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  • The Tale of Taylor-Made Tea

    The Tale of Taylor-Made Tea

    Anura Gunasekera (2021)

    The Scotsman, James Taylor with a few tea seedlings planted on a bare hill-side on Loolecondera estate, Hewaheta, in 1866, also sowed the seeds for an economic and social revolution that eventually reshaped the landscape of this remote island that he had made his home. Read More

  • Ex-Planters Luncheons in Melbourne

    Ex-Planters Luncheons in Melbourne

    John de Silva (2021)

    The Ex-Planters in Melbourne do not have any official association. In the late 1970s a dinner was organised for the Ex-Planters. Although this function was well attended there were no subsequent functions forthcoming. Read More

  • Meet the north-east planters and pioneers who brewed up a storm in a teacup

    Meet the north-east planters and pioneers who brewed up a storm in a teacup

    Neil Drysdale (2021)

    Les Wilson admits he was amazed when he started researching the history of tea production – and discovered a caddy-load of farmers and planters from the north-east of Scotland were in the brew. Read More

  • Stronger Together

    Stronger Together

    The Daily Mirror (2021)

    21st May 2021 - The ceremonial auction of Wisdom in the Leaf in March 2021 brought the now silent Colombo tea auction room alive with tea growers, brokers and buyers united in their support for the sustainable future of Ceylon Tea. Read More

  • Scott Dirckze – Boss, Mentor and Friend

    Scott Dirckze – Boss, Mentor and Friend

    Anura Gunasekera (2021)

    Sujit Canagaretna, in a moving and masterful appreciation of Scott Dirckze, written soon after the latter’s demise in November 2019, has, in the opening paragraph itself, perfectly summed up the multi-faceted man whom he had known from childhood. Read More

  • A tribute to the late Sepala Illangakoon on his 12<sup>th</sup> Death Anniversary

    A tribute to the late Sepala Illangakoon on his 12th Death Anniversary

    Upali Horadagoda (2021)

    This appreciation is dedicated to an illustrious personality who immensely contributed much to the plantation industry of this country, Mr. Sepala Illangakoon on his 12th death anniversary.Mr. Illangakoon was an outstanding student with an enviable academic record, was at a most impressionable period of his life when he gave up his university studies forsaking medicine and decided to make a career in planting. Read More

  • Nagan Perumalammal - The First Female ‘Head Kangani'

    Nagan Perumalammal - The First Female ‘Head Kangani'

    Sukumar Shan (2021)

    "A unique phenomenon on the estates was Mrs. Nagan Perumalammal, who succeeded her husband as Head Kangani of Queensberry Estate in 1896. In an age when women were meant not even to be seen, Premalammal's appointment as 'Periya Kangani' by the management and her acceptance by the other kanganis was extraordinary. Read More

  • In Memoriam – Deaths in the UK in the 1980s of well-known personalities

    In Memoriam – Deaths in the UK in the 1980s of well-known personalities

    Hugh Karunanayake (2021)

    Members of the Ceylon Society of Australia who may have known or worked with Britishers who were in charge of commercial companies, and estates, would possibly have wondered about their lives after returning “home”. Read More

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