By Ty Hyderally My Dad…a true gentleman who handled himself with grace and dignity. Some moments from my time with Dad: Outside in the front lawn throwing and catching a baseball. Yes… Dad was more than brilliant as an Anesthesiologist… he could also throw a baseball… well, kind of…. My […] Read More
Robert Wood Johnson Medicine (A publication for alumni and friends of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) Tirty-two years after leaving civil war–torn Sri Lanka to pick up his studies at Rutgers University, followed by Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Sukumar Nagendran, MD ’94, still marvels at where that […] Read More
In the aftermath of the terrible attacks that took place in Sri Lanka on 21st April 2019, Easter Sunday, which unfortunately caused death and destruction to not only a large number of Catholic devotees, but also to members of other religious communities, and caused immense damage to the economy of […] Read More
The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka : Sunday, August 25, 2019 At a time when the United Nations has intensified its global campaign for gender parity as part of its 2030 Development Agenda, Sri Lanka has stepped in with a “first”. Breaking an insurmountable 63- year- old gender barrier at the […] Read More
The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka : Sunday, June 16, 2019 NEW YORK — When Sri Lanka’s outgoing Permanent Representative Dr Rohan Perera first stepped into the United Nations as a delegate back in 1980, he entered the building, accompanied by then Permanent Representative Ambassador Ben Fonseka, “through the UN’s revolving […] Read More
On April 21, 2019, around midnight, I was greeted by family and friends with the phrase “Happy Birthday.” Minutes later, I was then greeted with a tragedy striking in the country my parents had grown up in. I was told bombs had gone off in Sri Lanka. I was shocked, […] Read More
It is with sincere thanks that I write to acknowledge receipt of your kind contribution via Bank Transfer for the sum of US$ 18,301/- (Rs. 3,175,294.10) towards the Relief Fund for the victims and their families affected by this senseless attack. It is truly a tragedy as Sri Lanka was […] Read More
“If there ls to be peace on earth and goodwill toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe,and believe that all reality hinges on moral foundations” […] Read More
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