Letters to the Editor
View(s):Reminiscence – on my retirement
Time has come to bid adieu to the state service
Considered honourable many decades ago.
Leaving behind thirty seven long years
Memorable to its core.
Days of yesteryear pleasurable to recall
When your service is meritable for one and all.
Sweetest are the days to cherish forever
Started the noble profession forgotten never
As it was called by my own teachers ever
Service rather than a profession financially poor,
More for self-satisfaction one endeavors
This is not applicable to today’s contour.
Posted to remote schools miles away from home
To complete the ‘difficult service’ mandatory to all
Kids in their rosy cheeks in bubbling youth
Yes, kids they were though young or tall
The beauty of teaching they taught me all
In the early twenties of my youth.
“A teacher from Colombo”, heard they mutter
“Teaching English?”, I too prefer, catering the need of the hour,
Filled the void what so ever, Music, Dancing, Sports no matter
Holidays are the far-fetched thither, long hours stayed together
Grumbled never but did the better, a small gesture of gratitude dear
Registered in the faces ever, brightened the day in heartiest pleasure.
Thirty-seven wonderful years passed, almost nearing four decades
A long way my feet trodden, served under-privileged to most privileged
As it’s called the state schools- mingled with all walks of life
Dedicated to the betterment of the kids in this precious land
Unimaginable, down the memory lane – believe that nature has given me the best
Peeping into the days I passed, when the rickety chair rocks to my sleep.
Lanka Chandanie Ranatunge
They were Malayalee soldiers not Malay troops
The article on the Malays published on December 4 makes reference to King Kalinga Magha. King Kalinga Magha was an Indian and he arrived in this country with a troop of Malayalee soldiers which has been mistakenly construed as Malay troops. The Mahavamsa and the book on the ‘Arrival of the Malays with the Dutch Army’ makes reference to this.
Noor Rahim Via email
Please give us back those pristine parks
At the time we moved to Mount Lavinia five years ago, the Bellanwila park and the adjoining smaller park, were the best maintained and most scenic areas in the vicinity. So many people both young and old, enjoyed their soothing beauty on a daily basis.
Now the smaller park is completely overgrown and the bigger one is fast following in its heels. It’s a shame that this sad situation has been allowed to escalate unchecked.
Could the authorities take cognizance of this situation and remedy it as soon as possible? Please give us back the simple pleasures of life and the pristine surroundings that we delighted in!
Priyanthie de Silva Mount Lavinia
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