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VAIBHAV SOIRIYAVANSHI smashes  94 runs from 29 balls as India A maul Sri Lanka A at Dambulla …

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Vox Populi

Wow Michael, what a fascinating set of reflections relating to the definitions of genocide and pogrom…. referring here to the TPS essay, viz https://thuppahis.com/2023/07/26/reflections-my-engagement-with-the-pogrom-of-july-1983-in-sri lank/#:~:text=Reflections%3A%20My%20Engagement%20with%20the,living%20and%2For%20working%20in%20the

I find myself in complete agreement with you. We live in an age of genocide inflation or concept creep, where the definition of a word expands so broadly it loses its original meaning. To call the July 1983 violence a genocide is inappropriate; if left unchecked, we would indeed be forced to “invent another concept” just to describe much more extreme, systematic atrocities.

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FROM Rashantha De Alwis in FACEBOOK, 21 June 2026

A Russian Jew as finally allowed to emigrate to Israel. At Moscow airport, customs found a Lenin statue in his baggage and asked: “What is this?”

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AI Overview

https://www.google.com/search?q=Roberts%2C+Michael+1996+%E2%80%9CFilial+Devotion+and+the+Tiger+Cult+of+Suicide%2C%E2%80%9D+Contributions+to+Indian+Sociology+30%3A+245-72.&oq=Roberts%2C+Michael+1996+%E2%80%9CFilial+Devotion+and+the+Tiger+Cult+of+Suicide%2C%E2%80%9D+Contributions+to+Indian+Sociology+30%3A+245-72.&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUY

The article can be located on Taylor & Francis Online or indexed via Library of Social Science. [1, 2]

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A Note from  RICHARD  KOENIGSBERG**  with whom  I have  been exchanging  World News for Decades, 21 June 2027

As you can see below, you OPENED (Clicked) most of the Newsletters sent during the last day (Jan. 19) EXCEPT “Trump & Hitler in the same bed?” which was released to you, but not opened.
This Newsletter is the one that generated 1800 hits.

Regards, Richard

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Lasantha Pethiyagoda in Colombo  Telegraph, 11 June 2026, where the title runs thus: “Suddek Alluwath Api Goda” (Latch Onto A White Foreigner, We Are All Set)”

Ever since foreign tourism was introduced to Sri Lanka, this epithet developed in scope and regularity with the ever-depreciating rupee against hard currencies. For poor people along the coastline tourist areas, this was what parents wished for the children.

Most luxury homes in fishing villages are either owned or funded by white foreigners or offspring through their often-dubious relationships with local boys, girls, women or men. No longer did fishermen, sculptors or mask-workers train their kids to follow their own trade or seek educational qualifications. Latching onto a white-skinned foreigner became the life goal.

Prof (Emeritus) Lasantha Pethiyagoda

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Sri Lanka, Serendib and the Silk Road of the Sea ... by Sanjiva WIJESINHA as a Kindle Edition

  This timely and well written book fills a major hiatus in Sri Lanka’s history. There is currently very little information available about the island’s role as a major hub in Indian Ocean trade since ancient times – and ‘Sri Lanka, Serendib and the Silk Road of the Sea’ more than adequately fills the gap…. https://www.amazon.com.au/Sri-Lanka-Serendib-Silk-Road-ebook/dp/B0GM2W96K5

Vox Populi

Wow Michael, …. referring here to the TPS essay.

An Act of Consciousness Raising: The Concept ‘Pogrom’ and its Extension to Sri Lanka

I find myself in complete agreement with you. We live in an age of genocide inflation or concept creep, where the definition of a word expands so broadly it loses its original meaning. To call the July 1983 violence a genocide is inappropriate; if left unchecked, we would indeed be forced to “invent another concept” just to describe much more extreme, systematic atrocities.

Romanians remove corpses of Jewish victims deported from Iași following pogrom

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A NOTE FROM A DINKY-DIE AUSSIE FRIEND

• The end of multiculturalism: To be replaced by monoculturalism, which is a code word for a return to the White Australia policy.
• Abolishing SBS.
• Ending free access to the ABC: Transitioning it to a subscription-based model.
• Banning Islamic migration: Explicitly blocking people moving to Australia from Muslim countries.
• Slashing immigration: Attacking immigration levels as a “catastrophe” and blaming them for the housing crisis.
• Scrapping green energy: Labeling climate change a “hoax,” canceling renewable subsidies, and pushing for nuclear power.
• Targeting transgender rights: Classifying transgender awareness and education in schools as a “dangerous ideology.”
• Scrapping the “Welcome to Country”: Removing it completely from official events.

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Desert Wanderer … with highlighs imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi

It is astonishing that a country like Iran, with a modest military, could defeat the US—which deployed three aircraft carriers to the region, tried to destroy Iran, attempted to decapitate its leadership, and sought to execute a regime change operation, only to fail on all counts and push the global economy to the brink of catastrophe.

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