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Michael  Roberts  conveying Senaka Weeraratna’s Latest Protest concerning  DRS

SENAKA is not backward in  presenting his demand again and again. Here he deploys one “Roberts” in his support. However let me stress that I am NOT an authority on the topic and that my decliining memories at this stage in my life renders me an unreliable foundation for this topic. I suspect that this will NOT prevent Senaka from beating this drum ….. over and over again …. maybe even to the  point of self-defeating repetition!

SENAKA’s POST

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Michael Roberts, venturing into the STATS in his Website to ascertain items that received HITS  one day in May ….. and discovering Items he did know to exist!

• The Parsi’s of Sri Lanka: A Small but Vibrant Community
• Beyond Imagination – Chandra Schaffter’s Life of Servi

• Eduard Hempel Flourishes in Galle and Lanka

• The “Colombo Bharathas”: A Merchant Community

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Rohan Gunaratna’s recent security analysis presented in Thuppahi represents a deeply biased, methodologically flawed interpretation of contemporary global conflict. In pulling back the layers of a self-proclaimed independent academic, we can see his deep ties to the Singaporean university establishment and, by extension, the state security apparatus. Rather than offering an objective exercise in counterterrorism, his work functions as a calculated piece of state-aligned propaganda designed to advance a specific pro-Israeli and pro-Western ideological agenda. Gunaratna frames a new “third stream of terrorism”—allegedly driven by Iranian state-sponsored propaganda—by weaponizing isolated incidents, such as the 1 March 2026 mass shooting in Austin, Texas, perpetrated by Ndiaga Diagne. His proposed solution relies on heavy-handed state surveillance and the aggressive censorship of social media platforms by tech conglomerates. However, this thesis fundamentally misreads history, utilizes language as a weapon of propaganda, and operates within a closed geopolitical vacuum that ignores the structural architectures under which Gunaratna himself operates.

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Hiran Hewavisenti in FB

The rumour mill is busy at work with DDS expected to retain the test captaincy and Kusal Mendis all but appointed to lead the two white ball squads – and lately, news that Kamindu Mendis is being considered as vice captain of the test and T20 sides. Which leaves the job of deputy of the ODI team pending, with Charith or Pathum being frontrunners to fill it?

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Michael Roberts

Yesterday’s IPL match, where the Delhi Capitals beat the Punjab Kings  in a high-scoring match with a tense finish, was remarkable in many ways.

A: …  with a No 9 batsman walking in and hitting a six and afour to secure a victory for the Delhi Capitala — his name being Auqib Jabi  [whose strike rate therefore notched 500!]

B: ,,,, with the losing side bowling as many as  17 wides and overreaching the winners who bowled ONLY 11 wides !! … SO THAT one can say that the losers “outwided the winners” !@#

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Rohan Gunaratna, whose chosen title is “The New Global Wave of Terrorism” …

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An  Item in  Facebook from Roshan Abeysinghe ….. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JLGYX1wiP/

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Dr Rajiva Wijesinha, reviewing a book by Prof S Pathmanathan, in an essay entitled  “Glimpses of an Ancient Civilization Society and Culture in Jaffna (300 BC –AD 500)”

It was an honour to have been asked last month to the launch of this impressive tome by a former colleague, Prof Pathmanathan. Indeed I think of him as an old friend, for he had been Vice-Chairman of the University Grants Commission while I was in charge of the pre-University General English Language Training Course.

He had been at Peradeniya during my brief tenure there and, though I could not remember him very well, he and the Chairman first appointed by Prof Kumaratunga, treated me as a great ally. They had been part of the opposition to the partisan establishment of my time there, represented most horrendously by Kingsley de Silva, and so they had been delighted when I resigned my position over the deprivation of Mrs Bandaranaike’s Civic Rights.

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Desert Wanderer, …. in A Critique of  Dr Harold Goonetileka’s Essay “Geopolitical Ramifications …”

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Riyaz Aluher

Motherhood has never changed in its essence. A mother’s love, sacrifice, care, and silent strength remain the same across generations. What has changed is the world around her. As society evolves, the role of a mother too has adapted to meet new realities, new responsibilities, and new expectations.

Side view close-up of pregnant woman touching her belly. Pregnancy health & wellbeing concept.

The mothers of yesterday lived in a simpler world, yet their lives were far from easy. Many dedicated themselves entirely to their homes and children, often placing their own dreams aside without complaint. They woke up before everyone else and slept after everyone else. They managed households with limited resources, raised children with discipline and values, and carried enormous emotional strength in silence. Their parenting came through personal attention, storytelling, family bonding, and deep human connection. Children spent more time around their parents, and mothers became the first teachers of life, culture, religion, and manners.

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