The Christian schools in Colombo as St ThomasвЂ™, St PeterвЂ™s, St JosephвЂ™s, St BenedictвЂ™s provided much needed youth to work the bands. I love you, my dear beautiful sister.Likewise the Christian Schools in towns of Kandy, Ratnapura, Nawalapitiya, Galle, and Jaffna followed suit supplying vocalists and instrumentalists. Your family came first for you and your family was your life. How we went to school together in the mornings, how I picked you up from your English classes in Bambalapitiya. During 2019 when I visited you we talked about growing up in Kalubowila. Indrani, my sister, I canвЂ™t believe that you are gone forever. I cried for hours and days after hearing this news. I never suspected that she had been going through this. Before that we had attended my elder brotherвЂ™s funeral in Colombo and she was her usual self. She revealed her battle with cancer to me late in 2018. She was a very determined and brave lady during this time. Indrani battled with cancer for more than three years. She was clearly well-loved and well-respected by her colleagues, evident in the vast number who attended the funeral at the church service and burial. She even attended the season opening of ChantellaвЂ™s AFLW club, West Coast Eagles, at the MCG two weeks before she passed away.ДЄlways ambitious, Indrani joined National Australia Bank as a mortgage banker, and was later elevated to bank manager. 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 PrasadaвЂ™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 motherвЂ™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 вЂlucky sevenвЂ™ in a family of 10. A shining light in the Jayaweera family passed away on February 16, 2020.

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