A Thuppahi Journey
Panoramic view of Galle Face Colombo, Sri Lanka around 1880s-1900, looking south from Galle Road (later this path became the Galle Road), ClubHouse & Galleface Hotel (far right) showing in the background……… Lankapura …. https://lankapura.com/2011/04/panoramic-view-galle-face-green-colombo/
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Item in Daily Mirror in Sri Lanka, 6 March 2025, entitled “Neyara Weerawansa triumphs in Australia”
Rising Sri Lankan tennis star Neyara Weerawansa has made an impressive mark in Australia by clinching the RSY Club Championship title in the Women’s Category.
ave won my first tournament here in Australia. It was a great experience competing at the RSY Club Championship, and I look forward to more opportunities to challenge myself and grow as a player,” said Neyara after her victory.
Gp Capt Kumar Kirinde (Retd) …. with Memo to his Retiree Colleagues in the Sri Lankan Armed Services
Dear RAFOA member, As I see, the way strategic matters are taking shape in our beloved Sri Lanka, the Chinese factor has come to stay in relation to the three aspects to be taken care for the progress of a nation-state i.e. political, economic and social development. Therefore, I strongly feel that we all need to have an idea of how China came to be a world power. Accordingly attached is a brief on Imperial China, the first of a series of eDocs compiled on China covering its journey from 221 BC to the present day.
Charles Schokman’s Discovery of Amazing Facts conveyed in an Email entitled “A Bit of Ceylon History”
Academia.edu – Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers …. https://www.academia.edu
Occupation: Russian Rule in South-eastern Ukraine
by David G Lewis, 2025
Improving Forest-Based Livelihoods through Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Planning
by Pratima Shrestha
2014 • Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
The Pluralism of Restorative Justice in Greater China: an Introduction
by John Braithwaite, Asian Journal of Criminology
“The Serendipity of Anthropological Practice,” by Francisco Martínez
2010, The Journal of Asian Studies
Peirce, Pragmatism, and the Logic of Scripture,” by Peter W . Ochs, 1998
Ethnicity and Violence in Sri Lanka: An Ethnohistorical Narrative
By Premakumara de Silva, 2019, The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity
Abstract: The ethnicity and violence in Sri Lanka have many root causes and consequences that are closely interconnected. Given the nature and the complexity of root causes and consequences of these highly contested concepts, it should not be treated as a part of linear historical processes where one event led to another. Sri Lanka presents case of how intersecting not only ethnicity and violence but also religion, caste, class, linguistic, and cultural mosaics have been and might be billeted within the borders of a nation-state. However, state building in Sri Lanka has been riddled with paradoxes. The curious notion of numerically dominant ethnic group, Sinhala manifesting a “minority complex” or anxieties about minority groups, Tamil and Muslims, is evident in the rise of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism during the nineteenth and the twentieth century of the country. Since state building has often meant ……….
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An EDITORIAL NOTE, 27 February 2025
Items within this site have drawn over 780 hits each day of this week, ranging from 986 on Wednesday 26th February to 000 on the Monday 24th…… A fair sprinkling of visitors looked at biographical tales honing in on individuals — in some cases on what we call “Vales”. Readers may derive insights from a listing of these items: …. after all, friends matter and many famous personalities evoke tales of achievement that inspire.
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A NOTE from the THUPPAHIYAA, 25 February 2025
This email memo from a ‘middle class’ Sri Lankan born before World War Two and nurtured in an elite college whci addresses mates nourished in the same schools and planter/military circles is of considerable socio-political significance. Its implications are all the stronger because the “Letter” is An Epitaph for Richard Hermon, an Extraordinary and Rambanctious Sri Lankan of the Old School.
AN EMAIL MEMO from Retd Major Lalin Fernando to a Circle of Ceylonese Pals, 23 February 2025
Dickie was in Alison, a bit junior to me. His cousins Duncan and Tyrone were there too Dickie played Rugby with me in the 2nd XV v SPC (1955) on their grounds when he was 14 or less. There were no age groups then. The Peterites average age would have been around 19. It included their Cricket captain Ken (20 yrs old) but not Russel Duckworth. Dont know if Lakshman Serasinghe too played. Our oldest would have been 16 or so. The first XV match was played before our match as the seniors wanted to watch the CR v CH match. It left us brats to the after the match mercies of the Bamba crowd!
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Michael Roberts
The THUPPAHI Web-Site has a wide range of biographical tales presented over the years. The items listed below are among those that attracted a few hits yesterday. In marking this result, I seek to remind readers of personnel who have contibuted towards our island’s varied history.
https://thuppahis.com/2020/09/30/the-joseph-family-of-british-ceylon-service-to-mankind
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An Email NOTE from Ajit Varuna-Candappa sent to his Royal College classmates, mid-February 2024
https://youtu.be/ZUbBU0OqCgE?
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Niruni de Mel in The Island, 16 February 2024 … where the title runs thus: “Scammed and Stranded: The Dark Side of Sri Lanka’s Migration Industry”
A fisherman from the quiet town of Mannar sold his mother’s, sisters’, and sister-in-law’s jewelry and, with a loan from his brother, paid a migration agent Rs. 12.8 million for a Canadian visa. Months later, he discovered the agent had vanished, leaving his family in crippling debt and his dreams in ruins. His story is not unique. Across Sri Lanka, countless desperate individuals fall prey to fraudulent migration schemes, losing their life savings in the process.
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