A selection of past presentations on YouTube. Some were posted by Mahendra on his channel before our own Channel was created by Ruwan.
SLLS 140: Dr Ajith Amarasinghe A Judge and his Boy. Oct 11th Sunday 2026
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SLLS 139. A conversation with Ashok Ferrey. Sunday July 5th. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7m2Zf_AnYA
SLLS 138: The rise and fall of the Naked Ape. Dr Dilogen de Alwis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ujTNis3blI
SLLS 137: Sunday 15th February 2026. The Poetry of Music. Sunil R Gamage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Ls6Tkk9t8
SLLS 136: Sunday 25th January 2026. Laughter and Lyricism; Humour and poetry as academic companions.
Dr Chula Herath,Senior Consultant Nephrologist SJGH (retired)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=calkR0VzHDc
SLLS 135: JANUARY 11TH 2026.at 1:00 pm UK, 18:30 SL
Natural Disasters that are a threat to LIfe on Earth
Dr Kavan Ratnatunga
https://youtu.be/aAjQQHmoGWg?si=2XXubSPl-tLN_9xe
SLLS 131: Sunday May 18th 2025: 2.00 pm UK. 6.30 pm SL
Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle: New Perspectives.
Prof. Shihan de Silva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CqaUwZzW1E
SLLS 129: Sunday March 2nd 2025:
13:00 GMT "Twins in Science and Society: Bridging Multiple Frontiers"
Prof Atula Sumathipala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_IhpWuuSl8
SLLS 128: Sunday 16 Feb, 2025 Agricultural Toxicant Diseases of SL's dry Zone.
Dr Kamal Gammanpila
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJIsyae0n9c
SLLS 127. Sunday Jan 26th 2025. SL Public Servants, are they Masters or Servants
by Austin Fernando. Former Secretary to President Sirisena and later High Commissioner to India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-bJ2tHf14
SLLS 126. Sunday January 5th 2025, Sri Lankan Cricket in the UK: Rochana Jayasinghe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGU1gAuJP8U
SLLS 125 Sunday December 1st 13:00 UK
https://youtu.be/ThptCKH8vak?si=cKFDhrU3tJvUWNWo
SLLS 124 Sunday October 20th, 14:00 hrs UK
"The Beauty of the Music of Sunil Santha"
Dr Ruvan Ekanayake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDGCPVWMYAY
SLLS 123 Sunday September 29th, 13:00 hrs UK
"Poetry: a means to inculcate attitudes and evoke humaneness in medical professionals"
Prof Narada Warnasuriya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3h0h-m86aM
SLLS 122 Sunday June 23rd, 14:00 hrs UK
"The dream, reality and the nightmare - will history repeat itself?"
Dr Lalith Chandrakantha
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsKiwXTle4U&t=700s
SLLS 118: Feb 11th 2024 . Our Village Festival: Reflections on Sri Lankan Culture Through Children's Artwork.- The Dr Prasanna Cooray Memorial Lecture
Prof Bob Simpson, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Durham, UK
YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SytVMrm9pw.
SLLS 117: Sunday 14th January 2024 at 15.00 (3:00 pm UK), 20.30 SL
Topic: "SL Economic crisis: NPP (National Peoples Power) or known as JJB (Jathika Jana Balawegaya) Solutions ". Speaker: Prof Anil Jayantha Fernando.
Format: This was an open Q&A session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_NkBu7p-2U
SLLS 116: Sunday 12th November 2023 at 13:00 uk
The Genius of Karunaratne Abeysekera resurrected. Dr Upula Wijeyawardhana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfU4O_js4uc
SLLS 115:Sunday October 22nd 2023 2,00 pmUK.
Dr Uditha Jayatunga made a presentation titled "Intelligent Design as Proof of Creation"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0rIZ2vdhkk
SLLS 114:Sunday 11th June 2023
THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS OF BUDDHIST RITUALS IN DISEASE
Dr Prasanna Cooray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBgclQKueio
SLLS 113: Sunday 7th May at 2.00 pm UK.
Dr Mahilal Fonseka. on Country music.
Sunday, 07/05/2023 at 1400 UK/ 1830 SL time
SLLS 112: Masks and Mythology of Sri Lanka, Dr Premasiri Mapalagama
Sunday, 23rd April 2023 at 1400 UK/1830 SL time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lGKa8lGAVk
SLLS 111: An Evening with Dayan Witharana
Sunday, 26th March 2023 at 1400 UK/1830 SL time
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SLLS 110: SLLS 110: 19th March 2023.
The Legacy of Arthur C Clarke (1917-19/03/2008) by Dr Kavan Ratnatunga
Date: Sunday, 19th March 2023 at 1300 GMT/1830 SL time
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SLLS Meeting No: 109: Sunday Feb 19th: Reflections on Higher Education in Sri Lanka, Prof Panduka Karunanayake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwRw7-TCBNs
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Meeting No: 108: Sunday Feb 5th : Merging Western & Eastern styles of singing - the good, the bad & the happy middle path" - Dr Nilanka Wickramasinghe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv-lMZopj-8
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Meeting No: 107: Reflections by Frederica Jansz: The Formidable Woman of Lanka
Sun 29 Jan 2023 17:00 - 20:00 (GMT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyt2Lx5mP_A
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Meeting No: 106: Sunday 18th januray 2023 'Sinhala' Identity in the Philosophy of Cumaratunga Munidasa- Ruvan Ekanayaka
Sun 15 Jan 2023 13:00 - 16:00 (GMT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FpNDrmsSRI
Meeting No 105: Sunday Dec 4th at 2.00 pm UK time. Science Parks in Cambridge and SL
John Porter
Meeting No 104: Sunday 27th November 2022 1.00 pm UK
Playwriting and Theatre Skills Interactive Work
Part 1- Jaika Witana
Meeting No 103: Sunday Novmber 6th 2022. 1 pm UK
Elephants. වනේ අලි, ගමේ අලි, රටේ අලි
Aruna Botejue and Sameera Weeratunga
Meeting No 102: Sunday October 23rd 2022. 2 pm UK
A musical evening with Harsha Makalande
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrhQ0TMaCc
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Meeting No 101: Sunday October 2nd 2022. 2 pm UK
Can SL cycle out of the current situation? by Dr Lalith Chandrakantha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_anhXlOsrU&t=3673s
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Meeting No 100: Sunday September 25th 2022. 2 pm UK
Scientific View of our Universe
Kavan Ratnatunga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGY9O3yHIYk
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Meeting No: 99 Sunday September 18th 2.00 pm
QE II & Sri Lanka: Special Commemoration programme.
Dr Kavan Ratnatunga, Dr Ruwan De Soysa and DrJohn Porter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olcwgHADYZc&t=5322s
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Topic: SLLS 98. "Thoughts and Visions through Brush Strokes" Lakshmi Perera.
Time: September 11th Sunday, 2.00 pm. London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hES5_THE3Ok&t=7s
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Meeting No: 97 Sunday 10th July at 2.00 pm UK. "Ancient Hydraulic Civilization of Sri Lanka: Some New Lines of Inquiry".
Professor C.M. Madduma Bandara (Ph D, Cambridge, D Sc. (Hon.)Emeritus Professor, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6xHRwNCxY&t=47s
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Meeting No: 96: Sunday 26th June 2022. "Ancient Sri Lanka and the ebb and flow of Indian Ocean trade through Buddhist iconographies", Professor Osmund Bopearachchi. B.A. from the University of Kelaniya (Sri Lanka)B.A. honours, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. from the Paris 1 Sorbonne University, and a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation) from the Paris 4 Sorbonne University..
YouTube record not available but a very similar lecture given by him with the same title and streamed live on 11th October 2020 is available on YouTube (In sinhala)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brd-gXXiziw
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Topic: SLLS 95: Towards a United Sri Lanka by Dr Prashan De Visser
Time: June 19, 2022 14:00 London.
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Meeting No: 94: Sunday the 29th of May at 2:00 pm UK tIme. Nuwan Jayatilleka, Film Director
අද්යතන සිංහල සිනමාවේ අනාගතය සහ අභියෝග - Challenges to the Contemporary Sinhala Cinema. This talk was in Sinhalese and hosted by Ruwan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GR2EarmfPo
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Topic: SLLS 93: Uncovering Musical Histories by Dr Eshantha Peiris
Time: May 8, 2022 14:00 London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjSnpIb1_ng
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Meeting No: 92, Sunday April 10th at 2.00 pm UK Time.Wally Bastianz and Chorus Baila: Poetry, Music and Song Performed by Past and Present Artists. Presented by Prof Shihan De Silva.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQp-YHVh_A&t=1649s
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Meeting No: 91, Sunday March 27th at 1.00 pm UK Time.Anagarika Dharmapala: Vision for a Global Buddhism
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Meeting No: 90, Sunday March 13th at 1.00 pm UK Time. Dr Prasanna Cooray- " Politics of a Rainforest: Sinharaja Story"
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Meeting No 89: February 27th at 1.00 pm UK time Do we live upside down? How maps shape our worldview.by Rochana Jayasinghe.
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SLLS 88: Sinhala Buddhist & Christian Immigrants in an around London
Rt Rev Bishop Keerthisiri Fernando, Bishop of Kurunegala
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Meeting No 87 Sunday30th January at 1.00 pm UK time.
"Art and Architecture of Religious Confluence in SL"
Hasini Haputhantri
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SLLS Meeting 86: Time: Jan 9, 2022 13:00 London
"Exploring the non-thermal universe: the Cherenkov Telescope Array"
Prof Tim Greenshaw. Professor of Physics, Liverpool University.
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Meeting No:85. Sunday November 28th 2021 at 1.00 pm Dr Charith Nanayakkara
"The Beverley Allitt Saga"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lch9OJ0bZmc
https://youtu.be/ygB1PRjt4PQ
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Meeting No: 84. Sunday November 14th 2021 T 12.30 pm . Arjuna Ranatunga
"Resurrecting Sri Lanka Cricket to its former glory"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyX_D057NjU
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Meeting No : 83 October 24th Sunday at 2.00 pm UK time
"The Cultural history and traditions of Sri Lankan Tamils"
Hosted and Chaired by Mahendra
Speaker: Dr V.Nerminathan, Retired Consultant Paediatrician, Southend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg1hvb2y7UM
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Meeting no:82 October 10th Sunday at 2.00 on Uk.
"Where Batik craft meets Contemporary Fashion"
Speaker: Darshi Keerthisena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTDJYHddESE
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Meeting No 81 Sunday September 26th. 2.00 pm UK. "Astroarchaeological evidence on Buddha’s "visit" to Lanka
Speaker; Dr Kavan Ratnatunga.BSc, MS, PhD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdzr9hyDmAk
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Meeting No: 80 Dr Jaika Witana. "Appreciation of Visual Arts and everything else"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_o2taROAc0
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Meeting No 79. Prof Ravi Silva. "Solar energy and the energy revolution"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXidifBvjuY
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Meeting No 78. Prof Rohini Paranavitana. "Hatan Kavya - War Poems of Sri Lanka"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6PfO6nKNA
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Meeting No 77. Prof Saroj Jayasinghe. Music and the Brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYhG-4aKRaA&t=17s
Meeting No 76. Ameena Hussein. Ibn Batuta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYzvtMBtsoM
Meeting No:75. April 30th Sunday 2:00 pm UK time.Prof KD Paranavithana. Galle Heritage City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnOwqA-orI4
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Meeting No: 74: May 16th :2:00 pm Musician Rukshan Perera. "Music and Social Responsibility" cancelled
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Meeting No:73. April 25th Sunday 1:00 pm UK time. Rohan Pethiyagoda . Biodiversity scientist,, Naturalist. and Author. "Biogeography: How Sri Lanka got its Plants and Animals" .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5g1s85ehqg
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April 18th. No 72 Sunday 1:00 pm UK time. Ravibandu Vidyapathy "Traditional Music of Sri Lanka".
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Meeting No: 71.: April 11th Sunday at 2:00 pm UK. Dr Bernardine Dias. PhD. Roboticist. Title: "Global adventures in Field Robotics"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IIghvMgt8M&t=381s
Meeting No: 67 March 7th. Sunday 2.00 pm UK time. Dayasisira Hewa Gamage. Author and Anthropology researcher . "Cultural trails from Jaffna to Kandy"
Dayasisira Gamage presentation
No: 63 Sunday February 7th 2021 at 11.30 am. Niranjan Selvadurai -""Second innings: Bringing free thought and poetry into focus”
Sathyodaya and poetry discussion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3KdBWnuoc8&t=262s
Meeting No: 61: January 17th at 10.30 am. Sunil Perera of Gypsies fame. About his life story, his non musical work in politics, charity, business etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtVfZ4N9Hk&t=44s
No: 50.: Sunday 27th Sept- Time: 12:00 noon. Prof Sanjiva Wijesinha "My journey on the Camino and the book it created"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmnpYxCXw6k&t=5405s
No 48: Sunday 13th September - at 1:00 pm Mr Indran Hensman. Surgeon in Australia. "Robotic surgery, AI, Digital surgery-Fiction or reality" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJr_C1QZZJo
No 46: Sunday August 30th -at 2.00 pm UK "Mahendra in conversation with Prof Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran - Philosophy behind my actions'".
Sir Arulkumaran was interviewed by Mahendra in a Q&A format. Sir Arul expressed his appreciation and congratulated the SLLS for carrying out such worthwhile activities for over a decade.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSCsC5o2ALY&t=4764s
Meeting No 28 January 25th 2020 . Included A tribute to Prof Carlo Fonseka. A moving speech by Dr Udara Kularatne
YouTube link ___https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtbZIa9tGI&t=159s_________________________________________________________
You can watch this clip of the "Laughter" presentation by Mahendra Gonsalkorale. Unfortunately, it is not possible to link the video clips and songs.
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