{"id":135567,"date":"2024-05-20T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=135567"},"modified":"2024-05-20T18:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:27:35","slug":"the-face-behind-a-no-holds-barred-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-face-behind-a-no-holds-barred-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The face behind a no-holds-barred book"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry_title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The face behind a no-holds-barred book<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800000;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/plus\/the-face-behind-a-no-holds-barred-book-557214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sundaytimes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Of Sri Lankan origin, Beverley Pinder who was here to launch her autobiography talks to Kumudini Hettiarachchi<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/plus\/the-face-behind-a-no-holds-barred-book-557214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/uploads\/9Y1A5019_-3-.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Beverley Pinder in Colombo. Pic by M.A. Pushpa Kumara<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Imagine British business magnate Sir Richard Branson straddling an elephant and riding the streets of busy Melbourne in Australia!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This is what happened in the 1970s long before his fame-gain through the Virgin Group, dubbed an \u201cirresistible\u201d brand which is in many diverse sectors now, from travel to telecommunications, health to banking and music to leisure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The woman, however, behind that famous elephant-ride was none other than Beverley Pinder of Sri Lankan origin who had emigrated to Australia with her family as a girl of 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This week Beverley who calls herself \u201cnot beautiful but may be exotic in a manner\u201d is here in Sri Lanka to launch her frank and no-holds-barred book, \u2018Pride without Prejudice \u2013 An inspiring life\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Many of us are familiar with English author Jane Austen\u2019s timeless novel \u2018Pride and Prejudice\u2019 about class and status and finally love. Beverley\u2019s book with the working title \u2018Big Girls Don\u2019t Cry\u2019 but named \u2018Pride without Prejudice\u2019 encapsulates the journey of trial and triumph (peaking when she was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia in January last year \u2013 2023), first set in then Ceylon and later in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/plus\/the-face-behind-a-no-holds-barred-book-557214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/uploads\/9Y1A5211_-3-.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It was when Beverley was working for \u2018Professional Public Relations\u2019 (PPR) that one of their clients had said that a man from London wanted PR. He was none other than Branson, about to kick-start his Virgin Records Australia\u2026\u2026..and so, \u201cthe media had a field day covering the grand entrance of little-known, hippy-looking Branson astride an elephant\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">On her suggestion of such a ride being accepted, Beverley had hired the elephant from her circus friends, Perry Brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In a leisurely chat on Monday, we touch on a wide range of topics, laughing over the fact that she does not have a photograph of Branson on the elephant which would have been invaluable today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Through her book which took 15 years to write and the interview in Colombo we follow her journey. It has been a journey fraught with heartache (a violent and abusive home where her father assaulted her mother and a mother who adored her brothers but left Beverley to fend for herself \u2013 but whom Beverley later learned to love dearly, looking after her until her death).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This autobiography is also about harassment both physical and sexual in public areas (even as a child in Ceylon); discrimination (facing the negatives of the White Australia policy), lost loves and personal tragedies. \u201cEven though Dad adored me, he was an absent father,\u201d says Beverley ruefully, adding that those days she felt she was second class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/plus\/the-face-behind-a-no-holds-barred-book-557214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/uploads\/8_-3-.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Miss Universe 1977, Janelle Commisiong, congratulating Beverley after she was crowned Miss Universe Australia in 1978 in Perth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">She had been just 17 when she was hounded by obscene phone calls after her bikini-clad pictures appeared in the newspapers and she changed her name from de Zylva, taking up Pinder, her paternal great-grandmother\u2019s name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It has, however, also been a journey of achievement and success (being crowned Miss Universe Australia in 1978; going into PR and establishing her own firm; and serving two terms as a City of Melbourne councillor) and contentment with her third husband, Russell Mortimer, while bonding with twin stepsons, one of whom is living with autism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">As she says with conviction that then and now are different, totally different times both in Sri Lanka and Australia, all these have jelled to make her what she is today, believing in what her friend the late Fr. Bob Maguire calls \u201ccommunitarianism\u201d. The philosophy of becoming more involved in the local<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">community, for the mutual benefit of all in the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This is the same philosophy (\u201ccharity is in my DNA\u201d), which saw Beverley, accompanied by then Melbourne City Council\u2019s Deputy Mayor, Susan Riley, rushing to Sri Lanka after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 and travelling 1,800 kms pell-mell in a mini-bus from Trincomalee to Batticaloa and then all the way south to see the trail of destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Getting back home, fund-raising followed in earnest along with the Melbourne-based charity, Help Sri Lanka, to build a science laboratory and a craft centre for the Dickwella Maha Vidyalaya. HELP Sri Lanka had been heavily assisted by the Sri Lanka Association of Victoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/plus\/the-face-behind-a-no-holds-barred-book-557214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/uploads\/Photo-1-topaz_-3-.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Eight-year-old Beverley (far right) with her cousins in Ceylon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The duo had also encouraged a Rotary Club in Melbourne to fund a Women\u2019s Enterprise Centre at Kushil Gunasekara\u2019s Foundation of Goodness in Seenigama (which Beverley, Susan and another friend, Sally Grero, re-visited this week), while also getting a helping hand from King\u2019s College, London, United Kingdom, for the fundraising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Vocal and not fearful to give her opinion, Beverley also touches on the sensitive \u2018#MeToo\u2019 conversation. In print too, she lays down her thoughts how \u201chell broke loose\u201d in Melbourne when the media reported allegations of sexual harassment against Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, not only her mentor but also her friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Robert was a \u2018touchy-feely\u2019 sort of person, she argues and just because someone touches your knee, does it constitute sexual harassment. Even though she publicly told him to take a sabbatical and he was forced to resign, she says the \u2018#MeToo\u2019 movement can lead to good talent being thrown out. \u201cWe need to define what constitutes sexual harassment,\u201d she cautions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Now retired, Beverley, very much a people\u2019s person, is passionately concentrating on pro bono work, supporting charitable causes and mentoring youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Even though Beverley\u2019s story with all the personalities<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/plus\/the-face-behind-a-no-holds-barred-book-557214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/240519\/uploads\/Photo-30-topaz_-3-.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Beverley and husband Russell Mortimer at Government House when Beverley received the Medal of the Order of Australia on April 6, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">mentioned therein would be more relevant to an Aussie readership, there are take-home messages for Sri Lankans. It is not just a story about a beauty with brains, but one of seizing opportunities while seeing life changes as opportunities. It is also a story about resilience and fortitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/elanka-newsletter-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly\u00a0to\u00a0your\u00a0inbox!<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The face behind a no-holds-barred book Source:Sundaytimes Of Sri Lankan origin, Beverley Pinder who was here to launch her autobiography talks to Kumudini Hettiarachchi Beverley Pinder in Colombo. 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