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Review in The ISLAND, 30 November 2025, entitled “Nawaz and Afridi blow Sri Lanka away to seal tri-series for Pakistan”

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Uditha Devapriya, in The Morning.lk,  23 Nov 2025 …. where the title runs thus: “Working in Multitudes: Rediscovering Martin Wickramasinghe”

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Some appropriate cartoons?

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A  Roaming  World  Citizen

https://youtu.be/1BNSvb0IueM?si=PntIMYjS9J2Iu6us

Special Forces Hostage Rescue: Operation Chavín de Huántar

Real Crime

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In this episode, the 1997 Peruvian hostage crisis unfolded when the Maoist guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) took over 700 hostages at the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Lima on December 17, 1996. The standoff lasted for 126 days, with the government of President Alberto Fujimori initially attempting negotiations before opting for a military solution. On April 22, 1997, Peruvian commandos executed Operation Chavín de Huántar, storming the residence and successfully rescuing all hostages while killing all 14 MRTA militants. This operation not only bolstered Fujimori’s popularity but also significantly weakened the MRTA, marking a turning point in Peru’s struggle against insurgency and raising important questions about human rights and state responses to terrorism.

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A  NOTE  …. 

Consider  the  pictorial material and  varied written items in the two-volume Vijitha Yapa Publication by Michael Roberts,  Tamil Person & State. Essays  and  Tamil Person & State. Pictorial, (2012, ISBN).

Tamil Person and State: Essays

https://www.vijithayapa.com/product/tamil-person-and-state-essays/

Courtesy  of  Sunil Thenabadu

ICC ANNOUNCES ICC MEN’S T20 WORLD CUP SCHEDULE IN FEBRUARY 2026

Sri Lanka to Face Australia, Ireland, Oman and Zimbabwe in Group Stage

The ICC has announced the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup schedule, with Sri Lanka placed in Group B alongside Ireland, Oman, Zimbabwe, and Australia. The tournament will be co-hosted by Sri Lanka and India, featuring 20 teams divided into four groups before progressing to the Super Eights stage.

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Dannie Byrne, as final part of his illuminating coverage  of the SAF-India encounters from a neutral Englisman’s position

Harmer proves to be too good for the Indian batsmen who sink to a humiliating new low. Day 5 in Guwahati.

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Bedgar Perera

I had happened to listen on youtube some time in February,2025, to an address by a learned senior professor,(whose name I had failed to get at) delivered before a distinguished audience that had included a large gathering of Buddhist clergy,a former President, a former Speaker and other politicians most of whom held power in yesteryear and are since out of the saddle.

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Madushka Balasuriya in  ESPNcricinfo, November  2025 where the  title reads   “Nissanka’s 98* keeps Sri Lanka’s hopes of making tri-series final alive” ….

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Michael Roberts

Though Don Bradman had settled down in Adelaide and his son was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Adelaide University and thereby a colleague [1], I never met the Don personally (while recognising his greatness by attending the massed commemoration of his death at the Adelaide Oval in 2001).

The first encounter with Bradman Weerakon was via his wife. It was an unplanned ‘encounter’. She was floating in  complete peace in the relatively calm waters between reef and shore at the Boy’s Bathing Place off the Fort of Galle  — a spot about 500 yards from the Roberts house in Middle Street — without  allowance for the gentle current which took her into a rocky  section of the swimming  spot where corals and sea pencils were a danger.  Spotting this, I swam rapidly to her side, told her to stay calm and floating and then guided her safely (still floating on her back) to a spot on the shoreline. She was pleased and grateful to the teenage lad who had assisted her.

the photo alongside is not of the Boy’d Bsthing Place” but it suggests the  ckind of physical circumstances where I participated ona minor rescue act

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Chandrasena Maliyadde, in DailyFT 12 July 2025, where the title reads thus: “A Man lived in Many Hearts”….. https://www.ft.lk/columns/A-man-lived-in-many-hearts/4-778880

His legacy, lasting impact, and the void have no substitutes. His loss is not mourned only by his family, relatives, or friends. The entire country does it. The entire population was his family. There are 1.5 million public servants in the country. Bradman was always the pinnacle and was among the few most respected public servants. His demise marks the end of an era. It marks a profound loss and an absence that leaves a lasting impact and cannot be easily replaced.

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