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  • Michael De Zoysa - my friend, boss and mentor

    Michael De Zoysa - my friend, boss and mentor

    Dr Stephan L. Anthonisz (2019)

    I first set eyes on the larger than life character of Michael J. De Zoysa, sporting an imposing “afro mop” as a 16-year-old schoolboy, when he picked me up from my parents’ house on Castle Street to play cricket for the SSC in a Division III game. We hit it off from day one and thus began a 40-year long friendship – he was mentor, boss and spiritual guide in later years. I called him “Mike” as everyone at the SSC called him by that name. Ironically before that day ..... Read More

  • Michael de Zoysa - A Tribute

    Michael de Zoysa - A Tribute

    Anura Gunasekera (2019)

    We are all of an age when the news of the sudden demise of contemporaries and friends should not come as a surprise. Read More

  • Navaratne Pilapitiya - The last scion in the emergence of the low country smallholder tea industry

    Navaratne Pilapitiya - The last scion in the emergence of the low country smallholder tea industry

    Ravi Kumararatne (2019)

    During the latter part of the colonial era, the emergence of the Low country tea sector was pioneered by the likes of the Ratnayakes’ and Budhadasas’ of Deniyaya, Wanigasekeras’ of Akuressa, Jayawickramas’ of Urubokka et al; in producing quality tea from their own estates and by purchasing green tea leaf from smallholder tea gardens. This was followed by the likes of Mr. Navaratne Pilapitiya (popularly and fondly known as Pila) of New Vithanakande, who took this initiative as the pioneers, to a higher level of excellence. Read More

  • Scottish Tea & Lands Company Limited 1962-1972

    Scottish Tea & Lands Company Limited 1962-1972

    Manfred Claasz (2019)

    In 1962 Vivian Blazé came to our house with his mother on a social visit. During the conversation Vivian mentioned to my Dad that his Company (STLC Ltd) was looking for a different type of recruit. I was at home when my father came into my room and asked me to come and meet Vivian. Vivian asked me whether I would like to be a tea planter. He had already been advised by my father that I had 3 GCE A Levels in Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Physics from ..... Read More

  • COLOMBO TRAMWAYS - DOWN MEMORY LANE

    COLOMBO TRAMWAYS - DOWN MEMORY LANE

    Vinodh Wickremeratne (2019)

    The Ceylon Planters’ Society was involved in the financing and influencing the establishment of the Tramways in Colombo. Read More

  • QTrade Founder Started Fresh at 50

    QTrade Founder Started Fresh at 50

    Dan Bolton (2019)

    Manik Jayakumar was a storied rugby captain in his youth, a retired lieutenant colonel, regiment commander and a decorated combat veteran in his middle years; and he had managed several award-winning tea estates and helped pioneer organic tea farming in Sri Lanka by the time he was 50. Read More

  • Remembering Bryan

    Remembering Bryan

    Lorenz Pereira (2019)

    Eustace Bryan Pereira passed away on 3 April 2019 at the age of 78, quite unexpectedly, but peacefully, with dignity and with no fuss in keeping with his gentle character and laconic lifestyle. Read More

  • In Praise of a Hallowed Event

    In Praise of a Hallowed Event

    Anura Gunasekera (2019)

    To Julius Caesar in 1st century BC Rome, and to the Royal-Thomian tribesmen of today, the “Ides of March” presaged diametrically opposite outcomes. Read More

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