Sixty years on, 'exotic' Colombo Plan alumni to revisit Alma Mater

By Catherine Armitage
November 23 2012 - 3:00am

WHEN Tennyson Rodrigo came to Australia from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to study chemical engineering in 1952, he was so ''exotic'' that the Herald ran a front page picture of him attending a ball, and he was invited on to ABC Radio to introduce Australian audiences to the sitar.

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