Obituary

Thevakantha Sarma died in Berlin, where he had lived for many years. He was a former member of the Tamil militant group EROS who later taught mathematics, worked as a nurse in Germany, and encouraged young Tamil writers. He was 55. Known to friends as Sarma and to his family as Kantha, he was born on 10 October 1971 and grew up in Selvanayagapuram, Trincomalee. He was the second son of Shanmugaratnasarma Jegatheeswara Sarma and Sebastiampillai Jesiamma. What happened to his elder brother shape

Subbulakshmi Kasinathan, a Sri Lankan Tamil actress whom radio listeners knew as Chellamani, the Jaffna-speaking wife of Appukutty in the comedy “Komaligal,” died on Tuesday at Scarborough General Hospital in Toronto. She was 84. She had been admitted to the hospital the day before. Her family said she died at about 4:35 p.m. local time with her two daughters and other relatives at her side. No cause was given. Ms. Kasinathan worked in radio drama, on the stage and in films in Sri Lanka, and l

Lal Wijenayake, a Kandy lawyer and six-decade veteran of Sri Lanka’s left who in his final months went to the Supreme Court to oppose a constitutional amendment introduced by his own party, the governing National People’s Power, died on Saturday evening at a private hospital in Kandy. He was 85. At his death, Mr. Wijenayake sat on three of the N.P.P.'s senior bodies: its Leadership Council, its Executive Committee and its National Operations Committee. He came to the coalition, which is built a