Indrani was very proud of her daughters and always talked about their achievements. She represented her country in basketball with the Emerging Opals, the World University Games and the FIBA under 21 World Championships, all extraordinary achievements. Indrani and Prasada’s second child Chantella was born in Melbourne, and continued the family tradition of excelling in sport. She was always very bubbly and lively, with a beautiful unique smile. Over the years we met each other a number of times, in Sydney, Melbourne and Colombo. In 1989 I followed and settled in Sydney. In 1984 Indrani and her family moved to Melbourne, Australia and settled down in Wantirna South, living there for 36 years until four months before she passed away. Indrani loved cooking and knew all my mother’s secret recipes. In a foreign country far from home, we became very close and often visited each other on the weekend. In 1979 Gamini and Indrani invited me and my wife, Prasani, to settle down in London. During that time their first child Veronica was born. In 1975, Indrani and Prasada migrated to England and lived there for nine years, first in Newbury, then Reading. They loved each other and it was a perfect match.
Indrani and Prasada were married for 46 years. Prasada was the holder of the Ceylon record for 800m for a number of years before it was broken by Kosala Sahabandu. They were brought together by a common athletic bond. Indrani married Prasada Perera at Fatima Church in Maradana in December 1974 after meeting each other at the Peradeniya Campus. Following this she joined the Singer company head office in Ratmalana. In the same year, she entered the University of Peradeniya and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1972. An athletics star, in 1968 she set the Ceylon record at the public schools athletics meet. Indrani had her early education at Buddhist Girls High School in Colpetty, and completed her schooling at Anula Vidyalaya in Nugegoda in 1968. Indrani, my elder sister, was born in Colombo on Mato Nonis and Charlotte Jayaweera from Kamburupitiya, Matara, the ‘lucky seven’ in a family of 10. A shining light in the Jayaweera family passed away on February 16, 2020.
0 kommentar(er)
