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December 20, 2024 · 4:04 pm

UN Agencies That Deployed False Death Figures re Eelam War

Palitha Senanayake, in The Island, 20 December 2024 …… ‘UN fudged Lankan casualty figures’ – Lord Naseby

The United Nations Human Rights Council at its 57th session adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Project on Sri Lanka Accountability by one year. Babu Ram Pant, Deputy Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty International, has commented extensively on this resolution.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) arrives at a hotel for a joint press conference with Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollagama in Kandy on May 23, 2009, after Ban visited Menik Farm camp, home to thousands of civilians who fled the war zone. UN chief Ban Ki-moon came face-to-face with the despair of Sri Lanka’s war-hit civilians as he toured the main refugee camp and flew over the devastated war zone. AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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December 19, 2024 · 3:37 pm

Beyond Imagination – Chandra Schaffter’s Life of Service

Ravi RUDRA has composed an extensive web-item describing Chandra Schaffter’s services to Sri Lanka,  S. Thomas College, cricket, hockey, the Tamil Union CC’, insurance services in the island and humakind in general. The account includes photographs and is so extensive that it is best presented in segments. THIS is the first instalment. As this segment includes heaps of photographs, it will take me time to insert all of them…. so the present version is incomplete .…. Editor, TPS 

Compilation by Ravi RUDRA …. with this title ‘The Phenomenal Journey of Mr. CHANDRA SCHAFFTER 94* Story of Vision, Resilience, Disappointments and Success” …. 1 December 2024 

Mr. Chandra Thomas Adolphus Schaffter (born 3 April 1930) ‘The Father of Sri Lanka Insurance & Much, Much More’

“If you cannot do something for those who work for you, but you seek to get the best out of them and not worry about them, then, I don’t think life is worth living. What I am today, I owe it first to God and then to my School”– Chandra Schaffter

 Legendary Thomian (Jan 1937–March 1950)

“I was very fortunate to attend S. Thomas’ College because I had a good education and a good foundation. I lost my mother when I was only 3 and my father when I was 11, so I never had real parental guidance in that sense.But my school masters, especially in my early years, and some of my relatives were very helpful in making me find my way around.

S. Thomas’ was a great place to be in, as you learnt a lot of good values which you don’t see in the outside world. This up-bringing has stood me and many Thomians in good stead.”– Chandra Schaffter

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December 15, 2024 · 2:03 pm

Vale = An Appreciation of Professor Padmasiri De Silva

Revd Mahinda Deegalle from London, in The Island 15 December 2024

The year 2024 is rapidly drawing to a close. This year marks the personal losses of many helpful academics, monks, family members, and friends. I place this brief note of appreciation here to pay tribute to the late Professor Padmasiri de Silva (1933–2024), one of my teachers at the University of Peradeniya in the 1980s, who was just about to celebrate his 92nd birthday on January 18, 2025 with the publication of his most recent contribution The Moral Psychology of Buddhism, which is currently under preparation for publication posthumously in Melbourne.

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December 14, 2024 · 12:14 am

Sri Lanka’s Tea Plantation Industry As Featured in Thuppahi aka TPS

A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://thuppahis.com/2017/02/18/james-taylor-and-the-ceylon-tea-industry/

https://thuppahis.com//2017/02/21/the-tea-business-in-ceylon-and-the-life-and-times-of-tony-peries/

https://thuppahis.com/2017/07/18/ceylon-tea-and-its-surrounds-richard-simons-tour-de-force/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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December 13, 2024 · 7:01 pm

The Murrays: Among the Pioneer Planters in British Ceylon

TPS presents here an item which bore the original title “The Scotts, The Murrays And The Polkes – Scions Of Pioneer Planters’ In Ceylon” (2020)


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Encylopaedia of Ceylon – Ceylon Tea Industry Souvenir 196

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December 13, 2024 · 1:03 am

Three Promising Young Tamils in Present Sri Lankan U19 Squad

Information from Prakash Schaffter of Janashakthi Insurance in response to my Request, December 2020 ….. Editor, Thuppahi

Sharujan Shanmuganathan, born on April 25, 2006, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is a promising left-handed wicketkeeper-batsman representing the Sri Lanka Under-19 cricket team. He gained early recognition for his elegant stroke play, drawing comparisons to former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara. At just five years old, during a 2011 Test match between Sri Lanka and Australia, Shanmuganathan was spotted playing a graceful cover drive, earning him the nickname “Little Sanga” from commentator Tony Greig.

Shanmuganathan honed his cricket skills at St. Benedict’s College, Kotahena, and further developed his talent under the guidance of coach Nelson Mendis at the CCC School of Cricket. He showcased his potential by scoring 1,000 runs in the U19 Division One Interschools Two-Day Cricket Tournament for the 2022/23 season.

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December 12, 2024 · 11:49 pm

Seeking Ethnic Reconciliation Through Commemoration of the Dead-in-War

Capt Prasanna Rajaratne, SLN … in DAILY FT, 6 December 2024, ….. where the title reads “National security only through national harmony“
They may still feel trapped in the same plight, and unless that perception is acknowledged, addressed, and their aspirations realised, the resurgence of dissent is not merely possible but inevitable

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December 11, 2024 · 11:02 pm

T10 League Cricket at Pallekele, Kandy …. Volaarey! Cantaarey!!

OFFICIAL DIGITAL PRESENTATION ..…. But no spot in ESPNCRICINFO

The league has been organized by Sri Lanka Cricket in partnership with the Abu Dhabi T10 league and is planned to start in December 2024. The matches will be 10-overs-a-side; and the duration of each match will be approximately 90 minutes. The tournament will follow a round-robin format.

The matches at Pallekelle off Kandy are being telecast live and it was by pure chance that at night on Wednesday 11 December I caught the first innings of the Jaffna Titans vs Hambantota Tigers skippered by Dasun Shanaka and Charitha Asalanka respectively. Several of the players did not carry familiarity in my lexicon; but “Kusal Perera,’’ “Isuru Udana’’ and “Pretorius” did ring bells.

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December 11, 2024 · 2:07 pm

Targetted — By Richard Woolf’s Slashing You-Tube Visuals

ITEMS sent to me by my old Aloysian mate Sarri Junaid in Canada…

Trump’s Failed War on China ….

How long will Trump last

Europe is An Economic Basket-case

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December 10, 2024 · 7:52 pm

A Thrilling Last Over Victory for South Australia

Andrew McGlashan, in ESPNcricinfo, 10 December 2024

After Agar’s yorker on the last ball was jammed out by Meredith, he thought he hadn’t seized the moment and that it would be a draw.

“It went from how have we managed to lose this to how have we won this?” Approaching 24 hours on from one of the most dramatic Sheffield Shield finishes of all time, South Australia quick bowler Wes Agar was still trying to make sense of the scenes that unfolded in Hobart on Monday evening when No. 11 Riley Meredith was run out off the last ball.
“I just remember seeing the ball getting thrown in and I see Riley running out of the corner of my eye,” Agar told ESPNcricinfo. “I stopped for a minute and thought, ‘what’s happened?’

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