{"id":142562,"date":"2024-06-20T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=142562"},"modified":"2024-06-20T14:51:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:51:06","slug":"former-dig-munidasa-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/06\/20\/former-dig-munidasa-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DIG Munidasa no more,"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Garvin Karunaratne<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It is sad to reflect that DIG Munidasa (Muni) is no more. &nbsp;As a relative of mine he was very close to us and very helpful on many an occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muni hails from a family group &nbsp;from Pilane, Galle, that has greatly contributed to Mother Lanka- he as a senior officer in the Police Force, another of his generation becoming a Commissioner of Inland Revenue, &nbsp;a Professor in Medicine and in the next generation a leading outstanding doctor, &nbsp;Dr Ananda Wijewickrema<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We kept in close touch in Sri Lanka, he in the Police Force and me in the Administrative Service working in many a District. His work was always perfect, kind to all and a concerned servant of Lanka , an officer of very high integrity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later he moved to Oregon USA, where he was madly involved with growing roses and keeping bees. We have had the occasion to enjoy his hospitality in Oregon and I would never forget his showing me his vast collection of roses with such depth of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His love for his Motherland made him move back to Sri Lanka where he made a home with his children&nbsp; at Maharagama, where I have had the occasion to meet him again and experience the abundant hospitality of his home&nbsp; in the past two years and talk and think of old times when we did contribute to our Motherland through turbulent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel sorry that I will not have Muni to see and chat when I next get home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May his path in Samsara be short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garvin Karunaratne, once G.A Matara 20th June 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garvin Karunaratne It is sad to reflect that DIG Munidasa (Muni) is no more. &nbsp;As a relative of mine he was very close to us and very helpful on many an occasion. Muni hails from a family group &nbsp;from Pilane, Galle, that has greatly contributed to Mother Lanka- he as a senior officer in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}