If Professor Senaka Bibile is Reborn

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Professor Senaka Bibile Reborn

This is my next book, since I am finishing my 5 books, soon.

I only listened to 5 lectures by him.

But my real mentor was Professor George E. Tennakoon.

Then he moved to SPC and I lost track of him and Pharmacology, altogether.

If I remember right, he did a random study on Vit C and හෙම්බිරිස්සාව.

I was on the control side.

I went on with my Army Drill at University Hockey Grounds during this study period daily finishing with climbing the rope at Gymnasium.

He said there is no difference whether I take Vit C or not but I continued to advocate Vit C since, I did not understand the logic of statistics until I did my own research at the age of 55.

This SAGA or my connection with my Alma Mator ended up,  finishing the "Swimming Pool" long postponed due to wrong contractual arrangements.

I never had a dip.

Two weeks after retirement I was walking back home from the University Grounds and I wanted to have a peep of the Swimming Pool but it was closed.

I never went to the University again, having left a note with the VC to say do not bother to invite me for any Official Function.

On a different issue I preferred handkerchief to tissues since one need not cut trees to produce tissues, if one is using a cotton handkerchief.

The advantage is I clean the handkerchief everyday and 7 handkerchiefs is enough for a weak which I continue to do to this day.

Of course, surgical type of hand washings is ingrained in me.

Then on a different issue prevelant in the public domain where one should not take a bath while having the symptoms of flu, I did have a bath before during and after to keep myself clean and to prove to my mother that folklores do not deter me doing things what I want to do.

I need a bath after physical workout.

My daily workout in the university was the Army Drill.

Then, of course, I did not lose touch with the Traditional Medicine and the effort muted of by CMC of Professor APR Aluwihare's practical attempt to integrate the clinical settings of both Traditional and Western Medicine in KMC's Free Consulation Outlets. I am not sure they are still functional.

I was born before Ventolin and Antibiotics.

How I survived was a mystery. My grand father was a Bare Foot Doctor. 

සිංහලෙන් සැනිටරි ඉනක්ස්පෙක්‌ටර්.

He was the only Sanitory Inspector who did house to house inspection dressed in British Tie and Coat garment.

Me adopting English dress etiquette was natural progression and me ending up as a Medical Man is no accident. It was designed in my Maternal Family Tree.

Coming to traditional medicine, ඉගූරු කොත්තමල්ලි steam bath inhalation was the best Upper Respiratory treatment available before Face Mask and Ventolin and Turbutalin, stand alone Inhalers to portable inhalers. The idea was to avoid Amniophylline IV infusion which is very risky with myocardial arrhythmias.

Still on traditional Medicine one of my maternal uncles (I think my allegic manifestations come from my father's side) asthnatic and single.

My grand farher was a crook. I come to him later.

My father unlike my grandfather looked after all his brothers neglected by grandfarher until all of them got a government job. None of them except me helped him (I was in UK on fulltime jobs) when he was down and under.

Coming to my poor uncle in total Respiratory Incompetence "ආඩතෝඩ" inhalation was the last resort treatment or death. He was in our house for weeks on end and suffice is to say as kids we were neglected by my father. If not for my mother I would have kicked the bucket. That is why I looked after my mother until 91 plus. I was not a big deal. Whole family contributed and I was the full-time coordinator.

It came to a point he had to mind himself and his boutique in Elkaduwa. He eventually died and it was my second funeral after my maternal grandfather.

Two points of Medical Interests before dishing out my grandfather the crook.

1. Point One

I discovered ventolin or its precursor was extracted from ආඩතෝඩ. 

Then there were of series of medical material extracted from ඒළ බටු to තිත්ත බටු to බටු.

My interest that was ignited by ආ ඩ තෝ ඩ ended me writing a book of Exotic Plants of Ceylon. It is only 250 pages but my real Botanical Tabulation is hindering the final outcome. I gave up at that point and concentrated on my other books.

The bottom line is 99% of the Western Medicine are pure extracts of plant products.

2. Point Two

This is my medical input and I have some grouse with Dr. Anthony Fausi on this issue regarding Face Mask and other things.

I left that book in Ceylon and there are no new editions.

Now few Prifessor Jayasena the name I could not bring out from my memory.

Other name was David Icke.

I need to go to AI now.

Thess habits I think I acquired from from Professor Senaka Bibile including wearing the simple bush shirt.

Then again Dr. Palitha Abeykoon and Malcolm Fernando got us involved in Kaduganmwa Survey which I enjoyed visitlng remort villages in Kandy.

Teldeniya where our Buddha was born is such a place.

Book Summary

1. Drop Satire but change to Political Wisdom

2. Tony Benn and Ken Livingstone 

3. Dhamma 

4. Enacting Senaka Bibile Principles 

5. What the patient got?

What is the price?

Who is giving it?

At what cost?

Is he better today as opposed to his time.

Loss of his life worth?

Any alternatives?

6. Simple English 

7. British Orator

8. Let memmory finds him.

7. Karl Marx

Available in some libraries.

8.

L. S. S. P was born in 1935

1. Dr. N. M. Perera

Leader

2. Lesley Gunawardene

Secretary

3. Dr. Colvin R De Silva

Lawyer 

4. Philip Gunawardene 

5. Robert Gunawardene 

6. Dr. Tissa Vitharana Virologist

The post is vacant. 

I think Lal Wijenayake next in line joined as the NPP/JVP coordinator and preventing this post being filled under JVP duress. 

He has no backbone and holding posts in two parties. 

One cannot be a Member of two Parties one and the same time.

M. R. I. which functioned badly under him.

I worked there for only 6 weeks under compulsion by Miss Doris Peiris my boss in Colombo General. I reported all the wrong doings at the MRI and also at CGH while sorting out all the blood films for her to review.

One day, I told her I got a good case for you.

What?

Red Cell Leukemia 

Do not con.

For 40 years I have seen none.

She confirmed it.

She said: once you finish the days work you ccan go anywhere you want.

I used to go to Colombo Medical Library and read all the reference material.

Soon after I left to UK.

I did a locum for Ceylonese Haematologist but he did not short list me for the post. 

I blasted him on our Ceylonese Doctors Party Not on broad day light but under dim lights. 

Nobody knew me who I was except one Dr. C. S. Nanayakkara.

I was the only Peradeniya Graduate on that occasion in that Party. 

I could slip out after one pint of beer. 

That is my maximum while in UK.

They used to bully me like a kid.

I gradually moved myself to Wine and I did not know which Wine, White or Red or Sparkling goes with the meal, fish, chicken and beef.

Then I moved into making Wine from තැඹිලි in පැනිදෙණිය without Yeast.

I did not tell them, I was a Very Special Old Arrack (V. S. O. A.) Guy.

That is my connection to Dr. N. M. Perera.

I called him පේ රේ රා the best Arrack on town.

Then, Keerthi Premaratne the brother of  Dr. Asoka Premaratne brings me a quarter bottle of VSOA on monthly basis until I stopped drinking arrack and transferred to Wine.

Professor Senaka Bibile was a member of LSSP

C. P. in 1943

Leader Dr. S. A. Weerasinghe

Professor Senaka Bibile was a socialist at heart who practised what he preached unlike most of the politicians.

He comes from Bibile Walawwa. 

I think he was disposed by CIA in Guana.

The same company who may have had a hand with CIA gives an annual oration.

I never went for any of those orations but post a blog post or national paper article  against the SORDID affair of CIA.

He established a National Formulary and got the leading consultants to contribute articles.

I have one of them as a souvenir in Ceylon.

None in the Medical Library.

කොලේ වහලා ගහන කාර්ඩ් ගේමක්

විනිශ්චය කරුවන්ගේ විශ්රාම වයස දික්කිරීම කොලේ වහලා ගහන බුරුවා ගැසීමක්.

චන්දදයකයා බුරුවාට ඇන්දීම නරක වැඩක්.

නංගි පෙන්නල අක්කා බැඳලා දෙන්න හදන්නේ.

 

රට බෙදන්න දෙන්න එපා.

Buddha Was Born In Ceylon

What is relevant here is LTTE rump left in Ceylon are deliberately destroying what remains in the North.

The Muslim extremists in the East are replacing the ancient artifacts with their mosques while the current Catholic/ Christian Minister turns a blind eye to these SORDID acts.

What even the British could not achieve current Cardinal is pursuing with vengeance.

1. Buddha was born in Teldeniya, Kandy and his remains were cremated in Anuradhapura under Ruwanweli Saya.

Qeen Elizabeth made sure this place goes under water of Bowatenna to erase any traces of Buddha born in Ceylon.

Mr. Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi has collected enough and more evidence to support this fact and British Kings and Queens wanted to bury these historical facts.

This guy Paranavithana who is by all means a Christian Priest was earmarked to falsify evidence to that effect.

Reason.

Church of England wanted to make Ceylon their base to spread of Christianity in the Asian Subcontinent.

Indians were happy to support this stance with so many "Niganta Natha Puthras" in naked and  conjugal bonds with opposite  sex, spreading "Kama Sutra" of India.

My mother wanted to go to every place of Buddhist worship in Ceylon for thousands times. 

Having seen these statues in conjugal bonds in her 70s she never wanted go to India again.

2. Buddha attained Nirvana somewhere closed to Dambulla.

Dambulu Vihara is a monument to this historical fact.

3. Buddha walked length and breath of Ceylon.

a) Kaleniya to settle disputes with Yakka Tribe.

b) Mahiyanganaya to settle disputes with Naga.

c) Nagadeepa in Jaffna to settle Naga dispute 

Sripada or Adam's Peak 

There were no statues in early history of ours except stone pillars and stone edits.

On "the supposed to be the last visit", Buddha was asked for a place of worship. 

He had placed the imprint of right foot on Sripada and the imprint or the left foot on Makkama on the West coast of Ceylon. 

This was either destroyed by the Portuguese or most likely submerged in sea near Karapitiya and Puttalam range.

Mecca in Middle East is a subsequent creation by Muslim traders in the Middle East.

Tribes

Dominating the Sive Hela or 4 regions.

1. Yaksha

There were intercine conflicts and Yakkshas dominated.

2. Naga

Naga retreated to costsl regions.

3. Dewa

Remained in the cental regions protected by forest and elephants.

4. Rakshashas

Probably lived in Kelaniya or on the central forests. 

There were many leaders vying for different regions of Ceylon.

RAVANA who defeated RAMA of India is one of them. 

Whereas, his brother Wibhisana was a benevolent guy. 

There is lot of mythology introduced by Indian writers and the true nature is not apparent.

My guess is they were an advanced civilization of forest dwelling who feared nobody and fight to death if challenged.

Some like RAVANA was more adventurist and he does not portray the true makeup of the whole entity.

Nevertheless, they ruled Ceylon in a particular prehistoric time.

Taking 30,000 years backward of Ceylon history with 4 Buddhas in Ceylon, Kakusanda, Konagama  Kashshapa and Gotama, this tribe cannot be described as a brutal, as depicted in Indian historical mythology in their books.

Factually speaking, Kalinga and Magha did destroy our historical records and planted their own version, just like the British did during their 150 years of occupation

What is evident is Indian feared them and concocted false narrative since, Indians always opposed Buddha and his Teaching. 

That is why there are no Buddhists in India to this day.

Maithree Buddha is to be born in Ceylon in the future when the 5 conditions are satisfied.

 

1. Time

 

2. Place or Island

 

3. High upbringing or Sakkya (opposing violence of all types.

Metta is their theme.

 

4. Mother 

 

5. One who has fulfilled and destined to become the Next Buddha.

Sura the good guys ended by becoming Manu or Manussa.

Brainy guys.

Asura the bad guys who preferred to settle disputes with war ended up in other 3 types.

These 4 tribes interbred.

Buddha is supposed to be Manu Tribe.

He Settled disputes with dialogue and with counter arguments against violence.

Buddha's final retreat was Anuradhapura.

He moved from Dambulla to Anuradhapura and this voyage had been the most difficult part of his life. 

Probably he became sick during this voyage.

Other story is Buddha died in Dambulla and the remains were taken to Anuradhapura. 

I do not proscribe to that view.

Buddha's remains are buried very deep under the Ruwanweli Saya.

There supposed to have been massive stone structures on the way from Dambulla to Anuradhapura.

Malaria Epidemic pushed people away from the dry zone.

British destroyed all these stone structures spreading up from Dambulla to Anuradhapura.

Locals did not help in construction work and the British brought in, Indian labour to do the destruction of massive stone structures.

The very stones fragments were used to built the road to Anuradhapura.

British plan was to plunder any archaeological artifacts left in Anuradhapura which were destroyed originally by Tamils and Cholas who came from India.

Kalings Magha regime of India did enormous damage to hour historical artifacts while building Hindu Kovils.

At one time the local dialect was Tamil and how Singhala got established is a mystery to me. 

I may be WRONG here.

It may have been a tone down version of Pali while grammatical syntax of the Pali was substituted with simple and vocal syntax.

Finishing touches to the concocted history were done by  Buddhagosha and Mahanama in their BOGUS Mahavansa.

රාජ් සෝමදේව ලංකා ඉතිහාස පොත කැඳහැලියක් කිරීම

රාජ් සෝමදේව LTTE තැරව් කාරයෙකි.

ඔහුට දමිළ සම්බවයක් ඇති නිසා ලංකාව ගැන ලියනකොට පොඩි ඉර්සියාවක් පහළ වී ඇති බව විශ්රාමගිය වෛද්‍ය වරයෙක් ලෙස මට හැගීමක් පහළ වෙයි.

එය සාධාරිකරණය කිරීම පහසුය.

පරනවිතාණ මෙන් සමහර කොටස් අස්සේ හන්ගලා උපේ බඩට ගහනවා.

පරිස්සමින් වෙන්න.

Father of FREE Education-C.W.W. Kannaggara

 

Father of FREE Education-C.W.W. Kannaggara

Father of FREE Education-C.W.W. Kannaggara

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කුහකකම වෙනුවෙන් අපි‘ හෙවත් අමතක කළ කන්නන්ගර..!

චාමර ලක්ෂාන්ගේ සටහන

(ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් -2016.ඔක්.22, ප.ව.4.45) 

මේ සටහන ලිවීමට පෙලඹවූයේ එංගලන්තයේ සිටින මනීෂ චාමර අමරසේකර තම ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුමට තැබු සටහනක් මා තුළ ඇතිකළ කම්පනයයි.

 

සැතපුම් දහස් ගණනක් ඈතින් සිටිය ද තවමත් රට තොට සිදුවන දෑ පිළිබඳ උනන්දුවෙන් සිටින්නකු වන මනීෂ “කොටා” තිබු සටහන සැබැවින්ම, සංවේදී එකක් ම විය. 

ඔහු ලියා තිබුණේ නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ පියා ලෙස සැලකෙන සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර මහතා පිළිබඳවය. 

චේ ගැන පොස්ට් දුටුවෙමි. 

සැමරුම් උත්සව පාපැදි සවාරි දුටුවෙමි. ඔහු ලංකාවට හෝ මෙහි මිනිසුන්ට කළ දෙයක් මා නම් අසා නැත. 

පසුගිය 13 වැනිදා නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ පියා වන කන්නන්ගර මහතාගේ 132 වැනි ජන්ම දිනය යෙදී තිබිණි. 

 සැමරුම් නැත. 

පෝස්ට් නැත. 

නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ අයිතිකරුවන් වී සිටින අන්තරයට අදාළම නැත.

 

කැම්පස්වල චේගේ රූපය ඇතිමුත් කන්නන්ගරගේ රූපය නැත. 

ඔහු නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපන පනත හඳුන්වා දෙන විට ජවිපෙ, එජාප හෝ ශ්‍රීලනිපය බිහි වී වත් නැත. 

 

බණ්ඩාරනායකලා, සේනානායකලා, රාජපක්ෂලා, ඉල්මහ විරුවන් සමරන රටේ එතුමා ගැන පුවතක්වත් පළ නොවීම කනගාටුදායකය. 

එතුමා නොසිටින්නට අද බහුතරයක් අයට චේ සමරන්න තියා චේ වචනයවත් කියවීමට හැකියාවක් නොතිබෙන්නට තිබිණි. 

ලංකාව වටේ ඇති අනිත් රටවල සාක්ෂරතාව බැලීම පමණක් මා කියන දෙය තේරුම් ගැනීමට ඉවහල් වනු ඇත.” (උපුටා ගැනුම අවසන්)

මේ රට වෙනුවෙන් කිසිදු සාධනීය මැදිහත් වීමක් සිදු කර නොමැති පුද්ගලයන් සැමරීමට දින ගණන් කාලය කා දමන රටක පිටු ගණන් කඩදාසි කොළ නාස්ති කරන පැය ගණන් තම මාධ්‍ය අවකාශය අවභාවිතාවේ යොදවන රටක සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර වැනි මාහැඟි සේවාවක් මේ රට වෙනුවෙන් කළ පුද්ගලයකු අමතක වීම යනු එක් අතකින් විමතිය දනවන කාරණයක් ම නොවේ.

 

තාක්ෂණයෙන් ඩිජිටල් වූවත් සංස්කෘතියෙත් තවමත් ගල් යුගයේ ජීවත් වන ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ගේ සැබෑ ස්වභාවය මෙයයි. 

එසේ කියා ආචාර්ය සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර වැන්නකු පහසුවෙන් අපට අමතක කළ හැකි ද යන්න පැහැදිලි ප්‍රශ්නාර්ථයකි. 

ඒ ඔහු මේ රට වෙනුවෙන් කර ඇති අද්විතීය මෙහෙවර දෙස අවධානය යොමු කරන ‍කලය.
වචනයේ පරිසමාප්ත අර්ථයෙන්ම දැවැන්ත විප්ලවයක් කන්නන්ගර මහතාගේ මැදිහත් වීම තුළ මෙරට සමාජ දේහය තුළ සිදු විණි. 

නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපන පනත හඳුන්වා දෙමින් අධ්‍යාපනයට ප්‍රවේශ වීමට ඇති අයිතිය ඈත ගම්බද දරුවන්ට ලබා දීම තුළ සිදු වූ විප්ලවය පිළිබඳව අටුවා ටීකා ටිප්පණි පැවසීම අවශ්‍ය නැත. 

කැලේ පිපුණු මල් කැලේම පර වී නොයන්නට එය ඉඩ සැලසුවේය. 

තවත් සරලව කිවහොත් නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනය නොතිබිණි නම් ඈත ගම්වල අති බහුතරයක් දෙනා අධිපති ගෙවල්වල මෙහෙකරුවන් වන්නට ඉඩ තිබිණි. 

මේ සියලු අර්ථයන් ගෙන බලද්දී ආචාර්ය සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර යනු දැවැන්ත යුග පුරුෂයෙක්මය.

1945 ජූලියේදී නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපන පනත සම්මත වීමෙන් පසු කන්නන්ගර මහතා සභා ගැබෙන් පිටතට පැමිණෙද්දී ඔහු අසලට අමුත්තෙක් කිට්ටු විය. 

ඒ එවකට කොළඹ ඉන්දියානු මහකොමසාරිස්වරයා ලෙස කටයුතු කළ එච්.එම්. ආනේ මහතාය.

“අයියා අපේ රටේ ඉපදිලා මේ වගේ පනතක් ඉදිරිපත් කළා නම් දෙවියන්ට වගේ සලකනවා.” ඔහු කන්නන්ගර මහතාට අත දෙමින් එසේ පැවසුවේය.

 

ඉන්දියානුවන් එසේ කරන බව පැවසුව ද අපේ අය නම් කන්නන්ගර මහතාට 1947 මහ මැතිවරණයේදී ඉහළම සැලකිල්ල දැක්වූයේ ඔහුව පරාජයට පත් කරමිනි.

නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ පියා ගෙදර යවමින් ධන කුවේරයකු වූ විල්මට් ඒ. පෙරේරාව රටේ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකයට පත් කිරීමට තරම් පස්යොදුන් කෝරලයේ ජනතාව එදා අකෘතඥ වී තිබිණි.

දේශපාලනඥයකු ලෙස කන්නන්ගර මහතාගේ අගය වැඩි කරනුයේ ඔහු එය තම පැවැත්ම වෙනුවෙන් කිසිදා භාවිත නොකළ කෙනකු බැවිනි. වසර විස්සකට වැඩි කාලයක් රටේ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය නියෝජනය කළ ද පෞද්ගලිකව ලාභ උපරීම කරගැනීමේ අදහසක් ඔහුට කිසි දිනක නොතිබිණි. 

ඒ නිසාම ජිවිතයේ සැඳෑ කාලය සතුටින් ගෙවීමට තරම් හැකියාවක් ඔහුට නොවීය. 

1961 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 26 වැනි දින නියෝජිත මන්ත්‍රී මණ්ඩලයේ කථානායක ආර්.එස්. පැල්පොල මහතා වෙත කන්නන්ගර මහතා යැවූ ලිපිය අපට පෙන්වා දෙනුයේ අවංක දේශපාලනඥයකුගේ ශෝකාලාපය මිස වෙනෙකක් නොවේ. ජීවත්වීම සඳහා තමනට පිං පඩියක් ඉල්ලමින් කන්නන්ගර මහතා යැවූ ඒ මුල් ලිපියේ කොටස් දෙකක් මෙසේ උපුටා දක්වමි.

සී. ඩබ්ලිව්. ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර
නො. 36,
තිඹිරිගස්යාය පාර,
හැව්ලොක් ටවුම,
කොළඹ 06.
1961 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 26 දිනදීය.
ශ්‍රී ලංකා නියෝජිත මන්ත්‍රී මණ්ඩලයේ කථානායක ගරු ආර්.එස්. පැල්පොල මැතිතුමා වෙතයි.
රජයේ ඉහළම රාජ්‍ය සභාවල සියවස් කාලකටත් වැඩි කාලයක් සේවය කිරීමෙන් පසුව මා දැනට පත්වී තිබෙන අසරණ තත්ත්වයන් නිසා හදිසි මූල්‍යමය ආධාරයක් අපේක්ෂාවෙන් මෙම ඉල්ලීම ඔබතුමා වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කරන බව ගෞරවාන්විතව දන්වා සිටිමි.
මගේ මේ ඉල්ලීම ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට හේතු සාධක වශයෙන් පහත සඳහන් වැදගත් කරුණු කිහිපය ඔබතුමා ඉදිරියේ තැබීමට අදහස් කරමි.

ආයෝජනවලින්, නිවාසවලින්, ඉඩකඩම්වලින් හෝ වෙනත් ප්‍රභවයන්ගෙන් මට කිසිදු පෞද්ගලික ආදායමක් නොලැබෙන බැවින් මා වසර ගණනාවකම යැපුණේ මගේ මිත්‍රයින්ගෙන් හා හිතවතුන්ගෙන් ලැබුණු පරිත්‍යාගවලිනි. 

මගේ සෞඛ්‍ය රැකගැනීම සඳහා කළ යුතු අත්‍යවශ්‍ය වියදම් වෙනුවෙන් ගෙවිය යුතු බිල්පත් දිනපතා ගොඩගැසෙමින් පවතී. මිත්‍රයන්ගෙන් හා නැදෑයන්ගෙන් සහනාධාර යැදීම සියවසකින් තුනෙන් එකක් තරම් වූ කාලයක් තිස්සේ රජයේ ඇමැති තනතුරක් දැරූ මා වැන්නකුට කිසිසේත් තරම් නොවන බවට ඔබතුමා ද එකඟ වනු ඇත යනු මාගේ විශ්වාසයයි.

රජයෙන් ක්ෂණික සහනයක් අපේක්ෂාවෙන් මගේ මේ ආයාචනය ඔබතුමා වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නේ අද මා මුහුණ පා සිටින අවාසනාවන්ත තත්ත්වය නිසාම බැව් සැලකුව මැනවි.

 

එසේම සියවස් කාලකට වැඩි කාලයක් තිස්සේ මගෙන් කිසියම් ගෞරවයකට හා පිළිගැනීමකට ලක් වූ සේවයක් ඉටු වී ඇති බව ද මා අදහස් කරන නිසාත්ය.
ඒ වගත් මෙසේම
ඔබතුමාගේ යටහත් කීකරු සේවක
සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර
(මුල් ලිපියේ කොටස් දෙකක් පමණි) 
ජාතියට දේශයට නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ ආශීර්වාදය ලබා දුන් ආචාර්ය සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර ඇමැතිතුමාට අවසානයේදී අත් වූයේ එවන් දුක්ඛදායක ඉරණමකි.
මේ ඉල්ලීමට ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වමින් එතුමාට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් රුපියල් දසදහසක පාරිතෝෂික මුදලක් ගෙවූ අතර, පසුව මසකට රුපියල් 500 බැගින් පින් පඩියක් පිරිනැමිණ.
පසුව බලයට පැමිණි රජය යටතේ එම මුදල රුපියල් 1000 දක්වා වැඩි කරන ලදී. මේ ආකාරයට දුක්ඛිත දිවියක් ගෙවූ කන්නන්ගර මහතා 1969 සැප්තැම්බර් 23 වැනිදා මිය පරලොව ගියේ තවත් අමතක කර දමනු ලැබූ පුද්ගලයකු වශයෙනි.
සී.ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩබ්ලිව්. කන්නන්ගර වැනි පරමාදර්ශි දේශපාලනඥයන්ගෙන් ආදර්ශ ලබා ගන්නවා වෙනුවට අපේ බහුතරයක් දේශපාලනඥයන් පෙලඹී ඇත්තේ ඊට පිටුපෑමටය. 

ඒ වග පෙන්වීමට උදාහරණ අනන්තවත් සැපයිය හැකිය. එජාප හා ශ්‍රීලනිපය නියෝජනය කරන ඇමැතිවරුන් දෙදෙනකු හබරාදුව ප්‍රදේශයේ එකම පාරක් දෙකොනින් විවෘත කර රට හිනස්සවා තවම ගතව ඇත්තේ දින කිහිපයකි. 

සිනාසීම වෙනුවට මෙම කාරණය දේශපාලනඥයන්ගේ කාර්යභාරය කුමක් විය යුතු ද යන්න සිතා බැලීමේ අවස්ථාවක් අපට ලබා දෙයි. 

1948 සිට ක්‍රියාත්මක ජනප්‍රිය දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතියෙන් පිට පැනීමට තවමත් අපේ දේශපාලනඥයන්ට නොහැකි වී ඇති බව පීත්ත පටි කපමින් කරන මේ මාදිලියේ විවෘත කිරීම්වලට තවමත් ඔවුන් සම්බන්ධ වීමෙන් පෙනී යයි. 

ජනතා කැමැත්ත දිනු දේශපාලනඥයකුගේ කාර්යභාරය විය යුත්තේ පීත්ත පටි කැපීම, ඡන්දදායකයන්ගේ මඟුලට, අවමඟුලට සහභාගි වීම නොව රට හා එහි වැසියන් වෙනුවෙන් ප්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදනයයි. 

මෙසේ පීත්ත පටි කැපීමට යෑමෙන් සිදු වනුයේ ප්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදනයට ඇති කාලය අපතේ යෑමකි. ප්‍රාදේශීය හා පළාත් සභා මට්ටම නියෝජනය කරමින් ඒ ඒ තලවල දේශපාලනඥයන් කොතරම් සිටිය ද පාරක් විවෘත කිරීමට වීදි ලාම්පු විවෘත කිරීම වැනි සරල කාරණාවලට පවා සම්බන්ධ වීමට කැමැත්ත දක්වන ජාතික තලයේ දේශපාලනඥයන් අතිබහුතරයක් මේ රටේ සිටිති. 

පීත්ත පටි කැපීමට දක්වන උනන්දුව ප්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදනයට හා සමාන්තර වෙනත් රටවල සාර්ථකත්වයේ අත්දැකීම් ගැන කියැවීමට ඔවුන් වැය කළේ නම් සැබැවින්ම මේ රට සුරපුරයක් බවට පත් වී බොහෝ කල්ය.

හුදු ප්‍රදර්ශන කාමයට අමතරව වරප්‍රසාද පසුපස හඹා යෑමට වත්මන් දේශපාලනඥයන් තුළ ඇති කැමැත්ත රටේ දේශපාලනය තවත් දුර්වර්ණ ගන්වයි. 

දේශපාලන බලය හා වරප්‍රසාද අතර ඉතා කිට්ටු සම්බන්ධතාවක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වැනි දේශපාලන වශයෙන් අව-සංවර්ධිත රටක පැහැදිලිවම දැකගත හැකිය. 

සාමාන්‍යයෙන් දියුණු යැයි සම්මත රටවල බලයට පත්වීම යන යෙදුම හෝ දේශපාලන ශබ්ද කෝෂය තුළ දක්නට නොමැති අතර ඒ වෙනුවට ඇත්තේ ‘කමින් ටු ඔෆිස්’ නොඑසේ නම්: කාර්යාලයට පැමිණ රාජකාරි කටයුතු ඇරැඹීම යන්නය.

බොහෝ රටවල් ‘කමින් ටු ඔෆිස්’ කියද්දී අපි තවමත් ‘කමින් ටු පවර්’ යනුවෙන් කියමින් සිටින්නෙමු. එය, අපට ගැටලුවක් වුවද දේශපාලනඥයන්ට නම් වරප්‍රසාදවලින් තොරව පැවැත්මක් නොමැති බව දිගින් දිගටම පෙනෙන්නට තිබීම අතිශයින්ම කනගාටුදායකය.

-චාමර ලක්ෂාන් කුමාර විසිනි-

සත්‍යට මුහුණ නොදෙන්නා අසත්‍යයෙන් මියයයි

මේ ධර්මපදයක් නොව මගේ ලංකාව ගැන දේශපාලන කියවීමක්.

බොරු අම්බානක කියලා බලය ලබා ගෙන, එළබෙන ප්‍රශ්න වලට මුහුණ දෙන්න බැරිකළ ජනතාව ගොනාට ඇන්ද වීම තමයි මේකට කියන්නේ.

සිංහල යතුරුපුවරුව

මේ සිංහල Desh යතුරු පුවරුවය. 

තනි ඇඟිල්ලෙන් ලියන්න පුලුවන්ය.

අකුරක් වැරදුනොත් තොරා ගැනීමට පුවරුවේ ඉහල තට්ටුවේ අකුරු පෙලක් ඇත.

අනගිය.

නොබෙල් ත්‍යාගයට මම එම මේවලම තෝරා ගත්තෙමි.

ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට ඇසල පෙරහැර සන්නිය වැලදීලාද?

මට පෙනෙන විදියට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට ඇසල සන්නිය වැලදීලා ඇත.

මෙය පිස්සු බලු රෝගය තරමට අසාද්‍යවෙලා ඇති නමුත් සුව කරන බෙහෙතක් නැත.

ඇසල පෙරහැරේ සංස්කෘතික අංශයේ කොටසක් වන අලි ඇතුන් සක්මන් කිරීම නවත්වන්න පොලු ඇරන් සටනට බැස ඇත.

අනේ අනිච්චන්.

නුවර පෙරහැර මා නොදත් කරුණු

ආරම්බය 

1. කප් සිටුවීම 

කිරි ගසකිං අලුත් ලීයක්  නොහොත් දැවැයක්යක් සකස් කිරීම

පොත්ත ගලවලා පිරිසිදු සුදු රෙදි කඩකින් වසා අලුත්නුවර දැඩිමුන්ඩ රජමහා දේවස්ථානයේ සිට මහනුවර ගෙන ඒම.

මෙම ලීය කොටස් 4කට කපා සතර දේවාල වල සිටවීම 

උඩු වියන් සහිත සතර පැති වලින් වටවු කොටුවක් සකස් කිරීම.

මෙය කපුවාගේ යුතුකම වේ.

මේවා සියල්ලම ද්‍රවිඩ රජවරුන්ට යටත්ව සිටින කාලයේදී ලංකාවට ඉන්දියාවෙන් ආදේශ කල පුහු වතාවත්ය.

කුලය, පුද්ගලවාදය සහ පිරිමින්ගේ ප්‍රමුඛත්වය තහවුරු කරගන්න සාදාගත් මානසික මෙහෙයවීම්ය.

මේවා බෞද්ධ මුල ධර්මයන්ට පටහැනිය.

මම සංකෘතික වටිනාකම බැහැර නොකරමි. 

පොඩි ගසක් හෝ කපනවාට මම විරුද්ද වන්නෙමි.

ගැහැණුන් මෙම උත්සව වලින්  සම්පුර්ණයෙන්ම බැහැර කර ඇත 

කොස් හෝ අඹ ගසකින් ලබා ගැනෙයි.

2. ගැටඹේ දිය කපන උත්සවය 

පාරම්පරික වශයෙන් මෙය වැදගත්ය.

ජලය ජිවයේ මුල් පුරුකය.

කෘෂිකාර්මික රටක් පවතින්නේ කලට වැසි වසීමත් ඇස්වනු නෙලන විට වියළි 

දේශගුණයක් පැවැත්මයි.

පාලකයන් දුර්ධාන්ත වෙනවිට දේශගුණ විපර්යාස වෙනබවට ජනමනසේ පැලපදියන් වී ඇත්තේ ඒ නිසාය.

පෙරහැර අවසන් වූ බව දන්වන්නේ කලගෙඩියකට මහවැලි ගංගාවේ ජලය පෙරහැරින් වඩමවා මාලිගාවේ සහ සතර දේවාලවල තැන්පත් කිරීමෙන් පසුවය.

කළගෙඩිය අපේ උරුමයකි.

කලගෙඩියක වතුර සිසිල්ය.

මුදල් වැයවන ශිතකරන අවශ්‍ය නැත.

දුර්ධාාන්ත ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට මේවා අරහන් වුනාට ඔඋන් සිටින විටත් නැති විටත් අපේ සංඝසමාජය මේ උරුමයන් ආරක්ෂා කරනු ඇත.

සුද්දන් කාලේ කරපුවා කාඩිනල්ට ඕනෑකමට නටබුන් කරන්න දෙන්න එපා.

රිලොර්ඩ් කාර්දිනල් කම්මුතුයි

රිලොර්ඩ් කාදිනල් කප්ගහන එක නියතයි.

පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයේ මහ මොලකරුට ලෝගුවේ යට රිංගන්න බැහැ.

ලෝගුව ගලවලා බලන්නත් බැහැ.

හතර බිහිරි කතාව කියන්නේ මේ වගේ ඔලමොට්ටල වැඩ වලටයි. 

පාලු ගෙයි වලං බින්දා ඇති, එක්සත් වෙමු

පාලු ගෙයි වළං බිදලා ආපු නරුමයන් පළවා හැර බෞද්ධ සිංහල උරුමය රැකගන්න කාලය එළබ ඇත. 

එක්සත් වෙමු.

මෙය ගොරකයන් සහ බුද්ධිමත් දේශපාලන විචාරකයන් අතර ඇති ගැටුමක්.

නිදහස්, නිවහල්, සුවෛර්ය රාජ්ජයක් ගොඩ නැගීමට අවශෂ්‍ය කරුණු

තඩියමට කොරස් කටටත් අත දාන්න බෑ කියලා කතාවක් තියෙන්නේ කාඩ්නල් වගේ අයට 

මේ කරුණු උසාවිවල විනිශ්චයකරුවන්ටද අදාලය.

පුජකපක්ෂයට,  විශේෂයෙන් පල්ලියේ කාදිනල්ට තිබිය යුතුයි 

1. සුවෛර්යභාවය 

2. එක්සත්බව 

3. සාධාරණබව 

4. උද්යෝගමත්බව 

5. අවංකබව‍ 

6. නුවනැතිබව 

7. නිෂ්පාදනශීලිබව 

8. නිරෝගීබව 

9. නිහතමානීබව 

10. අලංකාරත්වය 

නැතුව වෛරයෙන් රට ගොඩ නගන්න බැහැ.

නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු තක්කඩියෙක්

What is appropriate for this guy in Dhammapada Verses is Papa agga or EVIL.

ධම්මපාදයේ මේ පුද්ගලයාට සුදුසු දහම් කන්ඩ ඇත්තේ පාප වග්ගයෙහිය.

මිතුරෙකු සෙ පැමිණ අනෙක් පුද්ගලයා වලකට දැමීමක් කෙරෙන්නේ.

සිගලොවාද සුත්‍රයේ වදන් ඔහුට යෝග්‍යය.

නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවකු:

තක්කඩියෙක් 

 

බොරු කාරයෙක් 

 

ඩීල් කාරයෙක් 

 

මුදල් විශුද්දීකරන පුද්ගලයෙක් 

 

උසාවියේ කෝට්එක ගලවාවලා දාපූ කෙනෙක් 

ජනාධිපතිවරනයකට ඉදිරිපත් වීමට සුසුදුකම් නොමැති කෙනෙක් 

ආදායම් බදු (Income Tax) වංචනිකයෙක් 

ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ඔත්තු කාරයෙක් 

ඔහු ගැන මම නොදන්නා කාරණා රාශියකි

ඉදිරියට ඒවා එලියට ඒනු ඇතැයි මම බලාපොරුත්තු වෙමි.

ඔහුට මුදල් වලින් දායක නොවන්න වගබලාගන්න.

 

පරිස්සමින් වෙන්න.

සිගාලොවාද සුත්‍රයට අනුව, ගෙදෙරකට වැද්දගැනීමට නුසුදුසු පුද්ගලයෙක්.

මට හිතෙන විදිහට, කටපාඩම් කළ "දහම් පද" වැරදියට යොදන කෙනෙක්.

ඔහු ධම්මපදය හරියට කියවලා නැති කෙනෙක් 

මෙවන්නන්ට සුදුසු දහම් කාණ්ඩය පසුව සදහන් කරනම්. 

 

ශාවකයා නොමග යැවීම දරුණු අපරාදයකි.

සුනිල් ආරියරත්න නැන්දා මාලනීය නොමරා මැරුවා

සුනිල් ආරියරත්න නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු ගානයේ කපටි දේශපාලන උප්පරවැට්ටි කාරයෙකි.

අහෝ අහිංසක නන්දා මාලිනිය දේශපාලන කඩතුරාවකින් වැසි ගොසිනි.

ඒ සුන්දර කට හඬ අප අතර------=== ඇත සහ නැත.

මට ඒ ගීත වල දේශපාලන අරුත තේරුම් ගියද පදවල අරුත දැනටත් තේරුම් ගත නොහැකිය.

නන්දා මාලිනියටත් ඒම පදවල අරුත මිය යන්නට ටික කලකට පෙර තේරුම් ගියා යයි මම අනුමාන කරන්නෙමි.

ඇයගේ නිහඩ සමු ගැනීමට හේතුව එය විය හැකිය.

මම වැරදි නම් සමාවන්න.

නමුත්, සුනිල් ආරියරත්න රාජ කපටියෙක්.

VITAMIN C and Brain Size of Adults

VITAMIN C and Brain Size of Adults  

This is to highlight an article published in NEJM on the 10th of July, 2026 by mainly Japanese authors.

There is a definite relationship with brain size and probably low incidence of dementia on non alcoholic individuals.

I do not believe that neural connections are permanent entities and no change can happen after birth. 

It is shown in serious meditators the neural connections blossom at Jhana level 1 to 5. 

Low dose of Vitamin C regularly enhance neural connections and thereby memory and attention span.

Poor sleeping or break in sleep has adverse effect on Memory and Attention.

It is prudent to suck a Vit C tablet at Day Break to mitigate this untoward manifestation.

I am not sure of the effect of Vit C on melatonin release.

On a different line of investigation, my friend Dr. Chandrasekara who is blind now discovered many moons ago that periodontists or gum disease has direct relationship with cardiovascular episodes. His research is confirmed by many other works on both these fields.

My connection is the relevance of atherosclerosis and heart disease.

1. Atherosclerosis does not cause heart disease. It is harmless deposition of extra fatty material on blood vessels. Abdominal Aorta is the major site. I won't talk about this Fatty Acid SAGA and Cholesterol except it is one component of large number of Fatty Acids.

2. Inflammation at the site of Fatty Deposits precipitates "fatty acids shower" that causes TIA and Stroke long before the first heart attack in many individuals. These episodes are painless unlike angina and many patients ignore these symptoms as mundane.

Treatment is simple.

Low dose Aspirin Therapy.

3. Inflammation is caused by Microscopic Injury that set in motion of release of Interleukin.

4. Periodontists cause the release of Interleukin and that was my friends contribution and the relationship of heart attacks.

5. All my life I was teaching Inflammation and I can remember my old Professor George Tennakoon finishing the introductory lecture series for our students saying: 

There are inflammatory mediators in inflammation and learn them from this Dr.......

Then back at the department he gives me all the references from American Journal Pathology.

Of course, I graduated to NEJM which is again an American publication.

I hated British BMJ and it's British English.

Other benefits of VIT C include: 

Potentiates Memory and Attention

Prevention of Macular Degeneration in eyes.

Possible lower incidence of heart attacks due to antioxidant activity.

No relationship with flue or the duration of the flu.

Dose of VITAMIN C

50mg assuming with the contribution from food (banana, lime, lemon mandarin and oranges), one gets the required 75mg a day.

Body does not produce Vit C.

My bone or contention is one cannot be sure how much one gets from a fruits and vegetables. 

There is no label on the fruit and the size of the fruit that has 75mg.

The quantity of Vit C in a tablet is well known. So taking the tablet makes our life simple. No complications.

It is the ripe banana that has Vit C and all the Hexose and Penose sugars.

There is a caveat here.

Tablets available are 500mg.

Simply, just divide the tablet to 4 pieces and one gets 125mg. Assuming that the tablet is not made to High Quality, one can ignore the excess 50mg.

If one take the 1000mg (2 tablets) the excess is passed in the urine causing light burning sensation. Only the very high doses cause oxalic acid stones in the urine.

1. NEJM is my number 1 journal for over 50+ years.

I am not a fan of BMJ especially because of its language style. Whereas, NEJM has a crisp and direct language style and there are no Shakespearean twist in expression.

2. I was very much involved in childhood nutrition and milk formulae from SMA, Cow and Gate, Anchor and Vitamilk. 

I am not a fan of Indian Amul milk.

Equally fan of milk toffee made of Nestlé Milkmaid condensed milk.

I am not familiar with Danish Arla and Australian milk Devondale and Woolworth 

3. My interest was VITAMIN fortified milk not the standard milk.

In that sense SMA and Cow and Gate were my favorites.

4. Even though Expressed Breast Milk was an option for babies maintaining a Milk Bank except for Neonates was not feasible.

5. One has to look at the label on the milk cartoon or tin to see the composition. Little bit of iron and trace elements like zinc, copper and selenium are invariable in some formulae.

Cardinal's Link to X - Press Pearl's Company

Hypothesis is that Cardinal was bribed by the X - Press Pearl Company to influence "Decision Making" by President and the Chief Justice. 

President is dumb intellectually but he can twist any "Mundane Stuff" to his political advantage.

This Cardinal guy has a big weakness.

He pokes his finger inappropriately.

His hand is visible from the time of "අරගලය".

He wants to claim the full credit and a Title in the Vatican.

God Bless Vatican.

Crafty Crook.

His aim is not fairness but "Political Victimization".

He does not let the "Natural Justice" to take its precidence.

He is in the same line as "Kakki Sudha".

"කක්කි සුධා" approach.

He is a big liability.

The Church is above the law of the country is His Principle.

"හැම තැනටම හොට දාන කොට්ටෝරුවා වගේයි". 

"කාඩිනල් (මෙයා) දැන් කෙහෙල් ගසටත් කොටනවා".

I had long discussion with "AI" since I am not a lawyer.

The extension of the retirement age to the present Chief Justice is relevant here. 

He cannot sit in judgement of this case.

A Referendum is Mandatory is my opinion.

The people should have the right to decide even though I think the average citizen is STUPID and has no understanding of the legal implications.

At a Referendum both side of the divide can expalain to the electorate pros and cons.

It is not a "Political Stance or Stunt" but a basic legal requirement.

Anura only got 46%.

LTTE rump is financing him to divide the country on Ethnic and Religious grounds.

It is pretty obvious.

The legal predicament effects all irrespective of the ethnicity or religious background.

Fairness takes the back door instead of the front door.

It is a back door political dealing where a certain political agenda is controling the outcome.

Cardinal also want to divide the country.

 

"කලගෙඩි සෙල්ලම" දෙවැනි පරිච්ඡේදය ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ හැරවුම් ලක්ෂණයක්‌ වෙනු ඇත.

මෙහි බ්ලොග් සටහන කියවන්න.

"කතෝලික පල්ලියේ කෘමත්‍රණය" නමින් ලිපියක් ලීවේ ඒ නිසාය.

Naganda Kodituwakku of Transparency International has made a formal complaint. 

I do not think that he is fair. 

He is a crook.

He has to settle a political or a legal grudge.

The fact that he is aligning with NPP/JVP makes him a political agent.

He has a grude with a particular judge or judges for derobing his lawyer's mantle.

He is biased.

He is not a lawyer.

I call him the "නාගයා" due to the "Circuitous Process" he has taken.

He has gone to the Bribery Commisdion.

The Chief of Bribery Commission is a NVP/JVP activist.

We cannot expect Transparency from both these parties, namely NPP/JVP and නාගයා.

The judgement is secretly made in a  "Political Circle" with vested interests.

It is ominous.

There is no other way I can describe it.

The Chief Guy who covered up Stealing in the University

A Weak Leader Brings Disaster to Ceylon 

Anura Dissanayske is that weak Leader.

Ranil Wichramasinghe is a wesk leader and a stooge of India. 

He has allowed Anura Dissanayske to sign all the agreements which India needs to subjugate CEYLON and put the onus on Anura and later undermine him and come to power using a subtle "Economic Coup".

Ranil Wickrasinghe is no economic wizard. 

What he did was to postpone the payments of instalments and we have to pay the an added interest on each installment, later.

He fooled the masse with Pseudo RECOVERY. 

Sutra Puncha at his Worst.

We must never let him come to power.

I have a Personal Grouse with him.

His aim is to destroy FREE University Education and introduce FEE paying system.

 

Destroy Kannaggara Wisdom is his moto.

He unceremoniously sacked my BOSS, University Grant Commission Chairmman, Professor B. Ranjth N. Mendis.

I acted as the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Dental Science for 3 months  and fulfilled all His Intended Targets. 

I begged him to release me from Work on Administration, since I was interested in Research Work which I finished in double quick time and the rest of the time I spent on my Linux Development Plan and having a Network dedicated to the Faculty of Dental Sciences independent of the University Server.

Yes, he released me for academic work but gave me another project with Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA).

I really enjoyed working with Dr. Handa and Hagiwara and Professor Kimiko was my Room Buddy. 

He was involved in training our Technical Staff on Special (enzyme technology) Staining Technology.

Unfortunately, minus 20 decree Fridge Freezer I ordered for my Research Work was hijacked by our Senior Technician Mr. Bandara who died of Mercury Poisoning. 

He was a very nice guy and this piece is dedicated to him.

Of course, I was interested in Safety within the Laboratory from my Private Sector Training in Quality Control and Safety.

This was to highlight the lady who died at about the same time in Colombo (forget her name) who was doing gene splitting in CEYLON. I think this case was hushed up and covered up by the Private Sector guys, fearing litigation by the family and the possibility of undermining their recruitment schemes which violated the "Fundamental Rights and the Safety of the Individuals" in laboratory work.

I left private Sector never to join again but always highlighted this case in my introductory lectures to students and visiting trainees.

I was trained by "WHO Program in Gene Splitting" and part of that training included Safety. I went to Science Faculty for training and one of my classmates in Biochemistry died related to chemical poisoning after retirement. 

Another of my classmates who entered university much later in Biochemistry did his Masters in  

Laboratory Chemical Poisoning in America. 

 

He asked me to suggest a  Research Project.

All my other academic friends who entered the University from my class except the last mentioned are dead.

I have noted these incidents without their names in a single chapter in one of my many books at Amazon's. You have to read those books at Amazon to become wiser.

My first project proposal to a Third Year Medical student was very simple.

Study the relationship of Grey Hair to Thyroid Hormones, T4 and T3.

He ended up in Biochemistry which I hated in later years. 

He did go to UK and USA and never returned to Mother Lanka to pay back his loans and the bond which was Rs. 30,000/=. 

We immediately raised the bond to 3 times and more,  (Rs.100,000/=). 

 

The girls who joined Pathology (they were Tamils) did not pay back their legal bonds. 

I personally conveyed a message from my Professor R. G. Tennakoon, to one of my batch mates,  that she cannot join any University in CEYLON, if she decides to come home one day.

Coming back to the Biochemistry Guy, he organized a Guest Lecture in our Faculty. 

I attended it in good time and it so happened that I was the only guy to listen to him on that day. 

He was devastated and I told him nobody likes him and Do Not ever come back here, to Show Off.

He was a Hela Urumaya Type guy in his days in CEYLON and he was from Ananda College. 

He also did not return any of the books he borrowed from me. 

He was a very stingy guy and he never offered me a cup of tea which I really love.

One of batch his mates from Galle had already warned me that he would never offer YOU a cup of tea and BEWARE.

In fact, he broke my childhood camera and he did not tell me how. 

Of course, by that time I had a better camera which I never gave on loan to  anybody.

Incidentally, one of my relatives ransacked all my  spare cameras and vandalized my very expensive Medical Projector for its expensive lens. 

He became paralyzed just before I left CEYLON and I did not pay him a visit but send him the medical gear that he needed through my wife. 

This is a guy I wish not see in any of my next lives and that include that Biochemistry Guy.

I wish I meet our dog Zimba in one of my next lives. 

I am convinced that he is currently in heaven but I have no intention of visiting heaven to cancel my good merits achieved in this life.

Still I need to talk about another guy who tried to steal my intellectual property. He was an anesthetic. He had no training in pediatrics but was interested in studying TOR or Toxic Oxygen Radical. 

By that time I was into TOR as the base starting point in Inflammation and Interleukin. 

I got one my senior female technician to do the TOR work and her senior technician was a ladies man whom I did not like and refused to associate with. 

I did a close watch on his extracurricular acts and not on his bench work. 

He was a good bench worker but did use shortcuts in his staining work which was not accepted in Research. 

So, he was never tasked with Research Work. He used to undercut Sujatha Ramadasa the next in line of command. 

She unfortunately lacked Research component for her promotion in the Medical Faculty.

I worked in the Dental Faculty.

 

I bumped into her one day and asked her how she was doing. 

She broke and started crying. 

She came from Ratnapura and she did not have any friends in Kandy. 

I told her to give me her resume and I would collaborate in a Research work and I would buy all the chemicals, particularly the  Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) for the project. 

I got her to do some pilot work since to my knowledge nobody had done any work in Ceylon on SOD. 

When I was satisfied I gave her my protocol which that Doctor guy tried to steal from me. 

He was initially one of my supervisors. 

I sacked him from the post of supervisor. 

This was an unprecedented event and I threatened to put my pre-emptive research work on placenta on to the dustbin, if he was not removed legally in a formal meeting with the Faculty of Medicine. 

 

Fortunately, Professor Mendis had the foresight of a breakdown in communication and apportioned 3 supervisors to my project. 

That saved the day for me. 

Miss Sujatha Ramadasa of course got promoted as the Chief Technician when that ladies guy retired. 

That was on the the strength of the SOD Work with me. 

I gave a strong recommendation. 

That ladies guy after retirement used to avoid me in public and he had to retire early on medical grounds. 

He developed herpes related ophthalmitis which affected his vision and bench work. 

 

That brings me to the third guy with whom I had no academic connection. 

 

He used to cover up many deficiencies in the technical and minor staff of the Department of Pathology.

I had to uncover the pilfering of absolute alcohol from the Department store. 

 

I managed to sack 3 in the Department.

1. One stealing petty cash.

2. One stealing Microscope lens

3. One stealing absolute alcohol 

 

The Chief Guy used to cover up these acts.

Then I had a good COMBO.

Mr. Nimal Ranjith Seneviratna who was National Senior athlete and a good opening batman in cricket for Kegalle and Kandy. 

He never told me he was a cricketer but he taught me how to use the Typewriter which I coined "Ko Ko System" of Typing which is not related to Touch Typing.

 

When I did a book on all these guys, I discovered the finer points of their lives.

I did not forget to give a long calls to all of them before my departure from CEYLON.

There is no way, I would return to CEYLON even for a holiday.

I did my parts to "Mother Lanka" in "My Way" and there are no arrears.

My only loss is 2 one terabyte SSD disks with all my DATA of Yesteryear and a few hard copies of my books at Amazon's.

Reflection on J.V.P. and L.T.T.E and Photography

Reflection on J.V.P. and L.T.T.E and Photography

Joe Theodore De Livera in Conversation

I could not find a reliable Electronic Balance in Titus Stores but could find one in the open market of the Pettah Street, of course smuggled, under Rs.5000/= which I used for my Research Work on Placenta. 

Also read underneath what L.T.T.E. and J.V.P. done to our local industry.

I am a photographic addict but I went into colour photography in UK. 

I bought a Peterson Colour Kit but without a good dark room I could not progress. 

We have chatted about this and that for over three hours on a Monday morning in his beautiful home set amidst a large garden in Colombo. 

Was it too long or too short for a colourful personality that is this octogenarian?

Initially, we sit on the lush lawn surrounded by large trees and hedges and then move into the hall bordering a "meda-midula" මැද මිදුල with a pond and more trees, to be served with delicious slices of home-made cake and steaming cups of tea. Finally, we tread upstairs to the large book-lined study, after spending a little time on the balcony, taking in the exercise equipment that he uses and also the view of the surrounding landscape.

Were three hours adequate, we wonder as we leave, to encapsulate the multi-faceted life of this person who has dabbled in many things, very successfully, with trust in God and the murmured whisper of “Thy will be done”.

Where do we begin – this is the question we grapple with. 

May be it would be best to begin with the well-known facets of his life, moving from the known to the unknown.

We have concluded this long interview while also taking photographs of none other than 85-year-old Joe Theodore De Livera in his home down Ananda Rajakaruna Mawatha, Maradana, with an “exquisite” view, in his own words, of Campbell Park.

This is the man, having taken over the ‘legend’ of Main Street in bustling Pettah, ‘Titus Stores’ set up by his father back in 1924, to import and sell the first incandescent lamps, from which the name of the store came about lifted it out of the dumps and also successfully steered it through turbulent times generated by mushrooming modern stores.

Having to weave in many strands to showcase the rich tapestry of Mr. De Livera’s life, we begin at the beginning. 

Joseph Michael De Livera, a teacher, had strong views on how to bring up his one-and-only son (there is one daughter too), while mild Mary Theodora never opposed his will.
So it was to the boarding of Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya, that Joe was packed off to from their home in Negombo at the tender age of five. In his father’s mind it was the “best” he could visualize for his son. At 85, his childhood may be a dim memory, but to this day, there is a tinge of sadness as Joe says “it was a terrible thing for a child” for it cut-off his closeness to his parents. He found comfort in singing and Mother Gonzaga recognized his “lovely voice” and got him heavily involved in choral activity.

Next it was a few years at Maris Stella College, where his father had been a teacher, followed by the family moving to a rented home on Gregory’s Road, while young Joe was bundled off to boarding school once again, this time at                   St. Joseph’s College, Maradana. 

Silently the tears would flow, as he longed to be in his own home.
With World War II breaking out, the family once again went back to their Negombo home, with another stint at Maris Stella College for Joe, followed by more years at St. Joseph’s College, Maradana. 

The Race Course was an airstrip, there were Royal Air Force personnel at St. Joseph’s and once the war had stabilized, the Josephians were at their lessons in pol-athu "පොල් අතු" classrooms put up in the premises of Aquinas College. 

Incidentally, the De Livera family’s Negombo home in Thammita is now St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged with 135 elderly.

While the routine at college was daily mass and communion and lessons, he also came under the powerful influence of Fr. Ignatius Perera (who would later set up the Radio & Electronics Laboratory, the first of its kind in Asia) whom he “revered”. 

Although erudite Fr. Ignatius, a scholar in Latin and Greek with a flair for music and singing, did not teach impressionable Joe, he opened up a way of life for the boy, making him the first chorister of the Catholic Choral Society for he had “absolute pitch”. His profound influence made Joe’s love of music blossom.

Singing and music were not Joe’s only passion as a boy of about eight but also photography, starting with an unwieldy box camera – a Kodak Brownie which was “a real black pettiya”.

When asked how that interest developed, there is wry humour as he points out that “maybe it is a matter of the mind” as his parents were both “amusical and aphotographic”. 

Although he was NOT a graduate in Science, Law or Engineering, he says that he has a very broad mind.

There is a pause in our conversation as he pulls out his I-Phone from his shirt pocket and says “this is of course far better” for taking photographs and also waves goodbye to wife, Hermie, about whom he speaks with much pride. “She is a science graduate,” he says, adding that she is a good wife and mother and fantastic cook, going on to explain how she hosted a Soroptimists’ meeting just a few days before, proof of her efficiency.

Both of them have green fingers, he laughs, while his wife has her very own bonsai garden and he also turned architect to come up with the “bold concept and design” of their home which had been admired by renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa.

As he himself says he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and a big businessman he may be as head of Titus Stores, the running of which he took over in 1965, but his track record is impressive. 

He had managed the family’s dairy farm with 2,500 Milch cows on 685-acres in Chilaw as a young man, with a bowser of milk being supplied from there each day to the Milk Board. 

 

This was until the government took over their land in 1972, ending the dairy business.

A strange mix it would seem, for Mr. De Livera had also ventured out to sea, being the pioneering entrepreneur to introduce the first trawler in Sri Lankan waters, initially in Pesalai, Talaimannar, and later in Kalpitiya.

He makes a point to mention that in those days he spearheaded resistance to Indian fishermen entering Sri Lankan waters, referring to the crisis between the two countries in recent times.

His Ceylon Seafood Company boats were trawling around two tons of fish including thoru, moru, thalapath, koppara, loads of small fry and about 50 kilos of prawns per day. However, with the activity of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam mounting around Wilpattu and one of his boatmen being killed by them and also threats from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna increasing around his factory in Negombo, Mr. De Livera had handed over the entire project to the navy, shifting his focus to Kokkadicholai in the East.

It was another landmark achievement for his new company, Serendib Seafood, for it was the first to freeze and export shrimp.   “I started Sri Lanka’s first aquaculture project,” says Mr. De Livera, going back to the 1980s when he would be shuttling between the shrimp hatchery at Pitipana, Negombo, and Manmunai, near Kokkadicholai.

As the post-larvae mortality rate was high when transported by road, he used the Cessna 177 which he had bought for quicker transport between Katunayake and Batticaloa.

This project too had fallen victim to the bloody conflict raging in that area, with 27 of his workers being shot.

These tragedies were the “biggest shock of my life”, he says sadly.

The rest is history.

But the different corners of his study with an attached ‘dark room’ where lies old cameras, meanwhile, provide ample proof of Mr. De Livera’s wide and varied interests.

Self-taught, sans degrees he may be, but the microcosms represented in the study indicate the rounded personality that he is…………avid reader with more than 5,000 books on the shelves, businessman, photographer, dabbler in homeopathy and adoring grandfather. 

For amidst the line-up of accessories he needs for his daily work and relaxation, pride of place is being shared by lots of toys to keep his little five-year-old granddaughter entertained whenever she drops by.
 

From hobby to veteran

Work apart it is with a lot of passion that Mr. De Livera reverts to his pet subject – photography and the Photography Society of Sri Lanka.

He is the senior-most member of this 109-year-old society founded in 1906 to promote photography as a hobby, art and craft and now guides its destinies as its Patron.

His journey behind the lens and the society’s history seem to be inextricably-linked. We learn that the society had been set up as the Amateur Photographic Association of Ceylon by Henry Lorenz Wendt, father of the famous Sri Lankan photographer, artist and musician Lionel Wendt. Later it had been renamed and revamped in 1934 by Lionel Wendt with like-minded people. Those whose contributions that have made the society what it is today include P.J.C. Durrant, B.G. Thornley, Joe De Livera, B.P. Weerawardena and D.C.L. Amarasinghe who would meet at Wendt’s home to pore over and discuss at length the images captured by them.

Mr. De Livera launches into technical details of the cameras cradled by him over the years, starting with the Kodak Brownie Box, then a Kodak Folding Camera which was an improvement on the Brownie as it had a lens with a variable aperture and shutter and later a Rolleiflex. 

Next it was the Leica which he purchased in Zurich, Switzerland, while on a trip to Europe with his father after he had seen Thornley sporting one and he had read about “this revolution” in photography which could produce the 35-mm film format.

Harefield Hall Slipper Orchid, “It was BG (Thornley), as he was known, who introduced the Leica to me although it was Lionel Wendt who first introduced 35-mm photography and the Leica to Ceylon some time before World War II,” says Mr. De Livera in a piece written by R.H. Samarakone, himself a member of the society in ‘Legends’, a series in the society’s newsletters featuring senior members.

“It was after BG brought his Leica II to Ceylon that photographers like me realized the potential of this incredible camera and the 35mm format which later caught on like wild fire,” he adds.

Among the very important persons who purchased a Leica was Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake who joined Mr. De Livera on sojourns around the country clicking snapshots in the 1950s which the latter would develop and print in his darkroom, as he had begun film-processing in a 35mm developing tank brought back from England in 1947.

Experimenting with the Leica, he had also found that it could be used for ‘Macro Photography’, samples of which he shows us in his study.

Realizing that 35-mm cameras were not available in the country, Mr. De Livera had imported and distributed through Titus Stores the Balda camera from Germany in 1955 which was “relatively cheaper” than the Leica, with one of his first customers being visionary science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

Technicalities flow forth on how Mr. De Livera, much later in the 1990s switched to Digital Photography with an Olympus 1.4 Mega Pixel Camera and more recently a Canon SX 20 IS.

A fitting tribute is paid to Mr. De Livera by Mr. Samarakone when he states: “Keeping abreast with the development of camera technology and having used many of the top of the range equipment of each era, he is one of the very few of the senior photographers who took up digital photography at an early stage of its introduction in 1995. 

Having experimented with various types and styles of photography, he is considered as one who excelled in macro photography in the early days.”

Next he touches on the nomadic lifestyle of the Photographic Society until it found a home at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre, having traveled the full circle.

The early meetings of the society were held on the first Monday of the month at Lionel Wendt’s house on Guilford Crescent, says Mr. De Livera, who had joined the society, on the invitation of Quintus Fernando, a university lecturer, a few months after the death of Wendt in 1944. The meetings continued there even after the death of Wendt until the old house was demolished to make way for the Art Centre.

It was then that the society moved from place to place, gathering in a small room behind the Planters’ Association of Ceylon (the current premises of the Cinnamon Grand Hotel) on Galle Road, moving out when the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation took over this premises; homeless for awhile; then the Young Men’s Christian Association in Fort; thereafter Mr. De Livera’s Dad’s residence, ‘Rendlesham’ down Stafford Place (now known as Sri Vipulasena Mawatha), Colombo 10; and finally a permanent home in the newly-built Lionel Wendt Art Centre.

Giving his input during the construction phase, it had been Mr. De Livera who suggested a solution to the lack of ventilation in the society’s meeting hall, a line of windows at the top around 15 feet from the ground which could be opened and closed by fixing a thick string. “These are still there,” he adds.