October 25, 2024 · 12:24 pm

Alongside Turtles at Unawatuna Beach in Southern Lanka

Michael Roberts

The Thuppahi item on the turtle nursey at Rekawa along the southern coast of Sri Lanka …… https://thuppahis.com/2024/10/24/the-turtle-nursery-at-rekawa-in-southern-sri-lanka/#more-85722 …… has revived two inspiring ‘moments’ when I had ‘brushes’ with a turtle. Both indelible experiences which are etched in my mind’s pictorial eye took place at the Unawatuna beach about four miles east of Galle town – a popular tourist beach on the other side of the Buona Vista peninsula that constitutes the eastern ‘front’ of Galle harbour.

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October 24, 2024 · 6:35 pm

Sri Lankans Smother Windies Comfortably in ODI at Pallekelle

Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPNcricinfo, 23 October 2024, where the title reads “Hasaranga and Theekshana spin West Indies out and seal Sri Lanka series win”

Rutherford and Motie put on a WI record ninth-wicket stand but it was in vain.

Theekshana celebrates …

 

 

 

 

Mote and Alzarri Joseph struck once apiece inside the powerplay. Aside from these stretches of dominance though, Sri Lanka ran away with the game.

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October 24, 2024 · 12:48 am

The Turtle ‘Nursery’ at Rekawa in Southern Sri Lanka

 Risidra Mendis, in Ceylon Today, 19 October 2024  where the title runs thus: “A world without turtles is a world less beautiful” 

Far from the hustle and bustle of city life and nestled along the Southern Coast of Sri Lanka is a place of natural beauty and tranquility. The clear blue water and the sounds of the waves, the breathtaking sunrise and the unforgettable sunset over the Indian ocean. This is the Rekawa beach where nature can be experienced at its best.

 

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October 22, 2024 · 8:26 pm

Significant New Strands in American Politics at the Grass-roots Level?

‘Yesteryear’ — A Sri Lankan Migrant

A = Support for Palestine in Raleigh North Carolina City Council ... when North Carolina is classed as a ‘conservative’ state!

Another articulate and brave young lady who reflects the changing face in the multi-ethnic urban zones of America with the younger demographic more independent, rebellious and skilled in the art of critical thinking.

https://www.tiktok.com/@nancyr0033/video/7381072938595781919?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

Raleigh City, North Carolina ……… Population in 2023: 482,000

Population demographics by race:

White – 55.5%

Black or African American – 28.1%

Hispanic or Latino – 11.6%

Asian & Other – 4.5%

Foreign born persons – 13%

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Also worth listening to the anguished voice of this Jewish American lady…. Elena Stein is the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor: https://youtube.com/shorts/–lF7bOLEs8?si=Np7bfs1XQM8gEZBb…..Stop arming Israel and stop profiting from genocide

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October 22, 2024 · 1:37 pm

The Epitome of “EVIL” … Today’s Soulmates with Hitler

Brian Victoria

In an increasingly secular world, calling someone or something “evil” will seem to many as an anachronistic label, conjuring up as it does a reddish figure featuring a fiendish face and horns, pitchfork in hand, with wings and a tail. A truly dreadful and fearsome sight indeed!

Christians have traditionally viewed evil as a rebellion against God, embodied in the figure of “Satan” (aka Devil). Satan was identified as the cause of all suffering in the world.  Further, it was Satan’s fall from Heaven that illustrated the cosmic battle between good (God) and evil (Satan). As such, Satan existed as a malevolent force outside of ourselves, constantly attempting to entice us to accede to his wicked ways.

By comparison, in contemporary thought, evil is examined through psychological, social, and cultural lenses. Thus, evil can arise from one’s own psychological disorders, group dynamics or the sociopolitical/socioeconomic systems under which we live. No longer is it seen as a metaphysical or malevolent moral force lying outside of ourselves.

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October 22, 2024 · 12:48 pm

British Satire at its Most Fertile Ferment

Edward Tew, in The Sunday Times, 7 July 2024,where the title runs this: “Farewell to the Tory clown show, a true satirist’s dream”

For the last six years I’ve been engaged in a secret love affair with Jacob Rees-Mogg. This may be news to him, considering we’ve never met, but I’ve fantasised about him being given a sponge bath by his nanny, pushing women and children off the Titanic on his way to a lifeboat, as an object on Antiques Roadshow and even poking his “plonker” through a suet pudding for his premium OnlyFans customers. I’m not a pervert, I’m a satirist.

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October 21, 2024 · 1:33 pm

Appreciating Beena Sarwar’s Documentary on Sri Lanka’s Parlous Situation

AUTHOR unknown –– An Item sent by  Nandi Jasentuliyana — Ex-Richmond College and long resident in USA

This documentary is by Beena Sarwar….. https://www.dawn.com/news/1864914

“There is a fine line between order and chaos. Its tenuous separation lies at the heart of the grand cycle of oppositional linkages in myth and history, in which fate, humans and nature seek a way out of the turbulence to which they may well have themselves contributed.

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October 20, 2024 · 4:13 pm

Burning Issues for the NPP Economic Team

Darshanie Ratnawalli, in The Island, October 2024 ... where the title reads ”The recent IMF visit and the new ‘economic team’

A new economic team, representing SL has gone into a meeting with the IMF. A President Media Division release dated October 2, 2024, says that the IMF visit was to hold discussions on the progress of the IMF programme and the release of the fourth tranche and that the following “economic team” has been appointed by the new government for discussions with the IMF.

This is the team –Anil Jayantha, Chair of the NPP Economic Policy Council & Senior Advisor to the President on Economic Affairs & Finance, Duminda Hulangamuwa, Senior Advisor to the President, Sunil Handunnetti, JVP Politician, Seetha Bandara Ranathunga, Sunil Gamage, Nandasiri Keembiyahetti, O. G. Dayaratne Banda and Amarasena Athukorala.

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October 20, 2024 · 3:29 pm

The Question Mark — It’s Intriguing History

Wikipedia

The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism[1]) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.

History =  In the fifth century, Syriac Bible manuscripts used question markers, according to a 2011 theory by manuscript specialist Chip Coakley: he believes the zagwa elaya (“upper pair”), a vertical double dot over a word at the start of a sentence, indicates that the sentence is a question.[2][3]

8th century punctus interrogativus from the Godescalc Evangelistary. (BnF NAL 1203, f. 6v.)

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October 20, 2024 · 11:36 am

Vale Kumar David — Scholar, Critic and Activist

Rajan Philips, in Colombo Telegraph, 19 October 2024, where the title reads thus = ”Kumar David: An Accomplished Academic & A Broadminded Marxist”  … with highlights imposed by the Editor, Thuppahi

Professor Kumar David (1941-2024)

One by one the lights go out. In a span of seven months, Sri Lanka’s Engineering fraternity and the country’s progressive political fraternity have lost three of their kinds, one after another. Chris Rodrigo was the first to go in March, then it was Bahu in July, and now it is Kumar David, the oldest of the three. Professor Kumar David passed away in Los Angeles, on Monday, October 14. He was 83 years old.

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