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The Gunmen and the Imran Khan Targets
Filed under life stories, performance, photography, power politics, terrorism, the imaginary and the real, trauma
Violent Attack on Imran Khan’s Party Rally
Item in Washington Post
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan addresses supporters at a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, on April 21. He was forced from office by a parliamentary vote of no confidence on April 10. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
Sri Lanka down Afghanistan in T20 Match at Brisbane
Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPNcrcinfo, 1 November 2022, where the title reads thus “Hasaranga, Dhananjaya, Kumara keep Sri Lanka’s campaign alive”
Sri Lanka kept a leash on Afghanistan’s innings, making frequent breakthroughs before partnerships could truly blossom, holding the run-rate in check. Led by Wanindu Hasaranga, whose outstanding 3 for 13 was most responsible for hindering the opposition, Sri Lanka conceded only 144 or 8 on a decent batting track.
Sigiriya Rock Fortress: Some References & Unusual Photographs
This presentation is a pot pourri …. commencing with a striking photograph of those who provided the labour for restoration work in the British era …. proceeding to references for items within Thuppahi and then moving to present some more photographs (quite striking these) of restoration work in the past that were unearthed by Raja De Silva and then providing some amateur shots associated with one Michael Roberts. The first photograph in this excursion into our island’s past has been selected consciously to mark and honour the sweating labour that went into the tasks of restoring access to the ruins and its magnificent mementoes. This labout, it is evident,was mostly Indian Tamil …. drawn perhaps from the same sources as those that provided labour for the coffee, tea, rubber and coconut plantations that were being developed then in the late 19th century. This is buta tiny memento marking their work ….and placing them alongside the British and Sri Lankan administrators who organised the tasks of archaelogical preservation.
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Sunak: A Searching Appraisal of The Man & His ‘Field of Play’
Michael Patrick O’Leary, in his website where the title reads thus “Sunak as Prime Minister”
“A bright and decent man with bad ideas.” The Economist.
Shehan Karunatilaka in Earlier ‘Incarnations’ in Thuppahi Circles
Shehan Karunatilaka on the ball in “Chinaman” .…… https://thuppahis.com › 2011/05/26 › shehan-karunatila…
26 May 2011 — It consists of one sentence: “If you’ve never seen a cricket match; if you have and it has made you snore; if you can’t understand why anyone
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“Shehan Karunatilaka snaffles a bag of wickets,” …. https://thuppahis.com/2012/01/22/shehan-karunatilaka-snaffles-a-bag-of-wickets/
22 Jan 2012 — NEW DELHI, January 22: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the US$ 50,000 (LKR 5.68 million) DSC prize for South Asian Literature …
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Ceylonese Precursors ‘anticipating’ Sunak’s Ascent to the Top in Britain
Rifat Halim, whose preferred title is “Sunak’s Path to No. 10 may have begun in Ceylon” Acres of newsprint have been devoted to Rishi Sunak’s rise. He is said to be the first Asian to occupy No. 10 Downing Street. This is not correct. Asia begins with the Tigris river. Boris Johnson’s great grandfather was a Turkish politician. He should have been called Boris Kemal, as Johnson is the maiden name of his great grandmother. 
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Working on the Book PEOPLE INBETWEEN
Michael Roberts
The ‘discovery’ of the Lorenz Cabinet in the Royal Asiatic Society in the 1980s led me to combine with Percy Colin-Thome[1] and Ismeth Raheem in working up this material into a four-volume book.[2] The first book in this projected series was drafted by me and came out in 1989 courtesy of Sarvodaya Publishing Services (within the limitations of book production in that period).[3] This book has been out of print for quite a while. Though the opening segment of the book, decoding the famous Sinhala story about the first sight of the Portuguese on their shores, a tale that that has been passed down over the centuries, was presented to the world way back in time as an article,[4] the rest of People Inbetween – dealing with (a) British racial prejudices and practices; (b) the process of Westernization, competition and jostling among the emerging middle class families and (c) the introduction of census data collection by the modernizing government and the implications thereof, has not seen wider circulation (though some items in Thuppahi in 2022 have focused on some of these activities – see Appendix A).
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Mrs. Rushira Kulasingham breaks New Ground as Principal of Jaffna College
DBS Jeyaraj, in his website = https://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/80044?fbclid=IwAR2GGyIjtQCq6lqAwL_R4u87OXaFqx3FWNKwq50r5IxGEpv7xsbnDhicZ5A
The Jaffna College Alumni Association wishes to announce to the alumni across the world that the Board of Directors of Jaffna College have appointed Mrs. Rushira Kulasingham as the Principal of Jaffna College with effect from the 1st of January 2023.
Mrs. Rushira Kulasingham
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The Kaffir in Sri Lanka: A Partial Bibliography from Thuppahi
Michael Roberts
The first two photographs provide just a glimpse of their ‘markings’; while the map composed I think by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya indicates the long history of African migratory flows (sometimes as slaves) to Asian lands.
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