Thuppahi's Blog

To: Mayor Tom Tate ….. “No Trump Golf Course on the Gold Coast!”

Mayor Tate: Gold Coast locals are demanding that you stop pitching the Gold Coast to the Trump family.

We didn’t want the tower, and now we don’t want this golf course. Drop this proposal for a Trump-branded golf course and resort, and commit publicly that no Trump deal will go before Gold Coast City Council. If Tate won’t do that, we’re calling on councillors to refuse it when it lands on their desks. Our coastline is not a bargaining chip for a Mar-a-Lago dinner.

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P Harshi Diaz, in Daily FT, 27 May 2026, where the title runs thus: “A comment on Dayan Jayatilleka’s ‘The Federalist fantasy: Tamil political tragedy, Lankan political history’,”

Dayan Jayatilleka rightly challenges the narrative that S. J. V. Chelvanayakam turned to federalism only after supposedly foreseeing Sinhala majoritarian discrimination against Tamils following the 1948 Citizenship Act. ……………………………………… (See https://www.ft.lk/columns/The-federalist-fantasy-Tamil-political-tragedy-Lankan-political-history/4-792193)

I would like to add another episode from Sri Lanka’s political history, one that has received absolutely no attention in studies of the conflict. This account is drawn directly from the Hansard reports of 1947, that is, even before Ceylon became an independent nation.

On 26 November 1947, during one of the earliest sessions of the State Council under the Soulbury constitution, the newly elected member for Kankesanthurai, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, raised the idea of secession in his remarks. He stated that the Tamils of Jaffna had the right to secede from Ceylon and suggested that, if they wished, such a move could even take place with India’s support.

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Speaking Three Days Ago when Trump was visiting China …. circa 25 May 2026 … 

The top men’s seeds for the 2026 French Open, led by World No. 1 Jannik Sinner, are confirmed

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WOMEN’S  SINGLES SEEDINGS

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The official women’s singles seedings for the 2026 French Open feature world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka as the top seed, with Elena Rybakina and Iga Świątek rounding out the top three. The tournament is currently underway at Roland Garros in Paris. 

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Dhananjaya De Silva to captain Test Team & Kusal Mendis the Two Short-form Squads

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Ar Fernando ….  whose prefferred title is “The Ghosts of Mount Mary: A Forgotten Railway Lega,cy”

Colombo’s history is not always found in grand landmarks. Sometimes, it exists quietly within the forgotten neighbourhoods—like Mount Mary in Dematagoda.

Built during the height of the railway era, these “Little English” bungalows were once the heartbeat of a community defined by routine, labour, and a shared culture. The Sri Lanka Railway—originally the Ceylon Government Railways (CGR)—was conceived in the 1850s, with service beginning in 1864. While it was initially built as an industrial artery to transport tea and coffee from the hill country to the port of Colombo, the railway soon became the lifeblood of the nation.

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Vox Populi

TAKE IN THIS ITEM: ….https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/poll-predicts-one-nation-federal-opposition/106714586

One Nation inherits the right-wing throne …..

JP… that is John Prins [?] …. “FEMALE BEAUTY IN CEYLON”[1]

“Ladies! – Young ladies! Be advised; hear the warning voice of one, who although an ardent worshipper at the shrine of beauty, yet despises the false conceptions and grand-mistaken notions entertained of female beauty and elegance. Nothing can be beautiful which seeks for its perfection the destruction and perversion of nature’s laws – nothing elegant, which ascribes to itself the rules of art in opposition to the dictates of nature”…… 

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https://www.elanka.com.au/memories-are-made-of-this-the-agar-hewawissa-plunkett-forbes-lineages-of-ceylon-by-michael-roberts/Editor Thuppahi:

In support of his revelatory essay on Asian migrants to Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century, Earlson Forbes has sent TPS examples of the DICTATION TEST that was deployed to keep out the unwanted illiterate.

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