Letters to the Editor
View(s):The promise of Calvary
On Calvary’s darkening heights
The shameful, pathetic, pitiful sight
Of a crucified Christ
Hanging limply on a cross
Between two thieves – one morose
The other quoth –‘Remember me’
A humble plea.
“Thou shalt with me in Paradise be’
Christ’s promise of eternal life
‘Midst the throes of death’s beckoning night
To the repentant thief
‘I am the Resurrection and the Life’
This promise through the repentant thief to you and me
For ‘he bought our souls with his death on Calvary’.
- Jeannette Cabraal
A request on behalf of senior citizens with tax files
While grateful to the government for the envisaged increase in the threshold for Personal Tax from Rs 100,000 to 150,000 per month, we senior citizens would like to see a reinstatement of a category called Personal Expenditure.
What with the escalating drug costs (despite the decline of the dollar), and hospital bills that accrue as we pass three score and ten years, it is a must. For instance some of the cancer drugs remain on the non-essential drug list. Even a back-up demand for proof of expenses to verify the authenticity of claims could be accommodated.
I am sure I speak for the senior citizens with tax files.
Dr Channa Ratnatunga Via email
Recollecting the Ceylon pavilion of the British Empire exhibition
A century ago on April 23, 1924, King George V opened the British Empire Exhibition in London to showcase Britain’s colonies with exhibits from 56 territories that made up the Empire at the time.
The Ceylon Pavilion resembled the Temple of the Tooth and displayed many products including gems by Abdul Caffoor, tea, rubber, coconut palm, Kandyan silver and brass and lace and embroidery. The jewellery stalls attracted large crowds.
A 250-page handbook was published in Sri Lanka included sections on Ceylon in 1924, Archaeology, Agriculture, Cottage Industries, Gems and Minerals. The authors of the handbook were British experts and Sri Lankan luminaries such as Gate Mudaliyar A. E. Rajapakse, D.S. Senanayake and Mudaliyar Harry Jayawardene.
This exhibition was probably the high-water mark of the Empire. Little did they know that it would last only about another 40 years.
Dr. R. P. Fernando Epsom, UK
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