Wasantha Chandrapala, in Daily Mirror, 12 January 2025
The Tempitiya-Mahaoya road in Ampara has been closed for traffic and pedestrian movement for the past three days due to an injured wild elephant frequenting the road. Residents of the area said the closure of the road had disrupted civilian life.
HEADLINE in DAILY MIRROR, 12 January 2025 = “Elephant closes Tempitiya-Mahaoya road for three days”
PEOPLE INBETWEEN was a collaborative project involving Percy Colin-Thome, Ismeth Raheem and Michael Roberts in the year 1989. Its foundation was that of the CA Lorenz Mss in a cabinet held by the Royal asiatic Society. The RAS was housed then in a section of the Colombo Racecourse. Percy, alas, is no more with us; but his labours were central to the deployment of the documents; while a sabbatical yar of research in 1988/89 enabled me to work on the project alongiside my other tasks. The term “inbetween” in the title was crafted in non-grammatical manner from my aesthetic preference.
The Sarvodaya printing establishment helped us in material ways in producing the book in a situation of political and economic difficulty within the island.
Andrew Fidel Fernando, in ESPNcricinfo, 9 January 2024, where the title reads “Three quick fifties and Asitha’s electric new-ball spell give Sri Lanka consolation win”
Item in Daily Mirror, 10 January 2025 ….with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
Sri Lanka’s star athlete and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Silver Medallist, Susanthika Jayasinghe, has decided to settle in Melbourne, Australia, with her two children. She left Sri Lanka about two months ago and has [told] friends that she is uncertain about returning to the country. Her migration to Australia is aimed at prioritizing the education and future of her children. Susanthika’s contemporary athlete, Asian medallist and Olympian Damayanthi Darsha, also moved to Australia with her family a few years ago.
Don Bradman Memorabilia in Adelaide’s Sri Lankan Realms … https://thuppahis.com › 2024/06/06 › don-bradman-me…
6 June 2024 — This Thuppahi post is a potpourri of Memorabilia around the Persona of Sir Donald Bradman …. with an ink-sketch of Don Bradman by Douglas Davies
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Don Bradman at Cricket in Ceylon in 1930 …. Yes, 1930…. https://thuppahis.com › 2023/03/06 › don-bradman-at-…
6 Mar 2023 — On 3 April 1930, at Colombo Cricket Club, Donald Bradman played his first game of cricket outside Australia. He treated the crowd to plenty of shots …
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Renuka Sadanandan, whose original title runs thus: “Karen Roberts Writing. Her Way of Staying Close” **
Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara
It was probably the single most frightening thing that happened to her. Having to walk alone from the advertising agency in Kollupitiya where she worked part-time to her home in Dehiwela, through the streets aflame. Those terrible scenes stayed imprinted in her mind though it was many years before she would think of putting them down.
“On twenty-third of July 1983, the day the world went mad, was how Karen Roberts would later write about the ethnic violence in her book ‘July’. Her world changed that day, she says sombrely. “Until then my life was great…..my only concern was what to wear on Saturday night!” Her father was abroad, her mother had to fetch her younger sister home from school and her brother was stuck somewhere and the 17-year-old Karen had to fend for herself amidst the mayhem and madness that saw the familiar Colombo landscape turn into killing streets.
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Madushka Balasuriya in ESPN … with this title “Perera ton gives Sri Lanka consolation win”
New Zealand came close in the 219-run chase, but Sri Lanka did enough to get a consolation win
Kusal Perera soaks it in after hitting Sri Lanka’s fastest T20I century of all time • MARTY MELVILLE/AFP via Getty Images
Sri Lanka 218 for 5 (Perera 101, Asalanka 46) beat New Zealand 211 for 7 (Ravindra 69, Asalanka 3-50, Hasaranga 2-38) by 7 runs
In the end, Sri Lanka did enough. That’s not something you’d expect to say about a team that had racked up 218 runs in their first innings, but it speaks towards just how well New Zealand had set about their chase for most of the innings. It was a victory set up largely by Kusal Perera‘s maiden T20I ton, the fastest ever by a Sri Lankan, coming off just 44 deliveries.
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