Lincoln Clement Roshan Abeysinghe (b. 1963) is described in Wikipedia as a marketing professional and a current cricket commentator. It is in the latter role that he is best known and we are lucky to have collection of his bests “SHOTS” — so to speak — in and around cricket made available to us in FACEBOOK …. with one embellishment of him taking to the streets in protest recently.
with Sunil Gavaskar in commentary box
VISIT https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/were-running-out-of-time-former-sri-lanka-cricketer-roshan-mahanama-to-ndtv-2870494 WHERE THE HEADLINE READS “We’re Running Out Of Time”: Former Sri Lanka Cricketer Roshan Mahanama To NDTV”
Speaking to NDTV, former cricketer Roshan Mahanama said the leaders are to be blamed for Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis, and that there is a need for a change.
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Sugath Kulatunga …presenting a NOTE in Facebook early in April 2022
The Daily Mirror of today produces a report of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) [presented] in the third week of March that detailed everything that went wrong in the country’s renewable energy sector. A few excerpts from the report which has been made to the Auditor General are given below.
“Although 400 MW of renewable energy projects were scheduled to be constructed between 2015 and 2020, only the 100 MW Mannar wind power plant was completed in 2021 and commenced generating electricity. The Construction of the Kerawalapitiya LNG Power Plant commenced a year later to the proposed date. All other power plant projects haven’t even been tendered on schedule.”
Made available by Logan Thurairatnam …. with Kumar Kirinde’s technical aid
A farmer — the backbone of the Peninsula and its people
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An Internationalist in the Anzac Realm** …………….has informed Thuppahi that “the US congress passed a bill last year that approved a half a billion US dollars to fund a global anti China media campaign which includes training hundreds of journalists to plant anti-china stories in every media outlet in every country the US can influence. So we can expect such articles by the ton every 2 seconds.”
This Note was in response to Thuppahi’s Query about this item (one sent to me by a Lankan friend): viz https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-turns-its-back-on-sri-lanka-amid-massive-economic-crisis-report-2837606Inbox
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When Mervyn de Silva passed away, many tributes were paid to his contribution to critical writing, to journalism, to literature and the arts, to his scholarly weekly radio commentaries on world affairs, his lone editorship of the Lanka Guardian and the stimulation he provided to popular discussion by his constant and thoughtful, intellectual engagement with whatever was current in the public debate.
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Gaya … at http://isrilankan.com/ …on 6 March 2021
Siva is an artist, survivor, citizen and a human most extraordinary. His work is a testimony to how the human mind with artistic expression can transcend the violence of war, the other myriad constraints and negotiations that await the unsuspecting human and the navigation of pain and moving beyond.
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I: An Appreciation from Patrick Ranasinghe, 1 February 2022 …. Aubrey Collette 1920 -1992
Remember the cartoons of the mid to late 50’s and early 60’s. The issues he touched on are more relevant than ever now.
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A VERITE RESEARCH BULLETIN
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As we approach the end of the year, there is much to look back on and reflect upon. I am glad to share with you some of the highlights of the recent month in this Verité Bulletin.
We have long felt that democracy is not meaningful when citizens are not critically cognizant of the information in relation to public finance. This is why Verité Research strategically expanded its work on Public Finance. The platform that we built, PublicFinance.lk, is probably the pre-eminent locus for information and analysis on the state of Sri Lanka’s public finance.
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Nivedita Menon, in Colombo Telegraph, 22 January 2021, where the title is “Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade”
This is my Mala.
Every person touched by her friendship felt this sense of unique connection to Mala. To receive the gift of her attention was to forever feel the tug of a thread that attached you to a part of her heart. She would remember you at some point or the other even if you were not constantly in touch, with that fine-tuned sensitivity that brought to you the exact poem or thought or photograph or experience that linked the two of you.
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thuppahi
