Jeffrey Sachs in You Tube Interview
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgzQfCMvFjNgxMmQkpcbgjlMRjZsr?projector=1
Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. and Israel underestimated Iran
….. mass murder [by Israel….in Palestine] …endorsed by the United States
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M. Tharik in Daily News, 12 March 2026, where the title reads “The Man who turns Stones into Sight”
This village is located close to Pilimatalawa. I come across a man who sits at a small workbench turning stone into sight. The room is modest. There are no machines or rows of factory tools. Instead, on a table worn smooth by years of work, lies a piece of pale crystal taken from the earth. The craftsman presses it against a rotating tool slowly and patiently. He would go on shaping it until it becomes something remarkable: a lens. It is not glass. Nor plastic. It is stone.
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Desert Wanderer
https://jordantimes.com/news/
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Professor M. W. Amarasiri de Silva, in The ISLAND, March 2026 …where the title runs “A Tribute to Professor H. L. Seneviratne,” while the highlighting here is The Editor’s intervention
My earliest memories of the eminent anthropologist, Professor H. L. Seneviratne date back to my childhood, when I first encountered his name through the vivid accounts of campus life shared by my late brother, Sugathapala de Silva, then a lecturer in the Department of Sinhala at the University of Peradeniya. By the time I became a first-year sociology student in 1968/69, I had the privilege of being taught by the Professor, whose guidance truly paved the way for my own progression in sociology and anthropology. Even then, it was clear that he was a towering presence—not just as an academician, but as a central figure in the lively cultural and literary renaissance that defined that era of the university’s intellectual history.
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The Baron of Black Water
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Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, during a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, May 2, 2025. … Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Rajiva Wijesinha, reviewing Asanga Abeyagoonasekera’s new book in The ISLAND, March 2026
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera’s latest book is a comprehensive account of international relations in the regions it covers, with particular reference to current rivalries between India and China and the United States. It deals with shifting alliances, or rather alliances that grow stronger or weaker through particular developments: there are no actual breaks in a context in which the three contestants for power in the region are wooing or threatening smaller countries, moving seamlessly from one mode to the other though generally in diplomatic terms.
The area is now widely referred to as the Indo-Pacific. Though that term was coined over a hundred years ago by a German keen to challenge the Anglo-American hegemony that triumphed after the First World War, it gained currency more recently, following a speech by the hawkish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was instrumental in developing the Quad Alliance between Japan, India, the United States and Australia.
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Desert Wanderer, …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor Thuppahi
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Item from … ??… in FACEBOOK, 11 March 2026Here’s a great news for Sri Lankan cricket fans! Make our lion waves a revolutionary team in the world again, a great man who is considered the “brainer” of the cricket world is coming to Sri Lanka.He’s none other than South African super batsman Gary Kirsten!What does Sri Lanka get from the winning horse Gary Kirsten?
Gary Kirsten will be taking over as the head coach of the Sri Lankan team for two years, running from April 15, 2026. This isn’t just an appointment; it’s a religion of a coach who won the World Cup and raised the number one teams in the world.
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