{"id":113283,"date":"2013-11-04T00:03:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T18:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=113283"},"modified":"2013-11-08T02:17:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:47:55","slug":"dr-gamani-coreas-remains-will-be-cremated-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/dr-gamani-coreas-remains-will-be-cremated-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Gamani Corea&#8217;s Remains Will Be Cremated Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Gamani Corea passed away on November 03, 2013 after a brief illness, a day before his 88th birthday. His remains lie at his residence &#8220;Horton Lodge&#8221;, Horton Place, Colombo 7 for the paying of last respects, where a service will be held in the afternoon. His last mortal remains will be cremated at 4pm today, November 04, 2013 , at the Borella (Kanatha) Cemetery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113284\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/dr-gamani-coreas-remains-will-be-cremated-today\/dr-gamani-corea\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113284\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113284\" title=\"Dr. Gamani Corea\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dr.-Gamani-Corea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-113284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Gamani Corea<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although he was perhaps Sri Lanka&#8217;s most distinguished international civil servant and a renowned economist, he remained a gentle and unassuming person with a cutting sense of humour. He used to joke of how he was at the time, the oldest (longest standing) member of the Royal Colombo Golf Club &#8211; where he used to play golf with the late Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake, and also had the oldest (longest running) car &#8211; an old Honda Civic which he did not feel the need to change, since it &#8216;worked very well&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a very telling quote on Dr. Gamani Corea&#8217;s stature in the North-South dialogue to secure greater benefits for the developing world from the developed Western countries, click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.lk\/books?id=5cxA4LwpKVoC&amp;pg=PA49&amp;dq=Independence+Ceylon+corea&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=DuFpUqyzIMb_rAfh5IHYAw&amp;ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=Independence%20Ceylon%20corea&amp;f=false\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His impressive biography published on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamani_Corea\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":113284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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