{"id":121873,"date":"2014-03-18T19:49:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=121873"},"modified":"2014-03-20T22:38:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:08:33","slug":"event-birth-centenary-of-bernard-soysa-memorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/event-birth-centenary-of-bernard-soysa-memorial-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Birth Centenary Of Bernard Soysa &#8211; Memorial Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">Birth centenary of Bernard Soysa<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Memorial Lecture<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>\u201cNot Sharing Power for the Sake of Power\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(in Sinhala)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">by<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Prof. Sarath Wijesuriya<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">University of Colombo<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">at 4.30 pm, Thursday, 20 March 2014<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Venue: Sri Lanka Foundation Institute<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chair: Prof. Narada Warnasuriya<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You are cordially invited.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Bernard Soysa Commemoration Committee<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bernard-Soysa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121874\" alt=\"Bernard Soysa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bernard-Soysa.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":121874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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