The Sunday Times
ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday December 16, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 29
 
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Cheers Arthur of Serendip! ADVERTISTMENTS
Sri Lanka would not be celebrating the 90th birthday of Sir Arthur C. Clarke today, December 16, or anticipating the impending visit of American author Gore Vidal as a participant in the Galle Literary Festival in January, if not for a stroke of good luck concerning the back axle and differential of a CTB bus. Over the years, many famous authors, scientists, film-makers and personalities of every description have been drawn to Sri Lanka in order to visit Arthur.
 
Peter’s suits beckon Lanka’s elite
Amidst the stack of clothing material surrounded by racks, holding rows of new suits or dresses lay a large, thick album on a table that tells the story. Pasted page after page are the visiting cards of a sizeable coterie of Sri Lanka’s movers and shakers – politicians, bureaucrats, businesspersons, top military men, lawyers, journalists, doctors, company directors, executives and what have you?
 
This is the way we speak English no!
“What’s the difference between samba, sambur, sambhur and sambol? A molgaha and a miris gala? Malu miris and miris malu? A mudalali and a mudaliyar?” I’m only on the jacket blurb of Michael Meyler’s ‘A Dictionary of Sri Lankan English’, and I can already tell that it is going to be the best kind of educational experience. In fact, if I read his dictionary from cover to cover, I should be able to provide satisfactory answers to where you could find a floor patient....
 

Letters to the editor
  Give Govt. time to achieve its goals
  Draw up checkpoint guidlines
  60 years on, the search for statesmen still on
 
Appreciations
  Nalin T. Wickramaratne
  Sam de Silva
  Emil Balasuriya
   
Features
  Open up this changing world to children
  Where quality is the key
  Creating that feeling of Christmas
  Hajj exemplifies equality
   
Issues
  Shedding light on AFLAC
   
Profile
  Passion, passion is what she has
   
Books
  Rekindling a yearning for architecture of yore
   
People and events
  Lankan student best in London A/L's Business Studies
  Parliamentary Administrative Staff Union annual get- together
  Gamini Punchihewa felicitated
  Come view contemporary work
   

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