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Down Memory Lane<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Sri Lanka\u00a0UK\u00a0Society Birthday Banquet \u2013 Her Majesty the Queen: Oak Room of Cinnamon Grand. June 17, 2012.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Speech by Guest of Honour, S. Skandakumar.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Your Excellency, John Rankin, High Commissioner for\u00a0Britain\u00a0in\u00a0Sri Lanka, Eminent Excellencies of the International Diplomatic Corps, distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, When Carlo your President invited me on behalf of his committee to this evening\u2019s function, I said to him, \u201cCarlo I am four years\u00a0into retirement, I have spent it all in relative hibernation in Haputale and many feel that soon I will be ready\u00a0 for the Archives \u201c\u2026to which his response was \u2018Ah That\u2019s just the profile we are looking for !!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So here I am Ladies and Gentlemen, and a very Good Evening to all of you.\u00a0It is not only a great pleasure to be here but also a special privilege to have been invited to address such an awesome audience,\u00a0and I wish to thank Carlo and his committee for the opportunity.I will not attempt to pay her Majesty a tribute as I know it will be a futile exercise but what I would like to observe is\u00a0that her reign has indeed been the finest example of a selfless rule<\/span><\/p>\n

and\u00a0an\u00a0exceptional blessing to the civilised world. Perhaps Prince Charles\u2019 tribute summed it all up when he said \u2018 You made us all Proud to be British \u2018. There could not be a higher tribute to a Country\u2019s leader than that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the nature of today\u2019s event I would like to reflect briefly on the British influence in my life. I joined the firm of George Steuarts in the early seventies,\u00a0 in its 140th year,\u00a0by when it was down to its last expatriate Chairman , Trevor Moy, \u00a0a remarkable gentleman amongst gentlemen . I was fortunate to have him as my mentor in my early years as I\u00a0saw in him the virtues of humility and integrity in the infancy of my\u00a0career.\u00a0Trevor was awarded the Order of the\u00a0British Empire for his contribution to British interests in\u00a0Sri Lanka\u00a0and retired in the late eighties\u00a0 to live in Eastbourne in\u00a0Sussex\u00a0where he passed away with the dawn of the new millenium.<\/span><\/p>\n

In keeping with his wishes, we flew out his widow Kathy with his ashes and buried them in a quaint\u00a0little church in Dickoya name Warleigh where his grave remains preserved to date. I am sharing this with you merely to give you an idea of the deep affection expatriates of that time had for both our country and its people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My other interaction with British influence, if I may call it that, came in 1991 in a different capacity. I had been re-elected Honorary Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri\u00a0Lanka along with the President, Ian Pieris, a\u00a0Cambridge\u00a0educated cricketing blue.<\/span><\/p>\n

We were\u00a0preparing to attend the annual general meeting of the International\u00a0Cricket Council, which is normally held in the middle of each year\u00a0in the main pavilion of the Lords Cricket Grounds when we\u00a0received intimation that at the end of the first day\u2019s sessions,\u00a0all delegates had been invited to a reception at number 10 Downing\u00a0Street\u00a0 hosted by the Prime Minister of Britain, Rt Hon John Major.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was an anxious time\u00a0for diplomatic relations between our two countries as David Gladstone the UK High Commissioner had been declared persona non grata for his over enthusiastic interests in the political affairs of Sri Lanka and Britain retaliated\u00a0by downgrading Colombo\u2019s envoy to London temporarily to Deputy High Commissioner.\u00a0 So I said to myself that I could not possibly go into No 10 empty handed and picked up a sterling silver tray and had a suitable message engraved on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we queued up outside the main gate at No 10, I noticed that I was the only one who was carrying\u00a0anything in his hand and looked quizzically at Ian whose response was typical\u2026.\u2019It was your bloody idea so you take it in\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

I waited to be announced in, shook the Prime Minister\u2019s hand\u00a0and handed the gift to him.\u00a0 \u201cYou mean you\u00a0brought this for me all the way from\u00a0Sri Lanka?\u2019\u2019 \u00a0he said. \u2018Yes, Prime\u00a0Minister,\u2019 I replied and went into the reception hall and thought no more about\u00a0it.<\/span><\/p>\n

After all the delegates had been ushered in I felt a tap on the back of my shoulder and a voice said \u201cThe Prime Minister would like to have a word with you, Sir \u201c. So\u00a0 I went back to the\u00a0 meeting area and he said \u201cYou know that was a very thoughtful gesture on your part; shall we do a picture together? \u201d Cameras clicked and he escorted me back into the reception area.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next morning, while we were at sessions at Lords, there was a knock on the door\u2026\u2019 A letter for Mr Skandakumar of\u00a0Sri Lanka\u00a0from the Prime Minister\u2019s office \u2018 !! was the announcement. I wish mobile technology had been in vogue then because I would have loved to have captured the expressions of the delegates round the table including that of the Chairman, Sir Colin Cowdrey.!<\/span><\/p>\n

They all assumed that in those two hours at the\u00a0reception I had established a hot line to\u00a0No 10!! It was just the\u00a0picture autographed by him with a thank you note but knowing the\u00a0virtues of snob values, I made no effort\u00a0to convince anyone to the contrary!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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