July 22, 2024 · 8:34 pm

The Darrawela Club Memorabilia in Up-Country Sri Lanka

David Colin-Thome in 2008 …………………………………………………………….. https://www.historyofceylontea.com/ceylon-publications/feature-articles/the-darrawella-club-memorabilia-and-photograph-collection.html .… with highlighting emphasis imposed by The eDitor, Thuppahi

The Darrawella Club has the finest collection of memorabilia of all planters’ clubs in the country, dating back to 1870, which features the participants in the first cricket encounter between Darrawella Club and Radella Club. These two clubs have not only had a long history of sporting rivalry, but they were also the most prominent sporting planters’ clubs at national competition level in Sri Lanka.

 Fig 1 = the digitised photographs lined up for replacing in their frames

 

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July 22, 2024 · 1:12 pm

Nurturing Crocodiles for Top-End Consumer Market ….!!!

An YOU TUBE presentation of a sophisticated billionaire market  ….. a find….  courtesy of Joe Paiva in Adelaide ….

VINTAGE LEATHER HAND BAG — Hand made in the 70’s …..
AU $250.00

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July 21, 2024 · 8:16 pm

Rare CEYLONIANA in the Roberts Study: Issues for the Future

Hallo to Those Attached to “CEYLONIANA” and Valuable Lankan Artefacts & Books

…………… Way back I took steps to catalogue and transport my Oral History tapes and other valuable material to Sri Lanka with the assistance of Jitto Arulampalam in Melbourne, several Adelaidians and VERITE RESEARCH in Colombo (a prolonged and massive set of operations). That stock in now available to the public at the National Library Services Board in Torrington Avenue, Colombo.[1]

Now: as my wife and I age and enter the last phase of our lives, we face the issue of the stock in my study. This includes:

  1. many-many-many off-prints of articles on Sri Lanka and world politics;
  2. books under my name;
  3. books on Sri Lanka and/or world politics (including Marxist fare);
  4. Sessional Papers and Census publications from official stock in Sri Lanka …in largish foolscap size bound copies ….;

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July 21, 2024 · 8:30 am

The International Centre of Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka: Its Genesis in 1981-83

Kingsley M. De Silva …. a summary memo drafted way back by Professor Kingsley M. De Silva and sent to me in July 2024 by Iranga Silva of the ICES in Kandy[1]

Early in 1981, I had two American visitors, one of whom, Professor Donald Horowitz, I had known since the late 1960s when he visited the island for research on the abortive coup d’état of 1962 in the island. The other was Robert Goldmann, a programme officer of the Ford Foundation in New York. They had come to Kandy to invite me to a Ford Foundation-sponsored conference to be held in August 1981 at the Taita Hills Game Park about 200 km from Nairobi, Kenya, where a group of scholars and administrators—from governments and the private sector—from many parts of the world would discuss the theme of ‘Ethnic Problems in the Developing and Developed Worlds’. A record of the proceedings of this conference—including most of the papers presented—is available in the library of the ICES in Kandy.

Prof. Goldmann

to be presented one of Prof. Horowitz

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July 19, 2024 · 5:19 pm

Underlining BLACK JULY in 1958: Poignant Reflections

Daya Wickramatunga to Jayantha Somasundaram, 14 July 2024, in Response to Jayantha’s Circulation of the DAILY MIRROR Item on the 1958 Riots: viz. …………………………. https://www.dailymirror.lk/opinion/Black-July-facing-the-moment-of-truth/231-287106

The ‘Sinhala Only Bill’ by SWRD was ridiculous. SWRD could hardly speak Sinhala when he returned to Sri Lanka from Oxford. That [the Sinhaal Only campaign] was obviously a political move by SWRD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo shows Tamils being ridiculed and assaulted on Galle Roadin Colombo by Sinhala çitizens’…but check if this is from 1983

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July 17, 2024 · 2:25 pm

How Jaffna University has enhanced the Capacities of Its Economics Students

Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, in The Island, 17 July 2024 , where the title reads “Enhancing competitiveness of economics students at University of Jaffna” .... reproduced here with highlights impose by The editor, Thuppahi

The Faculties of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in state-owned and government-operated public universities in Sri Lanka have long faced severe criticism for producing “unemployable graduates” from the state (successive governments, higher education administrators, and the Auditor General’s Department) and society. Our goal here is not to dispute these criticisms; rather, we aim to highlight an initiative to enhance the competitiveness of economics students at the University of Jaffna (UoJ), which is celebrating its golden jubilee year since its establishment on August 1, 1974, as the Jaffna campus of the former University of Sri Lanka (established on February 15, 1972, the successor to the University of Ceylon established by the British on July 1, 1942).

  Nagalingam Balakrishnan, a gentleman and scholar

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July 17, 2024 · 1:48 pm

Senaka Weeraratna presses His Claims as Inventor of the DRS in Cricket

Michael Roberts

Senaka Weeraratna of Royal College and Sri Lanka has been persistent in his campaign for recognition being accorded to his role in conceiving the revolutonary DECISION REVIEW SYSTEM in cricket matches. On one occasion he even visited me at my sister’s house in Hampden Lane,Wellawatte, Colombo, in order to persuade me about the validity of his cause. I never had any objection to his position; but I have no clout within the ICC and limited capacities in investigating such an issue. All I can say is that SENAKA reminds me of one Anagarika Dharmapala — one of Senaka’s relatives — in the zealousness and persistence devoted to a cause. 

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July 15, 2024 · 4:19 pm

Facing the West: Three Strands of Russian Thinking Today

Observer in a Black Sea Port, …. with highlighting mpasis imposed by Thuppahi

Broadly speaking, today, there are three types of Russians as follows, 

1) Pro-Western Russians. This group love the West, want Russia to be fully integrated in the West, and believe that can only happen if Putin is killed or removed. They use words like “fascist”, “tyrant”, “bloodthirsty”, “war criminal”, and “genocidal maniac” to describe Putin. All of this is dangerous hyperbole because they don’t appreciate that if Putin were removed, a hardcore nationalist would likely replace him — which will be far worse than Mr. Putin. Continue reading →

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July 15, 2024 · 12:58 pm

Where Wisdom outbowls Intelligence

Lines of Wisdom …. from a Cricketing Professor and Thomian

1. Intelligence leads to arguments. Wisdom leads to settlements.
2. Intelligence is power of will. Wisdom is power OVER will.
3. Intelligence is heat, it burns. Wisdom is warmth, it comforts.
4. Intelligence is pursuit of knowledge, it tires the seeker. Wisdom is pursuit of truth, it inspires the seeker.
5. Intelligence is holding on. Wisdom is letting go.
6. Intelligence leads you. Wisdom guides you.
7. An intelligent man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows that there is still something to learn.
8. An intelligent man always tries to prove his point. A wise man knows there really is no point.
9. An intelligent man freely gives unsolicited advice. A wise man keeps his counsel until all options are considered.
10. An intelligent man understands what is being said. A wise man understands what is left unsaid.
11. An intelligent man speaks when he has to say something. A wise man speaks when he has something to say.
12. An intelligent man sees  everything as relative. A wise man sees everything as related.
13. An intelligent man tries to control the mass flow. A wise man navigates the mass flow.
14. An intelligent man preaches. A wise man reaches.
 
*Intelligence is good but wisdom achieves better results.*🌈😊🌹

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July 14, 2024 · 8:32 pm

Trump’s Demagogic March leaps further ….

Mayura Botejue in USA

Trump’s marketing instincts are sharp and he seized the moment!

This image will circulate widely. It will draw more adulation from his voter base and help to sway undecided others who admire courage, toughness, defiance, etc. Especially powerful when his campaign casts his opponent Biden as frail and senile.

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