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	Online edition of Daily News - News
		Veteran author Martin Wickremasinghe's original and imaginative writings live in the hearts and minds of millions of Sri Lankans, not belittling the impact created by the translations of his works into nearly nine other languages, Rupavahini Corporation Chairman M. Zuhair PC said yesterday.
		Addressing a ceremony at the National Library Auditorium to mark the launch of the Martin Wickremasinghe Film Festival and an exhibition of photographs and books, Zuhair said the late Wickremasinghe, born on May 29 1890, 114 years ago, stands out as the foremost intellectual, novelist and writer of this country.
		The Martin Wickremasinghe Film Festival is held to commemorate the 114th birth anniversary of the renowned and perhaps one of the greatest writers and intellectuals of Sri Lanka.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/05/29/new23.html (343 words)

	Martin Wickramasinghe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin Wickramasinghe MBE (May 29, 1890 - July 23, 1976) is an important Sri Lankan novelist.
		A few years later, Wickremasinghe completely abandoned his schooling, and began working as a bookkeeper in Colombo, and then at a commissions agency.
		Wickremasinghe published his first book Leela in 1914, as he lost his job, and returned to Koggala.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Wickremasinghe (578 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Poetry, in Sri Lanka
		Martin Wickremasingha, led the movement towards a fusion between the pastoral and the urban linguistic strains.
		It was Wickremasinghe who led the rediscovery of the spare classical purity and integrity of form in Guttila Kavya, as against the overdressed metaphorical affluence of Kavsilumina ‘The Crest Gem of Poetry’, still considered by some as the supreme achievement of classical Sinhala verse.
		Wickremasinghe’s critical wrath was directed with no reservation at the three earliest extant works of classical Sinhala verse, Muvadev Dava, Sasa Dava, and Kavsilumina.
	www.lankalibrary.com /books/poetry.html (4626 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Dress and Ornamentation of the ancient Sinhalese
		As for women s attire, Martin Wickremasinghe (Purana Sinhala Stringe Enduma) basing his contentions on the Pali work Dhammapadatthakatha (5th century A.C.) has shown that ancient Sinhalese women did not cover the upper part of their bodies.
		Wickremasinghe states that middle-class women only wore a cloth round their hips when at home and also used another to cover their shoulders whenever they went outdoors.
		Martin Wickremasinghe believes that until about the 15th century it was the fashion for women to wear chains of pearls on their breasts.
	www.lankalibrary.com /rit/dress.htm (1865 words)

	Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Gamini Wickremasinghe
		Gamini Wickremasinghe was a victim of the selectors whims.
		From that point on Wickremasinghe was cast into the background as the selectors preferred Tillekeratne due to his pedigree as a batsman at domestic level.
		Wickremasinghe continued to be a steady, capable performer at domestic level and earned a recall against New Zealand in 1992-93.
	www.icc-cricket.com /srilanka/content/player/50851.html (425 words)

	Echo of Koggala cradle
		Wickremasinghe's ability to gently but successfully make us connect with our culture and traditions was brought out in the addresses, while it was also pointed out that it was he who introduced the short story and novel to Sinhala literature.
		The lavishly illustrated book, published by the Martin Wickremasinghe Trust, begins with a brief description of Koggala, the birth-place of this great man, and the house where he was born, around which the museum has been established.
		He also went on to say that the external shots were the toughest to accomplish, giving an interesting example of the tedious process of having to capture a footpath, the rail-track, the road, a bullock-cart and the sea in one frame, at the perfect moment, in Kathaluwa.
	www.sundaytimes.lk /070603/Plus/pls21.html (1036 words)

	Today is the 112th Birth Anniversary of Martin Wickramasinghe
		The passage is from Martin Wickramasinghe's Gamperaliya, a novel that has become a seminal work and a point of reference in the evolution of contemporary Sinhala fiction.
		The house in which Wickramasinghe was born has inspired the Martin Wickramasinghe Trust to create a centre of folk culture and life.
		The house is surrounded by eight acres of a restored eco-system planted with hundreds of varieties of indigenous trees and shrubs in which bird life abounds.
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	travelsrilanka
		Koggala is the birthplace of the celebrated Sri Lankan author Martin Wickremasinghe (1890-1976) and the Folk Art Museum named after him is worth visiting.
		Martin Wickremasinghe's house where he lived and worked is open to the public.
		The stretch of shoreline from Koggala eastwards to Weligama is famous for its so-called stilt fishermen.
	www.travelsrilanka.com /index.cfm?PAGE=718 (443 words)

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	The Sunday Times News and Comments
		Wickremasinghe is Martin Wickremasinghe's son, the latter being a Sinhala revivalist and a cynic about the British if ever there was one.
		Wickremasinghe says: "The general attitude of the media in western countries and Britain is how we observe human rights.
		Mr, Wickremasinghe believes that the diplomatic role of Sri Lankan ambassadors has changed particularly because the propaganda work carried out by the LTTE is being felt by decision makers of the country.
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		Paul Martin also mentioned a particular incident in Sri Lanka during his address.
		Karygiannis promised to convey the invitation dutifully to Martin.
		Martin did attend the dinner on a matter of principle as he had given his word and
	www.tamilweek.com /Canada_PM_Sri_Lanka_Tsunami.html (2796 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features
		Inspired by the lifestyle and landscape of his native Koggala, Wickremasinghe immortalised them in his short stories and novels.
		His fictional and non-fictional documentation on the changing life patterns of rural as well urban life is historically significant.
		The organisers hope the film festival would inspire the writing of Martin Wickremasinghe whose work is timely even in the present day Sri Lanka.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/05/29/fea05.html (964 words)

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		It reached a high standard soon after independence with state patronage, and by the early sixties attained a level of maturity that was probably unsurpassed by other south Asian cultures and can be rated to be among the foremost in the developing world.
		Among the foremost writers of Sinhala literature were Piyadasa Sirisena, Martin Wickremasinghe, Siri Gunasinghe and Gunadasa Amerasekera.
		Martin Wickremasinghe was the outstanding writer also during this period, and his works such as Gamperaliya, Kaliyugaya, Yuganthaya and Viragaya were highly acclaimed locally and internationally.
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		A more important sinhala and 2006 how to sinhala lyrics write in sinhala influence sinhala keyboard was the rise of an important newspaper culture (led by the Dinamina newspaper established by the Wijaywardena group).
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	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business
		Martin Wickremasinghe, the well known Sinhala novelist, researcher and journalist has contributed immensely to the growth and nourishment of Sinhala literature.
		Many of his books have been translated to foreign languages from time to time.
		Tadashi is at present continuing his literary work with his newest translations of 'Gamperaliya', 'Kaliyugaya' and 'Yuganthaya', the three codified volumes (novels) of Martin Wickremasinghe to Japanese.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/03/21/fea13.html (808 words)

	Sinhalese prose -Virtual Library Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Indian tales " upon which the stories have been based " have been embellished and retold for the Sinhalese reader and therefore reflects contemporary social conditions to a significant extent.
		Martin Wickremasinghe (purana Sinhala stringe enduma) observes thus: "In the pages of the Saddharama Ratnavaliya are to be seen similes and descriptions which reflects the manners, customs, thoughts and ideas of its day.
		One of the greatest modern day Sinhala novelists was Martin Wickremasinghe, whose epoch making works Gam peraliya and Yuganthaya appealed to the hearts of a generation that was just beginning to shed the last vestiges of European socio-cultural domination in the island.
	members.tripod.com /~hettiarachchi/slpose.htm (1332 words)

	Those Lost Adventures of Childhood
		Both of these were by Sinhalese authors and I read both of them around the time I was 7 years old.
		I read quite a few books by Martin Wickramasinghe in the next few years and even today I remember his books with fondness.
		The first children's classic from English that I read was Captain Frederick Marryat's "The Children of the New Forest".
	www.farook.org /personal/books06.htm (912 words)

	Welcome to Vanity Holidays
		Martin Wickremasinghe Museum of Folk Art and Culture
		Martin Wickremasinghe is the greatest Sinhalese author and artist of moder times.
		He has written over 80 books, several of which are translated into foreign languages.
	www.vanityholidays.com /Galle.cfm (450 words)

	Special Features - Story - 2/17 Day 7 - Toomer and Richardson Visit Sri Lanka - Giants.com
		Only the humanitarian aid organizations who have come to help are here to support the hotels and restaurants that are the backbone of the nation's economy.
		The afternoon provided us the opportunity to visit the Martin Wickremasinghe Primary School, a participant in the WFP's School Feeding Program, where we worked with the students to sand down and repaint their desks.
		Schools here are almost exclusively outdoor facilities, and the kids greatly appreciated the new look to their desks, which were beginning to show their age.
	www.giants.com /news/special_features/story.asp?story_id=5652 (871 words)

	Columns: Local Sri Lankan becomes envoy
		He had just finalized a major deal with two Costa Rican banks in August when Sri Lanka's new prime minister, Ranil Wickremasinghe, asked him to become ambassador.
		Elected last December, Wickremasinghe ran on the controversial platform of negotiating with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, commonly known as the Tamil Tigers.
		Since 1983, the group has used suicide bombings to assassinate one president and wound another in its quest to gain a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's 3.2-million Tamil minority.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/12/11/Columns/Local_Sri_Lankan_beco.shtml (957 words)

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	Editorial Review
		Ranil Wickremasinghe on Christmas Day, there has been no killing in what came to be known as the Killing Fields of South Asia.
		Sri Lanka, which rated highest in literacy rating at one time, suffered such a decline in school education as to cause students not to know Martin Wickremasinghe as a writer and mistake Prof.
		In this regard, appointing of unsuitable persons for positions in the education sector is a grave mistake, which could be disastrous to the education of our children.
	www.priu.gov.lk /news_update/EditorialReviews/erev200203/20020321editorialreview.html (2630 words)

	Daily Mirror Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It had come as a shock when she was chosen for a role in the Gamperaliya tele-drama in 1998.
		Her role as Punchi Menika was special as it was one that was not in the novel of Martin Wickremasinghe.
		Apart from films she has so far acted in more than 25 tele-dramas including Senehelatha Menike, Muhandiram Walawwa, Dedaruma, Gamperaliya and the now showing Senasili Suwanda while more are awaiting release.
	www.dailymirror.lk /inside/entert/020626.html (2002 words)

	Newsletter - 2/3/04 - Buddhism in Sri Lanka
		So the author is also a character in the story, in fact a key one.
		There are other real persons, too, such as Venerable Welivitiye Sorata, Martin Wickremasinghe, A. Ariyaratne, Amaradasa and Lorna Dewaraja, Cecil Lyons, Stuart Smith, Richard T. Arndt and David Vickery, along with numerous fictional characters.
		The clever, almost unique, mixing of the true and fictional characters is another major reason why this book is so interesting.
	www.urbandharma.org /udnl2/nl020304.html (3501 words)

	A Short History of the LSSP
		On June 23rd a mass meeting called by the party to protest against the arrests of the party leaders and held despite a police ban, was broken up by the police.
		While on the one hand repression was being unleashed in this manner against the Samasamajists for the opposition to the war, it might be noted in parenthesis that the State Council assembled on June 27th and passed without a single dissentient voice a vote of Rs.
		Some of the detenus had been released earlier on grounds of health, while some were under detention in hospital, When the gates of the Badulla detention prison were opened.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/History/Lssp.html (17070 words)

	Sri Lanka Freedom Party dgun.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mahinda Rajapaksa took oath as the President on November 19, 2005.
		The boycott of the presidential election by LTTE prevented Ranil Wickremasinghe from coming into power, whose election promises included the implementation of a federal state to the North and East (thus preventing the implementation of such).
		A new prime minister was sworn in, due to vacation of the post, as prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa became president.
	www.dgun.org /en/Sri+Lanka+Freedom+Party (4314 words)

	Editorial Review
		There may have been a handful of English journalists who did and could do so.
		For that was an era when the field of Sinhala journalism was dominated by literary giants like Martin Wickremasinghe, Chandraratne Manawasinghe, D. Dhanapala—to name only a few — who were no second to English-medium journalists.
		We can confidently state that those who have been recruited en masse to Lake House are plain and simple political stooges.
	www.priu.gov.lk /news_update/EditorialReviews/erev200106/20010628editorialreview.html (2967 words)

	Abooda - Water Sport in Sri Lanka - Sinhala, Tamil, Buddhism, Hindu (Colombo, Anuradhapura, Kandy, Galle, Dambulla, ...
		Boat trips can be made on Koggala lake which is home to more than 1000 small islands.
		There is a nice museum in Koggala, the Martin Wickremasinghe Museum of Folk, Art and Culture.
		Ahangama and Midigama are laid back Sri Lankan villages, mostly visited by surfers.
	www.abooda.com /tourism/watersport.asp (1446 words)

	Conflict Transformation: Education for Peace Sri Lanka
		Beside the professional links there was time allotted for experiencing places related to Srilankan heritage.
		Visits were made to the Jaffna Library, the Jaffna Fort and the island of Nagatheepam with a Hindu and Buddhist temple in the North and in the South the Galle Museum, the Anglican Church and the Martin Wickremasinghe Folk Museum.
		Since a bridge will definitely be more durable and steady if there is an additional pillar in the center it was decided to have a short pause between Jaffna and Ruhuna at the Girls' High School in Kandy.
	www.besp.go2lk.com /conflict_transformation.htm (1044 words)

	TamilNet
		Canadian Foreign Minister Mr.Bill Graham is scheduled to arrive Colombo on March 11 after completing four-day tour in India, sources said.
		Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe will meet the Canadian Foreign Minister on Tuesday, Minister Peiris said and added that the discussion between the Prime Minister Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe and Canadian Foreign Minister would focus on the present state of peace process and the country's economy.
		A former Secretary General of International Amnesty Mr.Ian Martin will also be in Sr Lanka next week, sources added.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=8484 (223 words)

	Daily Mirror Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The dinner and overnight stay will be at the Coral Sands Hotel, overlooking the Hikkaduwa waterfront.
		Day 2 will bring the group to the Martin Wickremasinghe Museum at Habaraduwa, Kathaluwa Temple, where George Keyt has excelled with mural paintings and ever active "blow hole" or "Hummanaya" at Dickwella/Mawella.
		After lunch at Tangalle the group will proceed to Rosen Renaissance Hotel at Kataragama.
	www.dailymirror.lk /inside/travel/020718.html (1347 words)

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