Deshabandu Dr. Tissa Abeysekara, my school mate at Dharmapala Vidyalaya Pannipitiya in the early 1950’s, and since then my friend for nearly six decades has departed, leaving an indelible impression ...

Tissa Abeysekara, award winning script writer, filmmaker, actor, critic, academic and administrator who bid farewell to the nation last Wednesday is an irreplaceable loss to the country’s cinema and ...

Deshabandu Dr. Tissa Abeysekara – my schoolmate at Dharmapala Vidayala, Pannipitiya, in the early 1950s, and my lifelong friend for nearly six decades – has departed, leaving an indelible impression ...

Launched on August 11, coinciding with the 107th birth anniversary of his father, Roots, Reflections and Reminiscences by Dr. Tissa Abeysekara is first a son’s tribute to his parents for the cultural ...

The Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka, founded in 2005 to “safeguard the tangible and intangible heritage of Sri Lanka”, presented a lecture demonstration, by Dr. Tissa Abeysekara on the “Origins of Popular ...

My bosom friend Tissa Abeysekara, his family and I had planned a very different celebration for the day on which he would have achieved the Biblical span of three score years and ten had he yet been ...

A book on veteran filmmaker, award winning script writer and writer, late Dr. Tissa Abeysekara titled “Sri Lankeeya Cinemawe Abeysekera Salakuna” (Bringing Tissa Back Home) was launched at a special ...

In the fine U.S. debut of Sri Lankan filmmaker and author Abeysekara, who writes in English, four contemplative stories offer four middle-aged narrators' childhood reflections, with richly varied ...