Nostalgia? A fine collection of Sri Lankan Photos

In case you have not seen this.

Sri Lanka Photos, Captioned Pictures, Travel Gallery Images

  
Introduction to Sri Lanka
  
The pictures here begin with Colombo , move south to Galle, north to the high country, farther north to Kandy and its environs, and farther north still to the country's great archaeological sites.
For more on the status of highland paddy, see Continuity and Change in the Paddy Lands of the Kandy District.

Colombo (64 pictures) 
Colombo 2 (20 pictures) 
Galle (44 pictures) 
Nuwara Eliya (48 pictures) 
Tea Country (48 pictures) 
Highland Subsistence (19 pictures) 
Kandy and the Temple of the Tooth (27 pictures) 
Kandy: Palaces and Medamahanuwara (11 pictures) 
Kandy: Traditional Houses (9 pictures) 
Kandy: British Infrastructure (10 pictures) 
Kandy: Colonist Life (25 pictures) 
Kandy: British Institutions (23 pictures) 
Kandy: Christian Cemeteries (20 pictures) 
Kandy: Now (17 pictures) 
Hantane (27 pictures) 
Talatu Oya (12 pictures) 
Peradeniya (19 pictures) 
Paingamuwa (17 pictures) 
Mahaweli Ferry (6 pictures) 
Lankatilaka (27 pictures) 
Gadaladeniya (17 pictures) 
Embekke (17 pictures) 
Kadugannawa and Balana (14 pictures) 
Gampola (15 pictures) 
Atabage (5 pictures) 
Loolecondera (10 pictures) 
Gurugal Oya (12 pictures) 
Minipe (13 pictures) 
Lamesuriyagama (39 pictures) 
Elephant Power (12 pictures) 
Town and Country (39 pictures) 
Anuradhapura (37 pictures) 
Polonnuwara (26 pictures) 
Sigiriya (18 pictures) 
Trincomalee (13 pictures) 

Some pictures of Mahendra Collure

I am thankful to Indra A. for sending me these pictures.

February 1999

 !st. Picture  - Rotorua- hot springs, north island, New Zealand

2nd. picture - Gisbourne, north island, New Zealand

 

Galle Intern group photo 1968

Sent by Kumar Gunawardene

Sriani/Rohini Ana, 

Please make corrections and add. Help identify especially the Peradeniya guys. You can do it as a "comment".

Lucky

Seated L-R: Ranjan Fernando, Amitha Samarakoon, ?Vasantha Thuraisingham, Maldeniya, ?????, Rohini Abhayaratne, Vipula Aryasinghe, Dharmani Perera, Sriani Dissanayake, Chitra Perera, Rohini Senaratne, Swarna Withane, DR Ramyasiri

Standing L-R: Percy Karunatilake, Siddique Cassim, Jupiter Moonemale, S.R. (Sunna) de Silva, ?????, Kumar Gunawardene, ?M.Viswanathan, ?Byrd Gunasekara, ????????, PG Cooray, Daya Mudannayake, Ranjit Jayawardene, Lakshman Thenuwara, Fulgentius, DSC Attale

Group Photograph of Ratnapura Doctors

Can anyone identify the 18th person in the standing row, and also the 4th, 8th, 9th and 10th (seated)?

Standing Left to Right:  DM de S (Jonah) Jayasinghe, Indra Anandasabapathy, Chitta, Sidath Jayanetti, Mahendra Collure, Mulgirigama, Jaimon, Harsha Samarajiva, JG Wijetunge, VPH Rajapakse, MBSL (Sarath) de Silva, Mahesan Richards, Desmond ( CD) Gunatilleka, Bertram Dias, Lucian Perera, Irfan Hassan, Issadeen, Sumathipala, Kitha Wimalaratne, Nachinar Kinian.

Saeted (L to R): Srianee (Bunter), Piyaseeli Dolawatte, Roshnara, ?......., ?.........., Ramani Ponniah, Sathananthan, ?........, Alahendra, ?........., ?........., Padmini Gunawardene, Rohini ?, Rani Karalapillai.

Kurunegala Interns 1967

An Important e-mail from Priya.

 

Dear Lucky,
Discovered a photo (not too good) of the interns at GH Kurunegala in 1967/1968. Many of our batch mates are in it -

Seated - from L-R - ?Lakshmi Balachandran, 3rd me (Priya Gunaratna), Yankee Bala, HN Wickremasinghe, Rajasooriar, 8th Cassim, & last Manel Hettiarachchi.

Standing from L - R  - 5th - ND Amarasekera, Sanath Tissera, ?Sarvanandan, ? & 10th Rasanayagam
Sorry  I can't remember some names.

Most of us interns were housed in two adjoining, smallish bungalows whilst some others including Cassa & HN were in another large and oldish bungalow known as the "Naaki Quarters". We would be often warned of a brewing rumpus at this "NK" by Banda, our cook cum house keeper and brace our selves for a sleepless night. On these occasions branches of trees would be stuffed in through grills above our room windows amidst much shouting and singing whilst the crockery which had been forgotten to be locked up, were found smashed to smithereens the next morning. One night I discovered my housecoat which had been extricated through the window grill flying atop the flag pole of the "Naaki Qarters".
I remember the many times my co workers at the "NQ" drive past our humble abode shouting commands to me to cover up for them?.
Many a day when the taps ran dry, these "naaki inmates" would go on strike, stand outside their quarters with their sarongs tucked up and toothbrushes hanging from their mouths.
We, Doctors were much respected by the residents of Kurunegala and our presence much sought after at  their homes and at outings.
The blood bank was situated across the main Colombo Road and what ever time of night, we had to hurry across this to match blood for transfusions, only to be trailed far behind by the ward attendant carrying the bag to transport it.
There was an MO/OPD who would indiscriminately stamp all cases at night as "HO to see stat", which made us poor interns scurry to exchange these on call dates.
Sanath, HN and ND were my co-workers under Dr Chandra Wijesundera, Consultant Paediatrician (who later married our batch mate Manel Ratnavibushana also known as Owlie) and under Dr J Herat, Consultant Gynecologist. When it came to our convocation, I who was honest and declared I was not attending it had to hold the fort as these folks obtained duty leave to attend it, but never did.
All these seem from a distant past and at times I wonder if they are figments of my imagination. However it may be, the internship days at Kurunegala bring a smile upon my face and a warm feeling around my heart. I am sure Cassa and HN would agree.

Priya

Note:

With some help from ND, I was able to get a jpg copy of the photo to be uploaded to the blog. He had also provided a few more names. With all that, it's still incomplete. I guess it's left to me to see if I can identify the rest. But let me remind you that I never worked in Kurunegala and I know that there a few Peradeniya graduates in the group whom I don't know.

 

ND's e-mail is as follows:

 

 

Hi Lucky

Done the change into Jpeg

I remembered a few more names.

Seated - from L-R - ?Lakshmi Balachandran, 3rd me (Priya Gunaratna), Yankee Bala, HN Wickremasinghe, Rajasooriar, 8th Cassim, & last Manel Hettiarachchi.

Standing from L - R  ??, Langanarayanan, ???, Batuwangala,  ND Amarasekera, Sanath Tissera, LPJM Wickramasinghe,  Sarvanandan, Galhenage,  Rasanayagam, Lionel Samarasinghe, Adikaram, WS Ratnayake, Subramaniam

Click on photo to enlarge

 

 Seated left to right: Indrani Subramaniam (Yankee Bala's sister), Lakshmi Balachandran (according to Priya and ND), Priya Gunaratne, S. Balachandra (Yankee Bala), HN Wickramasinghe, W. Rajasooriyar, Joseph, , MHS Cassim, UNIDENTIFIED, UNIDENTIFIED, Manel Hettiarachchi,

Standing left to right: UNIDENTIFIED, G. Langaniarayanan (I remember him from the 6 months course), ?Sisira Ranasinghe (was he in Kurunegala?), Batuwangala, ND Amerasekera, Sanath de Tissera, LPJM Wickramasinghe, S. Sarvananda, Siri Galhenage, M. Rasanathan, Lionel Samarasinghe, Adikaram, WS Ratnayake, ?Kumar Gunawardene (was he is Kurunegala?) or Subramaniam

Medical Students' Union Committee 1965-1966

Our batch is well represented here with Ranjith Dambawinne (KDPR), Nihal Goonetileke, Virginia Swan (De Vos), Mahesan Richards, V. Kunasingham and myself.

Click on the picture for a better view.

House Officers at Colombo South Hospital 1967/68

Ananda Hettiarachchi, Anandan Jayaratnam, Lakshman Weerasuriya, Dawne de Silva, Deviyani Gunasekara and myself are in this group photo. Surangani Abeysuriya is an absentee.

E-Mail and Photo from Speedy

Hi Lucky,

Just to keep the Blog going, I thought you might like to post this picture of the UK contingent in 1991. It was taken at the late Somasunderam's house in Cheadle, Cheshire. As you can see, a few of our colleagues in the picture are no more. I think there are movements afoot to gather as many as possible somewhere sometime in the UK this year.
 

The picture was taken on the 13th of July 1991.
 

Wish you a Happy New Year.
 

Speedy

 

 

Block Seniors vs Staff Cricket Match 1963

See whether you are able to spot yourself. Click on the picture for an enlarged view.

More Pictures from Final Year Trip

Mahesan has given me a whole lot of well preserved pictures from the Final Year Trip of 1966. I had posted the few I had with me on this blog some time ago. Enjoy the rest! Our female colleagues who missed the fun can console themselves by looking at what the boys looked like 46 years ago.