Supun Jayasinghe was in Grade Five, too, when he went there with the rest of his class seven years later. The only exception, apart from the year of the visit, was where he came from: a 100 miles away, in Dambulla. Standing up, he looked at them and described what they were, laying emphasis on the school more than the complex. An even better piece of news came soon afterwards: the cut-off mark for Royal in 2012 happened to be 182. The latter awed him: he hadn’t listened to many English songs, let alone school anthems, until then.

Source: The Nation April 10, 2021 00:11 UTC