The Sunday Times
ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday October 14, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 20
 
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Inspiring role ADVERTISTMENTS
Known for his long and distinguished career in theatre and on the screen spanning many decades, Henry Jayasena could well be described as a living legend. Yet ask him about his most cherished memories over the years and it is a measure of the man that it is not the accolades he has received as an actor and director that come first. “The day I got married…the day I had my son,” he says.
 
Heart first at LRH
The tiny babe's eyes are wide open. He puckers up his face and opens his mouth in a wide yawn. What 18-day-old Nipuna Nethranjana Tennekoon, tenderly being cradled in the arms of a nurse of the Lady Ridgeway Hospital in Colombo, is oblivious to is that he is a trailblazer in the state health sector. For at just 13 days, he went under the scalpel, for open heart surgery to correct the wrong positioning of two major vessels bringing in and taking out blood from his tiny heart.
 
Promising politico
His entry into politics was through a strictly race-based party, but to build a ‘Sri Lankan identity’ is foremost in the mind of Deputy Tourism Minister Faizer Musthapha. It was for a cause such as this that he was willing to break ranks with the political party that paved the way for his entre into the political arena.His short stint so far in politics starting in 2004 has seen him rise from an elected MP from the Kandy District to the post of Deputy Minister .....
 
For Kalmunai’s kids
It is an eleven-hour drive to Kalmunai. Even late at night, the shops are still open and the streets busy - the scale of activity enormous. Although scarred by the long years of conflict and the 2004 tsunami, Kalmuni has been spared the recent escalation of violence. At the Children’s Resource Centre, bright lights beckon. People are attending to the last minute details. While some hurriedly polish floors, the others are fixing coloured streamers and balloons and yet others, preparing the traditional entrance appropriate for the opening of a new building.
 
Mind over matter
Two particular mental disorders obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and depression can be cured through meditation and creative visualization
 

Letters to the editor
  It's time they all paid up!
  That shameless, shabby witch-hunt
 
Appreciations
  Prof. S.S. Panditharatne
  Harold Herat
  Anopama Hewavitarne
  LT. COL. W.A.S.P. Wijetunge RSP
  Geethika Ranaweera
   
Features
  Borupana: Heart- burn after the fire
  An affable, hardworking Dhammaduta to head L.B.V.
  Eid Ul Fitr: Meaning behind rituals and prayers of a Holy Day
   
Arts
  Return to Sender - a modern dance performance by Helene Waldmann
  Don'r miss another rib-tickling Indu take on contemporary society
  SOSL performs at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
  Meeting men, women behind words of fiction
  Collection of dances
   
People and events
  Derrick to sing to home audience
  Bringing water to villages
  Poems of everyday things
  Celebrating White Cane Day
  Nine holy nights in Hindu calendar
  Festival of choirs
  Sing-along to raise funds
  Wesley Wives hold evening of fun
  Meet the designers behind the divas
  Who will it be tonight?
   

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