anniversary of Aravinda Rubasinghe passing away.

A man of many talents, Aravinda was a strong pillar of support for the Sri Lankan community. May he attain Nibbana.

Editor

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A Tribute to Jaya

Born in 1945 to Hendrik and Jane Jayakody to a family of 6 siblings, Rathnasiri, more popularly known as ‘Jaya’ became the 'father' of his siblings at the tender age of 23 when his father passed away. Two years later when his mother passed away, Jaya became the head of the clan, responsible for everyone that bore his family name. Thus began Jaya's life's mission to be the 'Arakkha Deva' (god of protection) to anyone who needed his support.

However, Jaya was an invisible figure- always behind the curtain, always holding the helm. Wherever he went, Jaya 'made community' by bringing people together with his immense capacity to understand people, his kindness and generosity, his humility and his sense of fairness and that particular gift for making friends. These qualities made him an endear-ing personality respected by all.

Jaya never held caste, creed or race as makers for discrimination. During the riots of Black July of 1983, Jaya not fearing the wrath of hooligans gave protection to the Tamil cobbler who lived down his street, holding him safe in his home, hosting him as a guest.

He had scant regard for titles and positions. To Jaya a person was valuable to the extent he gave of himself. As such he never accepted positions in organisations opting to offer support, nameless, title-less.

However, in spite of all the accolades that could be bestowed on Jaya, the one that would please him most would be that ' he was a simple man'. Jaya wore simplicity as a crown.

Jayantha Ameratunga / Wimal Kannangara

Dr. Senake Perera awarded OAM

We are proud to announce that Dr. Senake Perera was among the Queen’s Birthday Honours recipients, receiving an OAM for services to the Sri Lankan community of Victoria.

Senake, who was a prominent member of the Sri Lankan community serving on the committees of both Sinhala Association and Radio 4EB Sri Lankan Group while in Brisbane, moved to Melbourne with his work.

In Melbourne he continues to serve in Australia Sri Lanka Catholic Association, Sri Lankan Study Centre for the Advancement of Technology and Social Welfare (SCATS Australia) and Colombo University Alumni Association of Victoria.

He is the recipient of Award of Excellence Service Delivery to Multicultural Victoria Community Services, Victorian Multicultural Commission (2008), Melvin Jones Fellowship, Lions Club Interna-tional (2009) and Excellence Award for Services to the Community, SCATS Australia (2010).

We congratulate Senake on his award.

Editor

Cordial Invitation to become a member of Radio 4EB

Radio 4EB Sri Lankan Group cordially invites you to renew your membership for the new year or to

become a member if you are not one already.

Please call Radio 4EB on 07 3240 8600

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Ivor Dennis Passes Away

Veteran singer and musician Ivor Den-nis passed away aged 86 on 18 June at his home in Seeduwa.

Dennis is regarded as the singer who took forward the musical legacy of Sunil Shantha.

Courtesy: Hiru News and Daily Mirror

Please see page 5 for another account of Ivor Dennis

Somaweera Senanayake Passes Away

Senior Journalist, author and tele-drama and film script writer Somaweera Senanayake passed away on 16 June. He was 74.

Senanayake was the scriptwriter of over 30 tele-dramas, including popular tele-dramas Doo Da-ruwo, Asal Vesiyo, Palingu Menike, Sitha Niwana Katha, Yashorawaya and Charitha Thunak. He was also the scriptwriter of the movies Ammawarune and Mihidum Sihina.

Yashorawaya was one of the many books authored by Senanayake. Other notable works of fiction by him include Mawakage Geethaya, Baladevage Lokaya, Irahanda Payana Loke and Ambu Samiyo. Sena-nayake was the first ever Sri Lankan to be awarded a Master of Arts for a novel. He had also written cartoon stories to Sathuta, the first cartoon paper in the country. He succeeded Edwin Ariyadasa as the editor of the periodical, Navayugaya and held the position until his retirement.

Courtesy: http://www.sundayobserver.lk

Please see page 6 for a personal account of Somaweera Senanayake

Hema Nalin Karunaratne Passes Away

Popular television presenter, compere and jour-nalist Hema Nalin Karunaratne passed away on 4 June at the age of 55 at his home in Malabe.

With over 25 years of experience in the televi-sion industry serving in channels including Ru-pavahini and Swarnavahini, Karunaratne headed his own satellite channel in Heritage TV.

Rupavahini’s education service was a milepost in his life and he gained fame for the popular programme “9.05” which was a mainstay in the channel programmes for a long period.

Courtesy: http://www.adaderana.lk

IESL Queensland Chapter

Office Bearers 2018/19 Year

President: Jayantha Wickramatunga

Vice President: Sharmil Markar

Secretary: Ajith Wickramaratne

Treasurer: Nimal Pushpakumara

Editor: Asoka Tittagala

Committee Members:

Jerome Arunakumaren

Mangala Sooriyaarachchige

Wasanthi Wickramasinghe

Abdul M M Ziyath

Sivakumar Kesawan

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Soulful...

Nadanaanjali School of Dancing proudly staged its 25th annual con-cert on 19th May, 2018. Barathanatiyam lovers were taken to a won-derland by the mesmerising dancers. The rich cultural heritage which had descended over many thousands of years was once again in full bloom, under the skilful patronage of founder Guru Smt. Chitra Yogi Srikantha.

The first half of the performance, presenting classical items was vi-brant and the latter presenting folk dances was dynamic. However the show stealer was "Shiva Anjali", an exhilarating dance drama skilfully performed by senior and graduated students.

If that stole the show, what moved the soul was the dedication dance performed by the seniors for their guru. The guru's guru Smt. Balasundari, had choreographed and trained the seniors to stage a divine dance showing their love and respect to their teacher Smt.Chithra. The "Gurukulam" tradition was heart warming to watch.

May "Natarajan", pleased by the offerings of "Nadananjali" bless guru and shishyas through his blissful and joyful cosmic dance.

Let peace prevail.

Dancers of Nadananjali have performed at 'Saralanga', the cultural show hosted by the Sinhala Association of Queensland.

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ජන විගීතය ිරළිබු උිවද්ශක රවය වංව ි ජ න අයිව ෝ එ කට රජවේ විගීත ිද්යාංවේ ප්රධාන විගීත ිීක ෂක W.B. මකුවංො මෙතා වම ්ව ජන විගීතවේ අ මු්ප වවොයා ගිවේය. මකුවංො මෙතාවප නිෂ්ිා්නය්වවූ 'ිෙනි්ව ිෙන' 'වෙ ටුහිර' ආදී ජන ගී වය වටේව ංට ්ායකවූ ඔදෙ 'වෙ ටුහිර' නායන ෘ්ව්වේ ූලි කයා ිදය. වීරවව න ුවණතිංක ංයන්ප ර්ව ං වරෝෙණ බවද්්වප ව්වනම්්ව වෙ ටුහිවේ අයිව ෝවප වමකාලීනවයෝ වූෙ.

ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්ව වමවෙයවූ 'ර්ව ංා ' විගීත වය වටෙන තුි ්ව 19 5 ේෂවේදී බිහිවූ 'කුගේළු ිරාි,වව - කුගේළු ිකහින වානවේ..' ගීතය තුි ්ව අයිව ෝ වයනිව් යන නාමය එක රැයි්ව ඉමෙ ජවූ ජනප්රවා්යට ි ජිදය.

ුව ්ව ිදුලි වේ 'ප්රබුදද්ධ ගී' වය වටෙන වුො ිදිදධ කටෙ වවොයා ගිය ආචාේය ව ම්ාවය්වට නවඹුගේ බර ෙ වවොයා ගිය නමව්වදී නායන ිල්පීන T.M.ජයර ජනය්වවප වයොමු ක ීකම මත ඔදෙවප ව ජීකම අයිව ෝ වයනිව් ිදය. අයිව ෝ වයනිව්වප නවඹුගේ කටෙ වෙ ිදිදධ ිරාවය්වහි නායන ක ීකවන ෙවක යා ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්වවන්ව ිුග මනා ෙඳුනාන්වනා ව ම්ාවය්ව තම ිේවේෂණා ජමක විගීතය වුො අයිව ෝ වයෝා නවනීම අති වාේථක ිදය. ව ම්ාවය්ව නිේමාණය ක 'ිරිසනි ්ව මිනංයය' ‘මානවිදං’ ‘මවප කාංවේ ම නි’ විගීත විධ් නිය්ව වාේථක ජ ය තුං අයිව ෝ වයනිව් ෙ විෞේෂය මනා ිරළිඹිඹු ිදය. ව ම්ාවය්ව ත හ වයෝා විගීත ජ කං ගීත අතිස්ව 'අඳුගේ කුටිය තුං' 'උුලනබරා හිනවවෙන ා' ඇතුළු 'අ රගිර' 'ආ්ර ෙුගන' 'ව්ව නි නමන' 'ිාර ි,වප' වෙ 'හිම කතර' ියත්රිට ගීත නායනයට එ ව ටු්ව ඔදෙ ිකනමා ගීතය අතිරමණය ක ීකමට වම ජ ිදය. වන අතිස්ව 'හිම කතර' ියත්රිටයට නවූ, 'ක්ව් එො වව්ව ික්වනා..' ගීතය 1985 ේෂවේ වෙොුම ියත්රිට ගීතය වුො ජනාධිිති වනමානවය්ව ිරුලන ංවබිය. එවම්වම වර 50 වනි දීේඝ කාංය ිකිෙං ගීත වෂ ත්රයට ක වව ා අනයා 1995 දී ඔදෙ උඩා යා වනමානවය්ව ිරුලන ංවබීය.

''වයනිව් අේයා ක යං තමයි කුයා කං ිකටම අිර ඔදෙ ඇමතුව .... මට මතකයි මවප ිරයා ක යන මට පු ජතු තු්වව්වන වනවමයි මම ෙතර ව්වන ෙවුල ා ක යං… ඒ වඩිම්ප පුතා තමයි වයනිව් අයියා...". ුගනි්ප වා්වත පු ජ ංිකා වා්වත තම ිවරවු මතකය අ ි, ක වමොවෙොත .

"වයනිව් අයියා නවන ක ය්වන වද් ්ප වබොවෙොමයි. තා ජතවප වමෙර වනෝංය්ව අවනකු ජ ාික තකා තා ජතවන්ව ඈ ජව න ිදට වයනිව් අයියා තම ුවගේතුමා වමනම වව නව්පං වප වනොවව්පවී ිකටියා..."

“ජීිදත කාංවේම මව් මාිශ ි ්ව වංක ංා වපම මුලිදත අෙංකට ජ වනොගිය වයනිව් අේයා නන වා්වතු රවය මයි. තම ුවගේතුමා වම්ව වකෝව් වකි ්ව තියාවනන ක ික කුට ආ ය්වව්ව නවති ික. වම්ව ඔදෙට ිකද්ධව ච්ච අවාධාරණ නන එමටයි. මම වෙොුටම ්්වනා එයි්ව එක තමයි ඔදෙවප නායන කුවංතා ට ආචාේය උිාධිය ිරිසනවමීමට එ මොචාේයතුවම ක වයෝජනා ප්රති වෂ ිවීම…”.

ක ඳිවනොය ක ය්වව්ව ව්හියනාත ජා-ඇං අවං ිරහිටි කුයා නම . වර නනනා කට විර වන නවන කවතෝි ක වද් ව්ථානය ඉි, වකගේණා. වමම වද් ව්ථානය කවි කව ‘ශුද්ධවූ මිසයා වනොවරති මුනි ිසය’ ව ත. වමම ‘ශුද්ධවූ මිසයා වනොවරති’ ගීතිකා නගේ වමොවවව් විවේරා ිරයතුමා ි යං ුවගේව්ිද ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්වට ව්න ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්ව වමම ගීතිකා ට ත හ ්මන . ිුගකවංක ව්ොව්තර ගේ ්ව ඒකනායක මෙතාවප ඉ්පි මට අයිව ෝ වයනිුග්ව වමම ගීතිකා නයන .

ි්පි වේ ගීතිකා අතර ඉතා ිදිලෂ්ඨ නිේමාණය න වමම ුලේංභ ගීතය අයිව ෝ වයනිුග්ව ෙට වනෞර පුේ ක වමහි වටේව තබටු. අයිව ෝ වයනිුග්ව ජායාූ ිවේ ිුගබිම ්ව ව ්වව්ව ඒ ක ඳිවනොය වද් ව්ථානයයි.

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ඉර ට යන ගිරිදය්වට ඔදෙ යළි ජ වනොනය හ ඇත.... අයිව ෝ වයනිව් නා්වධේ යාණනි ඔබට ුග බර නි්ව් ..!!!

වම්වම්ප ුවණර ජන

ඒ 1950 වවේ එ තරා ි,නයක . එකං ශ්රී ංිකා ුව ්ව ිදුලි විව්ථාව ව ව ු වව ය ම ්ව ඉි,ිසි ජ ක ‘ආධුනික ිවය’ විගීත වය වටෙනට වෙභාගි වූ න වයොම්්ව තගේණයකු ඉතා ිදිලෂ්ඨ වංික්ව ගීය නායනා කව ය. ඒ නායන ිල්පීන ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්වවප එ කට අතිශය ජනප්රිය ‘ වර්ව හී්ව වවවේ ිසදී ංාව ’ ගීතයයි. ුව නට මුුගවූ එය ටුයුගේ නායනය ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්වවප ව ්වි ජ අතර රැඳුවඩා අෙනවබනි. ඒ තමා ිදික්ව ුව ්ව ිදුලි යට ිටිනත ක ගීතය යවයි මුි ්ව ිකතූ ් එය ආධුනිකයකුවප නවයුම බ ්වනන ජ ිුග ුගනි ්ව මිදතයට ි ජ ිදය.

ුගනි්ප වා්වත එම අයිව ෝ වයනිව් කටෙ නවන වකොතරන උනන්වුලම්වේ් ක වෙො ජ මර්ාව්ව නි ට්ව වනොයනවගි්පව්ප ි ජ ාවනන ගිය 'FORWARD ACADEMY' විගීත ි්වතිවේදී වමම ආධුනික නායනය ඇනයුමට ං කව ය. විගීත ි්වතිවේ ිකටි ිවට්රි ව්නිිරටිය ිලෂයයා තම්ව අයිව ෝ වයනිව් ෙඳුනනබ වපම ඔදෙ ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්ව ෙමු ට රැවනන එ්වනට විොවරෝවුල ිදය.

විොවරෝවුල ිිසි, ිවට්රි ව්නිිරටිය ිදික්ව ිදික ෙවිදිසි, අයිව ෝ වයනිව් එ කට ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්ව න ාතව්ව වනන ිකටි බනබංිරටිවේ 'ිකිසවු' වෙෝටංය ව ත කවු ා වනන යාම ුගනි්ප වා්වත-අයිව ෝ වයනිව් මු්ප ෙමුවීම ිදය. තම ෙ ට ඉතා වමාන ෙ ක ්ව ගීතය නායනා ක වමම ආධුනිකයා නවන ිවවසූ ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්ව විගීතය ඉි,ිසයට ජ ෙව්ෑීකමට ඔදෙට ඇරයුන කව ය. මීනමු ි්පි වේ ගීතිකා කඩායායම වමවෙයවූවේ අයිව ෝවප ිරයා ම්න ජ තම පුතා විගීතය ව ත වයොමු ක ීකමට ඔදෙවප ව්ම ිරය්ව එතරන කවමව ජත වනෝව වීය. ඒ ජ ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්වවප ය ම අෙක ්වමීමට වනොෙවක වූ තවන මර්ාන විගීත ි්වතියට එවීමට අ වානවේ කවමව ජත ි කව ය. ඒ අයිව ෝ වයනිව් 66 වරක විගීත චාිසකාව ූලංාරනභය ිදය.

වන ිදිලෂ්ඨය්ව වමු න්වනා විරා්වති වමයයි. ප්රවීණ නායන ිල්පීන අයිව ෝ වයනිව් මෙතා ිුගගිය ජුනි 18 ව නි්ා ව් ේනව්ථ ිදය ඒ න ිදට ඔදෙ 86 න ිදවේ ිුගිදය.

1932 මවයි 08 වවනුගරා්ා ක සීදූ ප්රවද්ශවේදී ිවව් කු ්ප ව්ෝව ඔනව් ටි්ව අයිව ෝ ජ්වමය ංබ්වව්ව වමව්තවූ රට ්වය වනොංන ටුයුගේ කටෙ කට උගේමකන ක යටුනි. වඩිමෙ වවෙෝ්රය්ව ව්ව්වනකුට ො බාං වවොවෙොයුිසයකට වවෙෝ්රවය වූ ඔදෙ අකුගේ වාව්ත්රවේ ් ෂවය ිදය. ිරළිව ි ්ව ිකුල වරෝමා හ කවතෝි ක ිාවවං ටුනමු මාිසව්වටංා ිද්යාංය වෙ උවව් වි වුො වංොයංා ිද්යාංය මගි්ව ඔදෙ අකුගේ කරිදය.

ිකිෙං ියත්රිට ිශ කතාව වම්වම අනනයවූ ිකිෙං ියත්රිට විගීතවේ ුගිදවශ ෂී ව්වධිව්ථානය වූ ආචාේය වංව්ටේ වේනව් ීනිසව්වප 'වේඛා ' වෙ 'විවද්ශය' ියත්රිට ං ගී ත හ නිේමාණය කව විගීතව දී ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්වවූ අතර ගීත ිටි නත ක ීකම වුො ුගනි්ප වා්වතය්ව ඉ්වි,යා ට යාම ප්රති වෂ ි ක වෙ තුව ්ව ඉ්වි,යාව ' ාහිනී' ියත්රානාරයට වනොව් ගී ත හ ිටිනත වකොට නව ත රැවනන ඒවන රාජකාිසය අ ව්ථා ව්ව දීම ිව වර්වව්ව තගේණ අයිව ෝ ෙටය.

'වේඛා ' ියත්රිටවේ අවනකු ජ ගීතය්ව වුො වවුග ිල්පිර්ව පුදෙණු ක ීකවන කේත යය වපම 'විවද්ශය' ියත්රිටවේ ා්ය ෘ්ව්ය වමවෙයවීම් අයිව ෝ අති්ව ඉ ස වකිසවු. 'වේඛා ' ියත්රිටවේ ආරනභක ගීතය 'අ හරාපුර විොවංෝවනගේ ...' ිදිසුල ගීතය ඔදෙවප ප්රථම ිකනමා ිුගබින නායනය ිදය.

1958 වරදී ඔදෙ ුව ්ව ිදුලි වේ ‘A වශ්ර වුවේ’ නායකවයකු ශවය්ව ව ජීක ි ජ ිදය.

ෘ ජතිවය්ව ුවගේ රයකු වූ අයිව ෝ 1959ි, තම ප්රථම ුවගේ ි ජවීම 1959 දී ර ජනපුර නවට්වනම ිද්යාංවය්ව ඇරඹිය. අනතුගේ මීනමු ිාව්ප ක හිියක විගීත ුවගේ රයකු ශවය්ව කටයුතු කව ය. ිුග 19 වවේදී රජවේ විගීත ිද්යාංවේ ෞවවෞ්ව්ේයය අධයාින ආයතනවේ

අභිමානනීය අයිව ෝ…!!!!

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Agricola Scientists Help Combat Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Sri Lanka

If you have recently visited Sri Lanka, you may have heard about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), which unfortunately has become a major health concern in rural communities. First noticed in the North Central Province several years ago, then traced in the Uva province, currently CKD has spread throughout several areas in Sri Lanka. Its detrimental effects have led to over tens of thousands of deaths, as well as hundreds of thousands of victims across the past two decades. The World Health Organisation stated that the dis-ease has killed approximately 20,000 people and diagnosed up to 400,000 people. Although there have been records of women and children subject to this disease, males, typically middle-aged farm-ers, have primarily fallen victim. Patients with CKD usually live approximately for 2 years after the initial diagnosis. The detrimental effects of the disease affect the lives of those victims, as well as their families and communities. Families, who are the victim of losing a loved one to CKD, especially if the primary breadwinner has de-ceased, most likely will face a range of social, emotional and financial difficulties.

While the root cause of this disease has not been traced yet, the quality and composition of drinking water in such areas is to blame. Based on evi-dence, scientists, researchers, and activists believe that polluted ground water; typically that from shallow wells is a plausible cause for CKD. Exposure to high concentrations of pollutants/toxins resulting from sub-stantial usage of substandard agro chemicals for farming has been preva-lent since the 1960s, and is believed to have contributed to water quality is-sues within these areas.

Local and international authorities have suggested implementing safe drinking water measures as an alternative source to prevent or ultimately minimise CKD. As a compromise, a team of scientists based in Australia, among many others, representing Agricola (Association of Sri Lankan Agricul-ture and Veterinary Science Graduates in Queensland) has stepped up to the challenge to derive a pragmatic, sustainable and reliable solution. A safe drinking water alternative will be developed using Australia’s advanced rain harvesting technologies. For more than 200 years, almost every rural community in Australia have success-fully used harvested rainwater for drinking purposes. Australia has the contemporary technologies and experience to collect, store and use rainwater as a potable water source. Based on Australian tech-nology, Agricola’s scientific expertise has designed and developed a reliable and safe rainwater harvesting system that matches Sri Lankan conditions.

This project is a collaboration between Agricola Queensland, Uni-versity of Peradeniya, Lanka Rainwater Harvesting Forum (LRF) and National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS). Two proto-types of rainwater harvesting system were constructed using Aus-

tralian standards at the Fac-ulty of Engineering, Univer-sity of Peradeniya, as well as in Badulla in collaboration with LRF. The water quality of these prototypes is being tested and the results so far indicate that the quality is comparable or better than the WHO recommended drinking water quality stand-ards (please see table 1) With the proven success, Agricola has initiated a pilot project for further testing and evaluation of this sys-tem using purposefully se-lected families in a CKD affected village in Badulla district and provided funding for con-structing of 15 rain water harvesting units. This pilot project will include the study of reliability of water supply, improvement of human health, change of community attitudes and socio-economics aspects as a result of consumption of rainwater for drinking. The findings and outcome of this project will be for-warded to the Sri Lankan Government and/or private enterprises for large scale implementation.

Agricola Queensland has raised funds for this project through several community activities in Brisbane. All attendees and spon-sorships for these events have contributed to raise funds for the Rainwater Harvesting Project.

If you would like to hear more about this project or if you are in-terested in supporting this project; please contact Agricola via [email protected]. If you wish, you could also donate a rain harvesting unit to a less fortunate family in a CKD affected area and help saving lives. We sincerely acknowledge all the gener-ous support received thus far and we look forward to what is still to come.

Agricola Queensland Committee

Cordial Invitation to renew your membership of Radio 4EB

Radio 4EB Sri Lankan Group cordially invites you to renew your membership for the new year or to

become a member if you are not one already.

Please call Radio 4EB on 07 3240 8600

mailto:[email protected]

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Request for Volunteers: The Policy Development Office of the Prime Minister’s Office, Sri Lanka

A message from the Head of Policy Development Office in Sri Lanka to the Sri Lankan community overseas.

22nd June 2018 H.E. Mr. Somasundaram Skandakumar High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Australia Your Excellency, The Policy Development Office (PDO) of the Prime Minister’s Office has openings for a few volunteers who are graduates of Sri Lankan origin of foreign universities looking for opportunities to gain skills and experience in the field of their interest. This may offer them the prospect to exchange their services for valuable work experience during their holidays or a break from studies, working with an active research community.

The selected candidates will be engaged as interns and will not be entitled to any remuneration, the period could vary from 3 to 6 months. Their presence will compliment a program of interns PDO already has established with graduates selected from the universities in Sri Lanka. We have also had a few volunteers in the past from outside Sri Lanka and the experience has been positive. We would be thankful if this opportunity is given wide publicity in your Newsletters and official web pages. You may also disseminate the message to any known student papers and Sri Lanka Associa-tions as they may find this to be of interest.

All prospective candidates who wish to have further information may be requested to contact us direct on email: [email protected]

I thank you for your cooperation on this matter. With my best regards.

J. Charitha Ratwatte Head Policy Development Office

Domestic Violence and Support Available

Domestic violence can take many forms including emotional, eco-nomic, physical abuse and threatening and coercive behavior. Below there are some examples of what domestic violence may look like.

Emotional abuse is when your partner doesn’t let you go out with friends, calls you names or swears at you. Economic abuse is when your partner makes it difficult for you to attend work or doesn’t allow you to make decisions about the household finances or misus-es money. Physical abuse is when your partner hits you, damages property or hurts your children or pets.

Threatening behaviour is when your partner makes you feel afraid by saying things or acting in a way that scares you. Coercive behav-iour is when your partner makes you sign documents you don’t un-derstand or against your wishes or forces or manipulates you to do things you don’t want to do.

Domestic violence also includes children seeing or hearing the abuse.

The Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 states that, regardless of gender, people affected by domestic violence are two people who are or were a couple, married, engaged, in a de fac-to relationship, the parents of a child, or in a legally recognized rela-tionship. Other relationships include family relationships and infor-mal care relationships.

For more information on domestic violence or free and confidential support, please contact the Immigrant Women’s Support Service on 3846 3490, Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 4:00pm. They can assist you to access free legal advice and other support. They provide free and confidential interpreters when required.

For emergencies, contact police on 000.

If you need safe accommodation contact DVConnect on 1800 811 811.

The Immigrant Women’s Support Service is funded by the Depart-ment of Child Safety, Youth and Women.

NB: The topic of Domestic Violence was covered in Radio 4EB Arunella program on Sunday 17th June.

Old Anandians Association of Queensland (OAAQ)

Office Bearers 2018/19 Year

President: Shiran Ranatunga

Imm. Past President: Ranjan Wijeratne

Vice President (Social): Rohan Wijesingha

Vice President (Sports): Mithila Wanigathunge

Secretary: Sudam Wanigatunga

Treasurer: Hemakantha Ekanayake

Committee Members:

Mahi Ranasinghe

Priyantha Jayasekera

Nipuna Fonseka

Janitha Mapitigama

Uthpala Jayaweera

Ajith Wickramaratne

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Somaweera: The Calm Man with Great Human Qualities

By Dr. Nimal Sedera

A kind, soft spoken man was he. There was never a rush in his life. A man of few words and simplicity was his vision of life.

The great personality Somaweera Senanayake is no more. As one of his best friends, right now away from the motherland, I get over the grief moment by writing a few sentences not of his creative writing and Teledramas but thinking of his great human qualities.

Our friendship goes back to forty-one years to be precise. I recall meeting him for the first time at Lake House in the company of Dr. Edwin Ariyasasa. Our minds clicked, and a friendship began to grow so quickly that our families associated so dearly. Rupa his beloved wife, and two children, daughter Madubhashini, and son Akalanka were like our family members.

He is from a rural background, the son of an Ayurvedic doctor. I have joined him when he visited the two schools he studied to par-ticipate at special meetings and felicitations, the Seethawaka Maha Vidyalaya and the Rajasinghe Central College.

His greatest quality was his capacity to listen. He would allow the other person to finish talking and even ask ”Have you finished”. “I hate wearing shoes and coat and tie. It does not suit this country, our climate”, he said. We were born in the same month in different years 1943 and 1944. I was just a day early and a year ahead, so we arranged joint birthday celebrations sometimes.

He, like Dr. Edwin Ariyadasa and Dharmasiri Gamage, was a man I looked for advise in relation to my work with the National Youth Services Council pertaining to cultural activities. We travelled the country for such activities. We escaped death having attended a cultural project in Vavuniya during the LTTE days.

Best part of our association came when he invited me to join his team of journalists at Little Rose publications where he was ap-pointed the Editor in Chief. Anula de Silva and Muditha Kariyakarawana were the oth-er two editors. Udayakantha Warnasuriya, the film personality was our layout artist and Soma Hettiarachchi was our circulation Manager.

He was a wise man who was able to dele-gate responsibility and not mix-up friend-ship with work. There were times he was critical on my work and addressed me as if I was a stranger to him. “We can be a small company, but we can be an example to the industry” was his vision.

I spoke to his wife Rupa, Somaweera’s wife, and to Akalanka, his son after the news of the death. I reminded of a photograph that was by the dining table at Somaweera’s house at Embillawatta, Boralesgamuwa, taken with Akalanka and our two sons Daraka and Darshana on horsebacks in Nuwaraeliya when we made a fam-ily trip to World’s End. Akalanka replied “Yes it is still there”.

He was a quality Sinhala writer with seventeen novels to his credit and received national awards for some of the novels. He was a popular film script writer and no doubt the best of all television drama script writers of the era. “Palingumenike”,” Du Daruvo” and “Yashoravaya” stand out as best of the best. ”Sitha Nevena Katha” series is a landmark script writing power of Somaweera. Dr. Lester James Pieris directed some of his scripts. Two days before he was admitted to hospital we had a long conversation over the phone. He suffered from diabetes for many years specially with weak vision. He was an ardent Buddhist.

May he attain Nibbana.

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Sandella - Tuesday 10.00pm - 11.00pm FM 98.1

Date Producer/Panel Operator

03 July Sudam Wanigatunga, Shyam Kottegoda, Mithila Wanigathunge/Mithila Wanigathunge

10 July Yashan Thilakarathna / Niraj Kariyawasam

17 July Chathurika / Sandun de Silva

24 July Kumara Dissanayake / Achira Samaratunga

31 July Darshika Koggalhewa / Ananda Pathirana

07 Aug Sudam Wanigatunga, Shyam Kottegoda, Mithila Wanigathunge/Mithila Wanigathunge

Arunella - Sunday 8.30am - 9.30am FM 98.1

Date Producer/Panel Operator

01 July Nawroos Naeem/Lakmini Keerawella /Achira Samaratunga

08 July Samanmal Gunaratne / Samanmal Gunaratne

15 July Kumara Dissanayake / Kasun Karunaratne

22 July Ananda & Nayana Samaratunga / Ananda Samaratungs

29 July Himaya andThisara Pathirennehelage / Thisara

05 Aug Udaya Madugalle / Wimal Kannangara

Program Schedule

Sri Lankan Events Brisbane

July 2018

07 Madhu Feast Sri Lankan Catholics

14 Comedy Buddy Private

21 Aadaraneeya Hendeva Private

21-22 25th Anniversary of SLBM Forest Lake Temple

22 Vas Aradhana Forest Lake Temple

22 Christmas in July Silver Fawn Club

22 Mega Live Star Sathsara Entertainment

28 Vas Invitation Ceremony Goodna Temple

28 Annual General Meeting Goodna Temple

29 Sil Program Forest Lake Temple

August 2018

11 Maha Seya Vandana Forest Lake Temple

11 Annual T20 Charity Shield Encoun-ter & Family Fun day

FSOQ

11 AGM and Family Night Richmond Mahinda OBA

11 Billy Fernando 2 forty 2 Band Sathsara Entertainment

12 Celebrating 30 Years at Kangaroo Point

Radio 4EB

18 Kapruk Puja for The Stupa Goodna Temple

18 Hantane Nite Peradeniya Uni. Alumni

19 Sports Day & Food Fair Silver Fawn Club

25 Sil Program Forest Lake Temple

25 Paduru Sajje 2018 SPUR Qld

September 2018

01 AGM & Annual Dinner Dance Agricola Qld.

08 Club Night Silver Fawn Club

08-09 Carnival of Cricket 2018 SL Sports Association

09 Movie: Nidahase Piya: DS Privae

15 Sihinayaki Re Concert Private

22 Musical Concert: Thawa Dawasak Private

28Sep-1Oct

Annual Camp Silver Fawn Club

29 Saralaanga 2018 Sinhala Association

October 2018

06 Brunch- 40th Anniversary Members' Celebration

Sri Lanka Society of Qld.

13 Musical Concert: TM Jayaratne, Nanda Malini and Karunaratna Divulgane

Sathsara Entertainment

13 Blue & Gold Dinner Dance Old Royalists’ Assn

14 Food for Beds Food Fair FSOQ

20 Have a Chat & Food Fair Silver Fawn Club

27 Musical Show: Victor Ratnayake, Neela Wickramasinghe

Sinhala Association

DISCLAIMER : All material in this E-newsletter is circulated in good faith and is distributed as an information source only. The Sri Lankan Group, Radio 4EB and the editors of the E-newsletter disclaim all responsibility and all liability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages and costs you might incur as a result of the information being inaccurate or incomplete in any way for any reason. Your use of E-newsletter is at your sole risk. E-newsletter is not liable for any loss resulting from any action or decision made by you in reliance on the information on E-newsletter, any interruption, delay in operation or transmission, virus, communications failure, internet access difficulties or malfunction in hardware or software. E-newsletter may include third party content which is subject to that third party's terms and conditions of use. Users of E-newsletter will not use the material contained in it for any purpose or in any way which is unlawful.

Editors : Wimal Kannangara and Jayantha Weerasekera Advisory Committee : Vasanthe Vithanage, Jayantha Ameratunga, Thisara Pathirannehelage, Kumara Dissanayake and S.W.A. Himaya

November 2018

03-04 Katina ceremony - Pirith Chanting, Katina Robe offering & Dana Goodna Temple

10 Annual Katina Ceremony (Pirith) Forest Lake Temple

10 Club Night Silver Fawn Club

11 Annual Katina Ceremony (Dana) Forest Lake Temple

December 2018

02 Golden Years Christmas Lunch Silver Fawn Club

15 Christmas Carols Silver Fawn Club

31 New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance Silver Fawn Club

31 Asiri: Welcoming the New Year Sinhala Association

31 Dinner Dance Private

February 2019

16 Valentines Dinner Dance Private

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