Michael Roberts: Histrionic Hitting by Harry Brooks in the 20h over by Eric Russell secures a Magical Win for England against the Windies in the Third 20-over ODI at St. Georges, 16 December 2023
Note the ‘steps
END OF OVER 1910 runs
ENG: 202/3CRR: 10.63 • RRR: 21.00 • Need 21 runs from THE LAST OVER
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An Item in the Sunday Island, 17 December 2023, entitled “World Monuments Fund officially endorses ‘88 Acres’ by the MMCA Sri Lanka”…. placed on web a few days back & in the Island as https://island.lk/world-monuments-fund-officially-endorses-88-acres-by-the-mmca-sri-lanka/
World Monuments Fund (WMF), the leading global independent organisation devoted to safeguarding the world’s most treasured places, has officially endorsed the exhibition titled ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka (MMCA Sri Lanka). The exhibition is currently on display at the museum on the ground floor of Crescat Boulevard, Colombo 3, and will be open to the public until 7 July 2024.
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As per reports, Dhananjaya de Silva is slated to take on the role of Test captain, with Kusal Mendis assuming the position of vice-captain.For the ODI team, Kusal Mendis is set to be the captain, and Charith Asalanka will serve as the vice-captain. In the T20 format, Wanindu Hasaranga is to be appointed as the captain, with Charith Asalanka named as the vice-captain.
Thilini Meegaswatta, … whose title is “Temporality of History: A Reading of the Contemporaneity of the Past in Post-war Sri Lanka” … an article presented in Proceedings of the Open University Research Sessions in 2020
This short article is a reflection on how temporality— that is ‘time’ insofar as it manifests itself in human existence (Hoy, 2009, cited in Bryant, 2009)— interacts with socio-political realities and behaviours of conflict-ridden societies in complex ways. I draw on recent political history in Sri Lanka — a South Asian island nation that had faced protracted warfare—in an attempt to demonstrate how each political moment, each configuration of political identity constitutes a melange of temporal signatures that distorts the notion of a linear time line. In other word,s the examples elaborated are expected to illustrate how the present is legible only in the view of the past and also anticipated/ imagined futures, and as such, bear inscriptions of other times. On the other hand, I also contend that the past is a shifting narrative—a construct mangled by the discursive conditions of the time of recall— which is nevertheless at the heart of the question of national identity and nation-state building (Thapar, 2014). The arguments and observations in this paper that are made in relation to Sri Lanka can nevertheless be applied to other conflict-ridden societies whose constant attempts to re/imagine a collective national identity and a consciousness is haunted by violent legacies and future anxieties.
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Johannes Leak is one of the cartoonists for The AUSTRALIAN newspaper. To receive his attention in whatever form is to reach the mountainearing heights of political commentary. Usman Khwaja is one of the rare sportsman to receive this áccolade’. Joining Australia’s Prime Minister [on Albanese] as a target is reach the cumulous clouds of public prominence.
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Thannamurippu, in The Economist, 23 November 2023 where the title runs thus: “Asian Monuments. What’s mine, what’s yours?Disputed monuments are Sri Lanka’s new ethnic flashpoint”
On a wooded hill edged by rice fields in Sri Lanka’s northern Mullaitivu district sit the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery. Members of the country’s Sinhalese majority call it “Kurundi Viharaya”. For Tamils, who are mostly Hindus and consider the war-battered north their homeland, it is “Kurunthoor Malai”. Since 2018, when the state archaeological department began excavating the site, Tamil and Sinhalese nationalists have rowed over which community has a greater claim to it.
Kurundi Dagaba
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A Sri Lankan American, whose choice of title was different: viz: “Western Media fake Headlines on Russian Losses in Ukraine to Promote more war funding.”
Note the attached fake Western media headlines
Impeccable timing: Zelensky meets with Biden and lawmakers in push for more Ukraine aid …………. CNN – December 12, 2023 ……………. “90% Russian army in TATTERS”
“Ukraine cannon fodder helps to keep Europe safe from the marauding Putin!” … Meanwhile Russian tourists are travelling in large numbers overseas.
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A Circular from The Deputy Vice-Chancellor Jessica Gallagher to Michael Roberts, 14 December 2023
Dear Michael, As 2023 comes to a close, I want to thank you, and all the valued members of our University community, for your ongoing commitment and support. It has been a full calendar of in-person and online events this year with many overseas executive missions, alumni receptions and partnership meetings. We’ve enjoyed connecting and reconnecting, sharing stories and forging exciting plans.
Darshanie Ratnawalli, here reproducing an article presented in the Colombo Telegraph and The Island in June 2016, where the title runs “Sri Lanka’s role in South Asia’s earliest writing controversy”
A few years ago someone came up with the campaign line ‘small miracle’ as a unique proposition to promote Sri Lanka to tourists. The Rajapaksa Government took exception to the ‘small’ and scrapped the campaign midway. This was a pity. The country has genuine small miracle credentials, tending sometimes to raise eyebrows by producing phenomena usually deemed too big, too grand for a country of its size. It can for example claim ownership of the oldest surviving, reliably dated samples of writing to be found in the whole of South Asia.
thuppahi
