VARIED…. IMMEDIATE – APRIL 2019
USA’s Deep Demonic Reach Embraces Sri Lanka
Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose chosen title runs thus “Easter Sunday 20019 to IRIS Dena 2026: The Weaponization of Religion in the Indian Ocean World” … …. with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
The United States torpedo of the Iranian ship, IRIS Dena, in the Seas of Sri Lanka last month reveal Geopolitical economic continuities with a crime committed seven years ago: The 2019 ISIS-claimed Easter Sunday terror attacks were a complex logistical operation in 6 different sea-front locations on the east and west coasts of geostrategic. Then as now, the Mastermind of the crime remained hidden in plain sight.
The Easter attacks of 2019 killed four Chinese marine research scientists who were staying at the Kingsbury hotel, which overlooks the Colombo harbor- South Asia’s busiest port. This resulted in the Chinese Research Vessel- Shi Yan-3 that was docked in the Colombo Harbour abandoning its mission and returning immediately to China. The Chinese research team was collaborating with the National Aquatic Research Agency (NARA), on a project in the Eastern Seas off Lanka.
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My Sister Marjorie Roberts: A Vibrant & Sturdy Soul
A VALE in Her Memory from Another Sister, Estelle Fernando nee Roberts, n.d. **
Our sister Margie is at rest from her labours. She was our big sister. Though small in Stature, she was big in every other sense of the word. When I was a little girl, I admired her because she was so jolly, so practical, so matter of fact. She never failed to call a spade a spade, but all the time she was so good at heart.
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England’s County Championship Dawns & Draws “THOUGHTS”
Interviews by Vithushan Ehantharajah, Alan Gardner, Andrew Miller and Matt Roller.
The County Championship season gets underway on Friday, bringing with it a sense of excitement and renewal after Rob Key’s recent pledge to repair the broken relationship between the England team and the domestic game. Since Key’s comments, ESPNcricinfo has surveyed a number of senior players within county cricket to gather their perspectives ahead of the new season.
LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 12: The Old Father Time weather vane pictured during the second day of the ICC World Test Championship Final between South Africa and Australia at Lord’s Cricket Ground on June 12, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Philip Brown/Popperfoto/Popperfoto via Getty Images)
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One “Michael Roberts” from Sri Lanka …
Featured by Adilah Ismail of the SUNDAY TIMES of Sri Lanka in January 2016….under this title “Colourful history of a historian”
Looking back on his ‘going-down memory lane interviews’ with retired Britishers and Sri Lankans who served mainly in the Ceylon Civil Service, Michael Roberts who was in Sri Lanka recently, talks to Adilah Ismail about the beginnings of a passion.
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The World Endangered …. By USA & Israel
Assassinations & Coffee, … with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
SEE …. https://youtube/ZXDWh3faH_Y?si=8WSx_UD6NyosGvKl
While accurate, these arguments lack originality and have been more sharply detailed by figures like John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, and Alastair Crooke. The inevitable decline of US global leadership is well-documented; however, the transition is set to be exceptionally volatile and painful for the world—a direct result of the current agendas of the US and Israeli governments.
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Lankan Cricketers Who Moved Abroad …..
Charitha Senanayake & Bhatiya Perera in FACEBOOK, April 2026
Many former cricketers and athletes leave our shores because they feel they have little more to offer here, or that their contributions are not fully appreciated. Taking that next step in life and moving overseas is never easy, especially when trying to rebuild and make a career in a new environment.
Yet, many of them continue to shine, no matter where they go.
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The History of Ceylon Tea and Cricket in Sri Lanka
David Colin-Thome in 2003 …. being an item in THE HISTORY OF CEYLON NEWSLETTER, August 2021, …. now selected for TPS on invitation by David Schokman of Perth
“You will think I write a lot about the scenery, but if you saw it you would not think I said too much” – James Taylor (Pioneering tea planter describing Ceylon in a letter to his father in Scotland in 1858)
In Sri Lanka, the relevance of tea to the game of cricket extends further than that of a twenty-minute break that separates lunch and the end of a day’s play. And while tea to the Western world is but a tiny item in a crowded shopping trolley of groceries, in Sri Lanka, it is the trolley itself.
For over a century, ‘Ceylon Tea’ has been the backbone of the country’s economy and to many individual Sri Lankans, its significance looms even larger. To the poorest of the poor, a cup of tea is often the substitute for a solid, but unaffordable meal.
In the present context, the game of cricket is no less important. While Sri Lanka has been competing at the highest level for just over two decades, cricket has truly evolved, if not quite into a national game, then surely into a national past-time. Its value cannot be solely measured by the vast amounts of foreign currency the game generates for Sri Lanka (relative to the country). In times of hardship and trouble, and Sri Lanka has had its share of both, and then some, cricket is the soothing balm of the common soul; their anaesthetic from the copious doses of an unsympathetic reality.
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“PERADENIYA DAYS” …. Trevor Lowe’s Discerning Talk in Melbourne
Michael Roberts
An English University couple, Mary and Trevor Lowe, both served Sri Lanka as Lecturers in the Science Faculty at PERADENIYA UNIVERSITY for several years from 1969. My wife and I sustained a warm friendship with both and made several trips to spots in Lanka during their stay. We have also visited them subsequently at their home in Taunton, England.
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