{"id":97099,"date":"2022-08-06T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=97099"},"modified":"2022-08-06T10:39:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:39:43","slug":"transformation-of-galle-face-green-by-dr-harold-gunatillake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/transformation-of-galle-face-green-by-dr-harold-gunatillake-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformation of Galle Face green\u00a0 by Dr Harold Gunatillake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #008000;\">Transformation of Galle Face green\u00a0 by Dr Harold Gunatillake <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wUVQGKNd730\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11733 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dr-Harold-Gunatillake.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Harold Gunatillake\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" \/>The promenade was initially laid out in 1859 by Governor Sir Henry George Ward<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">although the original Galle Face Green extended over a much larger area than is seen today.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Galle Face Green was initially used for horse racing and as a golf course but was also <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used for cricket, polo, football, tennis, and rugby. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dutch initially laid out the Galle Face Green to enable their cannons to a strategic line of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fire against the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000080;\">Portuguese<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. One version of how the name Galle Face is derived is that it is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the original Dutch name for the fortifications, in that the gateway which gave access to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Colombo Fort was called the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gal Gate<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as it faced southwards to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Galle<\/span> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">faas <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">means <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">front, so it means in front of the fortification that encountered toward Galle. Another version <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a corruption of the original name for the area&#8217;s rocky shoreline, Gal Bokka, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gal <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">being <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sinhalese<\/span> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for rock and that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gal Gate <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meant rock gate.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">The Galle Face Green is the most significant space in Colombo. Over the years, this promenade has been used by the Colombo residents and visitors to the city as a place of recreation, where people are free to walk, meet, have chit-chats and so on. The families get together and allow the children to play without any supervision by the parents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a popular destination for children, vendors, teenagers, lovers, kite flyers, merrymakers <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and all those who want to indulge in their favourite pastimes next to the sea under the open <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sky. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Saturday and Sunday evenings, the land is busy with day trippers, picnickers, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">food vendors selling cooked crabs, prawns, and slices of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000080;\">mango <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with pepper and salt. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first national Independence from the British was celebrated on this ground with a display\u00a0 of fireworks never seen after. That falls on February 4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">annually.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"background-color: #e3d5d5;\"><b>Vickram Shah from the Society magazine states-\u201cI pour some ginger beer into <\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>the glass and add two cubes of ice. I take a sip and taste my idea of Sri Lanka.\u201d <\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vickram says-On Colombo\u2019s Galle Face Green, there is no mediator between sea and soul. Every evening, the mixed-up people of this mixed-up land come to this\u00a0 great democratic space \u2014 each one to laugh or to love or to wheel or to deal or to cry or to contemplate, but all to watch the quiet spectacle of yet another Colombo sunset. Here is a Sri Lanka for Sri Lankans.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">On the grassy expanse, women in floral printed shirts keep an eye on kite-chasing children. Peanut sellers hawk their ware in singsong Sinhala. Young lovers brush\u00a0 their fingertips, finally satiating the day\u2019s anticipation. It must be a wonderful thing:\u00a0 the first shared smile of lovers at 5 p.m. on Galle Face Green. When youth is spent,\u00a0 this will be the sort of thing remembered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">There was a time when young village couples hid under the shadow of the umbrella,\u00a0 making love for hours in the afternoons. The sunset on the western horizon is most romantic and matches the lovers making love.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Before that era, in the fifties, the lovers came in their sporty vehicles, parked by the roadside area of the green, and spent their Sunday afternoons making love like sparrows.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">The couples were keen to see who and who were in the neighbouring cars for gossip to take home.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Then they all end up at the back garden of Fountain Caf\u00e9 to enjoy their unique ice cream; lovely Baka glory served to your car. Most others end up at Lions House in\u00a0 Bamba for a hopper feed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">The oldies today, wherever they are in the world, will go down their memory lane to reminisce those glorious days of the splendid island.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">The stalls on the seaside walk-in palisade come up active by six in the evening, and the aroma of the fried rice and fried seafood stimulate your hunger pangs. You dwell on these unhealthy street foods before departing for another active day.\u00a0 All these built-up traditions have been replaced by the occupation of the Galle Face\u00a0 Green by protestors who called themselves the \u2018Aragalayas\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Gone are the days when the residents in Colombo could have a breath of fresh air and endeavour an experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">The Aragalayas have fixed permanent camps, kitchen places to cook, toilets and bathing spots, spoiling the site\u2019s sanctity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Now, where can the Colombo peace-loving residents have a breath of fresh air and do their walks for health reasons anymore?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Should not the GMOA and other health organisations protest about this scenario for the health and wellbeing of the people?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">As the president states, there are other sites like Vihara Maha Devi park and\u00a0 Campbell park for the Aragalayas to camp and fight their cause.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Why penalise the residents of Colombo, deprive their healthy lifestyles and make\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">them suffer in their dwellings, and more so over the children?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">The protesters were also notified to take steps to vacate the area before 5 p.m on\u00a0 August 5, and legal action will be taken against those who do not follow the above\u00a0 instructions\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our lawyers have filed writ petitions at the Supreme Court and are working on that. If <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">there\u2019s a court ruling, then we will consider it. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Protesters say goodbye to the Galle Face site.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As reported in Newswave, According to the court decision taken by the Sri Lankan Police to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">evacuate the activists who were camped at the Galle Face site, many of the activists who <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were staying in that area were seen leaving by this evening. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to this, the police had previously told the protesters staying at the Galle Face <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">protest site to leave by 5 pm yesterday (05). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the visit by the NewsWave saw how the activists who had camped at that site for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more than three months gradually left by this notice.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, most of the fighters were the people who were still there the day the struggle started <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">last April.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some even left their jobs and joined the struggle ground, and it is extraordinary that they <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stayed on the site throughout their time.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was very emotional for these people to leave the struggle ground today. Most people said <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">goodbye to their friends with t eyes; many were seen kissing and embracing the people they <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">met in the struggle area.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was very emotional to see the people standing at the protest site looking at the crops they <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had planted there with a sigh and how they sadly touched the fruit that had grown there and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said goodbye. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cloud-laden Galle Face area did not get the usual golden sunset today, and it created a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">weather condition that matched the misery of the land. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We stayed there until the sun set, and only the signs could be seen at the end. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accordingly, even if the strugglers leave, the particular turn that the Galle Face site made in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the history of this country will always be remembered. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our message to Aragala protestors is that \u201cAll of you have done a great job by making Gotha <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leave his \\post of the presidency when he was firm in saying that he will continue in office as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he does not want to be referred to as a failed president in history. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Congratulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We feel that Ranil is in good form to bring the country to its pristine glory within a year with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his reforms and planning. 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