Shamindra Ferdinando, in The ISLAND, 23 September 2026, where the title reads “Thileepan’s fast unto death: An authentic narrative that many missed”
Almost four decades after his death, controversy still surrounds the circumstances leading to the former Jaffna Hindu College student, and Jaffna University undergraduate, launching the fast unto death.
MY Apologies … All the PHOTOs are on strike !!!
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Beardman will make his ODI debut while England likely need to decide which frontline spinner to play, but no one is really talking about that.
Time for tea? Harry Brook and Mitchell Marsh take a break • Getty Images
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Thushara Dissanayake in DailyFT, 12 November 2026, where the title runs thus: “Colombo under water: Is drainage system ready for challenges of a changing climate?”
Colombo National Hospital
The floods that inundated several parts of Colombo on November 06, 2026 have once again exposed the vulnerability of Sri Lanka’s commercial capital to heavy rainfall. This incident highlights the urgent need for a comprehensive assessment of the capacity and adequacy of the existing urban drainage system, particularly its ability to withstand increasingly intense rainfall events under changing climatic conditions. The flooding of several key areas brought economic and social activities to a standstill, underscoring the need to strengthen Colombo’s urban flood resilience through improved drainage infrastructure and effective stormwater management. Continue reading
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The small red paper flower is extremely popular in Europe, USA and the United Kingdom. The poppy flower symbolizes the blood and sacrifice of the millions of soldiers who were killed in direct combat. These deadly wars include World War 1, World War 2, Korean War, Vietnam War and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sri Lanka has faced its own armed conflict that lasted for three decades, which claimed thousands of lives. Today we have wars in the global theatre again. These include the war between Palestine and Israel, Ukraine and Russia and the war that has been fought by Israel and America against Iran and its proxy militant groups.
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Cat Wright
A homosexual slur?
You should – because if he was still living, that is what George Beven would have heard.
George Beven was born in Negombo in 1929 and died aged 93 on 29 January 2023. The Guardian newspaper described Beven in 2023 as “one of Sri Lanka’s leading contemporary artists.” (1) In 2015 Time Out described him as “one of Sri Lanka’s greatest figurative artists.” (2) The Sunday Times in 2023 remembers him as “one of Sri Lanka’s greatest modern artists.” (3)
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Nira Wickramasinghe: “Cinnamon: A History of Taste and Empire,”
The sweeping cultural history of a spice so coveted it launched empires across oceans, reshaped global trade, and bound generations of Sri Lankan peelers to colonial rule.
For millennia, cinnamon has been treasured for its healing powers and warm, unmistakable aroma. But behind its familiar scent lies a tumultuous past steeped in conquest and rebellion. In Cinnamon, acclaimed historian Nira Wickramasinghe traces the remarkable story of this ‘queen of spices’, from ancient Egyptian embalming tables and medieval Mughal kitchens to disastrous expeditions in search of mythical cinnamon lands in the Americas and the fierce imperial rivalries of the Portuguese, Dutch, and British. She reveals how global demand for ‘true’ cinnamon transformed Sri Lanka, where an entire caste of peelers, neither enslaved nor free, were compelled to harvest the bark under systems of semi-servitude, at times rising up in rebellion.
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Danyal Rasool’s Report in ESPNcricinfo, November 2026
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Michael Roberts
Brought up in what was then a British colony named CEYLON I took in much of the literature about World War Two found in the excellent library maintained at St. Aloysius College in Galle –especially the past issues of the London Illustrated News. This drawing room experience of war …..readings inattentive to its searing trauma and suffering …… was augmented by the war films featuring such heroes as Audie Murphy and Gregory Peck.
I am relatively more informed NOW. The sadness about the sufferings and the loss of lives is rendered deeper by the searing tunes of THE LAST POST.
I stand up ramrod straight in respect for all those who fought and died in World War Two.
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Usman Khawaja has revealed his version of the 2018 sandpaper scandal • Getty Images
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Author?
A memorable visit to the Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library six months ago left me in awe of the work undertaken by Victor over the past 50+ years.
The location of the Library, at his home, is one that Victor has very kindly afforded Sri Lankans in Australia to be able to access whenever the need existed for research and information.
SOME PIX of Victor in past and present required….. AND other items marking his work of recollection Editor, TPS
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Charith Senanayake in FACEBOOK, October 2026 Continue reading
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thuppahi
