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Vanni Hope keeps Batting for the Underprivileged
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Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga in Colour with Chandra Dasswatte
A Christmas special! We are so happy to be able to share with you this special vlog that we’ve been wanting to create for oh so long! This is one of Sri Lankas best kept secrets and its something we want to share with travelers who have a keen interest in local architecture and history. it was an absolute honour to have Channa Dasswatte share some amazing insight into the life & work of Geoffrey Bawa & his Lunuganga Estate. Hope you guys enjoy this vlog as much as we did making. Wishing you all a very happy Holidays!
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Tutu: A Moral Pillar in Our Troubled Times
Basil Fernando, in Groundviews, 29 December 2021, where the title reads “Desmond Tutu: The Man who revived the Moral Universe”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu who passed away this week will be counted among the great human beings who contributed to the political transformation of his own country and a person who revolutionised the idea of achieving equality under the most difficult of circumstances.
Cape Town, South Africa – October 6, 2011: The Arch Bishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at his official book launch , St George’s Cathedral 2011
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An Indian Scholar’s Griefstricken VALE for Malathi De Alwis
Nivedita Menon, in Colombo Telegraph, 22 January 2021, where the title is “Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade”
This is my Mala.
Every person touched by her friendship felt this sense of unique connection to Mala. To receive the gift of her attention was to forever feel the tug of a thread that attached you to a part of her heart. She would remember you at some point or the other even if you were not constantly in touch, with that fine-tuned sensitivity that brought to you the exact poem or thought or photograph or experience that linked the two of you.
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Searching Review of Sri Lanka’s Economic Performance, 1980s-2019 from Howard Nicholas
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Dr. Howard Nicholas joins @HydePark on Ada Derana 24 with Indeewari Amuwatte
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Along a Winding Russian Road
Tony Donaldson, …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
In 1926, the Russian poet, singer, composer, and cabaret artist Alexander Vertinsky recorded the song Dorogoi dlinnoyu (Дорогой длинною) which may be rendered as “Along a winding road” or “By the long road.” Vertinsky was born in the Ukraine in 1889 and died in St. Petersburg in 1957.
Alexander Vertinsky
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Ganging Up against China in France and Elsewhere
Global Times Item, 10 December 2021, where the title runs thus “French media pushes anti-China narrative in a monolithic block, but at least one man is fighting for objective views”… with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
“Bursting alliance”
Photo: Zheng Ruolin, a senior Chinese media professional and European studies expert, talks with Maxime Vivas, French writer and journalistFiled under accountability, american imperialism, authoritarian regimes, China and Chinese influences, cultural transmission, democratic measures, discrimination, disparagement, education, historical interpretation, life stories, news fabrication, politIcal discourse, power politics, press freedom & censorship, propaganda, self-reflexivity, slanted reportage, the imaginary and the real, truth as casualty of war, unusual people, world events & processes, zealotry
A Critical Assessment of the Sri Lankan Government’s Budget
Chandrasena Maliyadde, in DailyFT, 21 December 2021 …. where the title is ” The Budget: As I See it” &&&
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A Medico stirs the Graduand Law Students of Colombo University
Dr. Sarath Gamani De Silva’s Motivational speech to the law graduates of the University of Colombo **
The Venerable Chancellor, Madam Vice Chancellor, the Dean, Faculty of Law and the Deans of other Faculties, Professors, Lecturers and other tutorial staff, University officials, the new graduates and their parents.
Good morning, Ladies and gentlemen, Let me first thank the Madam Vice Chancellor for inviting me to make this presentation.
I whole heartedly congratulate the new graduates for completing your tertiary education and entering the society as productive citizens of the motherland. Notwithstanding your superior academic capabilities, it is indeed an achievement to have completed your tertiary education at troubled times like these, when education in general had come to a virtual standstill for the majority of the younger generation. I have no doubt that your graduation is long overdue for no fault of yours. The very problems and delays in our system of education make you waste much of your childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. The frustration of such delays, compounded by the COVID pandemic, must weigh heavily on your attitude to life. Most of you I understand will become practising lawyers in courts of law while others may continue in allied fields. Some of you may proceed to engage in politics, a field where many past luminaries in your profession have left an indelible footprint.
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Sri Lanka’s Wildcats: In the Depths of the Jungle
Uditha Devapriya, in The Island, 18 December 2021, …. Review of Phantoms of the Night: Wildcats of Sri Lanka, by Thilak Jayaratne, Janaka Gallangoda, Nadika Hapuarachchi, and Madura de Silva ….. Chaya Publishers, 2022,… 160 pp…. with highlighting imposed by the Editor, Thuppahi.
The leopard is perhaps the most photographed animal in Sri Lanka. Slinking through grassy terrains and up sprawling trees, it has acquired a life of its own. Elusive and enigmatic, it tends to avoid human contact, preferring to lay low. This only belies its reputation as one the country’s most fearsome hunters, the undisputed elite among its predators. Indeed, the number of photographs and exhibitions organised every other year attest to its place in our collective consciousness. Although the lion has become the definitive symbol of the country, it is the leopard which has come to epitomise our forests and our parks.
