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The Political Agenda behind Woolf’s Village in the Jungle
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, in The Island, 26 January 2016, where the title is “The Political Agenda behind the Literary Work”… http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=139247
Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) is an important figure in international relations and imperial history but he was also a writer. The literary genius of his wife Virginia (neé Stephen) overshadowed him. This is partly due to lack of recognition of Woolf’s own novel, The Village in the Jungle which is shaped around a marginalised group of jungle dwellers in Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The Village in the Jungle (1913) ranks on par with E M Forster’s Passage to India and George Orwell’s Burmese Days but predates both these works; eleven years before Passage to India (1924) and twenty years before Burmese Days (1934).
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Open Ports! The Boat People Australia wants
A Flourishing Bibliographical Tree: Tamil Migration, Asylum-Seekers and Australia
Alex Kuhendrarajah of Merak notoriety –courtesy of Australian courtesy of aus.com.au Continue reading
July 1, 2015 · 10:02 am
A World First in Ecological Care: Mangroves of Sri Lanka rendered a Protected Habitat
Sri Lanka first nation to protect all mangrove forests”
Sri Lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests. A scheme backed by the government will include alternative job training, replanting projects and microloans. Mangroves are considered to be one of the world’s most at-risk habitats, with more than half being lost or destroyed in the past century. Conservationists hope other mangrove-rich nations will follow suit and adopt a similar protection model. Commenting on the agreement, Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena said: “It is the responsibility and the necessity of all government institutions, private institutions, non-government organisations, researchers, intelligentsia and civil community to be united to protect the mangrove ecosystem.”
The Sri Lankan government is a joint partner overseeing the measures, alongside global NGO Seacology, and Sri Lanka-based Sudeesa, which was formerly known as the Small Fishers Federation of Lanka. Seacology executive director Duane Silverstein said the pioneering framework had “extreme importance as a model” that could be used throughout the world. Continue reading
Christina of Bunnik Tours in Raptures over Lanka’s Sights and Sites
Christina Pfeiffer, 18 December 2014
Women sashay past, saris fluttering and hips swaying rhythmically to the thumping drums. The high-pitched whining of a wind instrument draws me like the call of the Pied Piper. I’m swept along by the crowd of spiritual devotees circling a massive white stupa at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka’s Cultural Triangle. The region, in the centre of the island, was the seat of two powerful kingdoms, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa. It’s the place to visit for statues, relics, ruins and to soak up Sri Lanka’s days of glory. There’s an air of mystery around the Cultural Triangle and although more than 2000 years have passed, I can still feel the seductive tug of power from a long-gone kingdom that was once great.
Smiles here there and everywhere–Pic by Pfeiffer Continue reading
Verbal Assault, Bouncer Assault and Hypocrisy in the Green Fields of Cricket
Mark Reason in STUFF, 8 December 2014 – http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/63759297/Reason-Hughes-death-highlights-crickets-hypocrisy where the title is “Phillip Hughes death highlights cricket’s hypocrisy”
The best way for cricket to respect the sad death of Phillip Hughes may be not a minute’s silence, but a lifetime’s silence. By all accounts Hughes was a quiet country lad, who did not brag. On the day of Hughes’ funeral, cricket’s sledgers, and that includes Australian captain Michael Clarke, may like to reflect on the vile abuse that they have used to ram home bowling that often bordered on assault.
Michael Clarke unleashed an expletive sledge at Jimmy Anderson before Australia wrapped up the first Test.
A friend dropped me a line the other day to say how he was sickened by the hypocrisy swirling around cricket. An international sportsman himself in hockey and one of New Zealand’s great all-rounder achievers, Brian Turner wrote of how bowlers tried to hit him and of the puerile vitriol that accompanied it. It was bad then, it is worse now. Continue reading
An Arsehole of a Motor Cyclist !!
AND WHAT YOU NEED TO MEET THIS CHALLENGE Continue reading
October 26, 2014 · 2:43 am
Exotic Birds flying across the world … on the ‘wings’ of internet addicts
………. long live the chain mailers … and Felix Ng
Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock
King of Saxony Bird-of-Paradise Continue reading
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The Osama Bin Laden Killing in Graphic Detail. An American Way of Telling
Larry Pickering: “Obama avoids paying his Bin Laden Bill,” 20 October 2014, at http://pickeringpost.com/story/obama-avoids-paying-his-bin-laden-bill/3971A
Alternative Title: “Who Shot Osama?” — “WE ALL did it” says the Navy Seal Shooter
There is little sympathy for the Pakistani who fingered Osama Bin Laden in return for a $US25 million bounty. He still sits rotting in a Pakistani jail with no hope of ever seeing day light, let alone his reward. Meanwhile the US Administration continues to slip billions in foreign aid into the voluminous pockets of recently elected President Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and their corrupt Administration.
US Navy SEALs risked their lives intruding on Pakistan’s sovereign territory in the dead of night to take out the West’s most wanted man and within the shadow of a Pakistani military base. Needless to say the Navy SEALs were not entitled to overtime rates. Continue reading
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