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Luckyland was created initially by Fred Whittall a scion of the great British/Turkish mercantile family. The Whittalls had in the mid-19th Century already opened branches in Colombo and Calcutta and Fred Whittall as a young man was sent out as part of the family Agency business. Read More
In 1979, straight out of school and heading for my first job interview, I walked up a narrow stairway of a dingy building in the heart of Colombo. Entering the office, I vividly recall the claustrophobic conditions as a cluttering of assorted furniture and about thirty people crammed into an area no more than 3,000 square feet. Read More
Merrill J. Fernando, the founder of “Dilmah” and the elder statesman of Ceylon Tea, passed away on 20 July, after a seven-decade commitment to the tea trade. As a passionate Read More
Among the first things I had to do following my appointment as chairman of the Sri Lanka Tea Board was be briefed by tea-sector insiders on how to craft my dealings with the captains of the industry. Among those captains was Merrill J. Fernando, whom I had never met. Read More
My sister and I were at the Beach Cemetery in Gallipoli in 2015, where 285 British Commonwealth troops are buried. Our Turkish guide was listing the countries from where the fallen were from, and Ceylon was not mentioned. Read More
Ralston, the eldest son of George Hugh Ralston Tissera, came from a long line of planting stock. His father was one of the first Sri Lankans to break into the exclusive planting fraternity and retired in 1950 from Fernlands estate in Pundaluoya. Read More
It has been my lifelong dream to revisit the beautiful country of my birth and more importantly see, in person, the estate bungalow. I have kept some treasured photos safe in the event that I would be able to fulfil this dream. Read More
I had for some time known that Vicki Vanden Driesen was writing a book about her early life in Sri Lanka, and I looked forward to reading the book with a great deal of interest, because I could relate to some of the content of the book. Read More
