Mayura Botejue
Aristocrats in fear as “Muslim Immigrant Communist” leads proletariat revolution in New York City. Zohran Mamdani will be the new Mayor of New York City. He promised to take on the billionaires and better the lives of working-class New Yorkers. He tapped into anti-establishment, class anger that is growing.
Meanwhile, Emperor Donny has banned the import of guillotines from France!
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Michael Roberts
This November 5th evening I had the privilege of watching Kiwi captain Mitcheel Santner nearly snatcha miraculous triumph. As a batsman at No 8 not as a bowler! He thumped sixes and boundaries in the last three overs when it seemed that NZ had no chance of a win. Bowlers Foorde were the principal victims — being thumped …. in the 18th and 19th overs for. 23 and 13 runs respectively!
Arise Sir SANTNER! What majestic striking! A captain’s effort !
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Shashik Silva, in Polity, 16 September 2025 where the title runs thus: “Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Sri Lanka”
Cleavage politics has emerged as one of the most defining features of Sri Lanka’s party system and political behaviour since independence.[1] Political commentators have identified several key fault lines that shape the country’s electoral landscape: some emphasise caste, religion, and ethnicity as particularly crucial cleavages (de Silva 1981), while others highlight the pivotal role of language in driving cleavage politics, particularly as a catalyst for the country’s prolonged ethnic conflict (DeVotta 2004).
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A closer examination of post-independence Sri Lankan politics reveals numerous examples that substantiate these claims, with ethnicity and religion consistently serving as the primary drivers of major political transformations throughout the country’s history. Politicians have repeatedly exploited ethno-religious divisions to mobilise popular support, as evidenced by their strategic use of both the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact of 1957 (Wriggins 1960) and the Dudley-Chelvanayakam Pact of 1965 as rallying points for ethnic mobilisation (Wilson 1979; Ollapally and Anandalingam 2023).
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Personnel from Different Ethnic Backgrounds have expressed Firm Accolades for Premila Thurairatnam’s Essay on Alagu Subramanium, ….Michael Roberts in Adelaide, November 2025
Very interesting article Michael. Thanks for sharing
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News Item in The Island, 3 November 2025
Former All Ceylon cricket captain Mr. Michael Tissera was the Chief Guest at Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club’s 125th jubilee celebrations in Colombo on Friday. Mr. Tissera’s during his keynote address recalled his experiences of playing cricket at P. Sara Oval in the pre-Test era when he skippered Ceylon for some famous wins. During his address, he hoped that Test cricket returns to P. Sara Oval soon. Country’s first Test venue has not hosted a Test match since 2019.
Here are the excerpts of Mr. Tissera’s speech.
Mr. Ramesh Schaffter, President Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club, Members of the Committee, Distinguished members and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good evening,
Thank you Ramesh, for the honour and privilege bestowed upon me. I am deeply humbled and to say my knees are not knocking would be an understatement.
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Placed in FACEBOOK by Nimal Jayasinha, 30 October 2025
On October 4, 2025, in Pench, India, a surreal moment was captured on CCTV. Raju Patel, a 52-year-old labourer, patted a tiger he mistook for a “big cat” after a late-night card game. Tipsy from homemade liquor, Raju stumbled onto a street where a sub-adult Bengal tiger, displaced by monsoon floods, had wandered from the nearby Pench Tiger Reserve. Unfazed, Raju gently touched its head. For 5-10 minutes, they stood together. He even offered it a swig from his bottle, which it ignored. Forest officials later arrived with spotlights and mild tranquilizers and guided the exhausted tiger back to the woods. No one was harmed, and Raju became a local legend, shrugging, “It was just a pussy cat.” As new information emerges, Raju is now under heavy police protection and has blocked his Social Media account. He was apparently being hounded by the entire local married male population who were demanding access to the recipe for the homemade liquor. 
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The father of Melbourne teenager Ben Austin, who died after an accident at cricket training, has said his son would want others to keep enjoying the “great game” after the freak incident. “He loved the game.” This is a great game, cricket, and it wasn’t the game’s fault, that was just a freak accident, a freak accident,” Jace Austin said. “Please make sure you keep playing this great game. That’s what he would want.”
VISIT ITEM IN ABC NEWS .….. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/victoria-ben-austin-cricket-death-tributes/105954270
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Hiran de Silva in FACEBOOK ……….. https://www.facebook.com/
Every school must have a weekly hour called ” Great Minds”. In that period, students must be shown the biographies of the greatest minds the world has produced for inspiration. If language is a problem, it is not difficult to include subtitles. Projectors are so cheap these days. If the education ministry can coordinate with a Chinese/Taiwanese/Korean company, a product (with an embossed seal reading “not for sale”) could be sourced for less than $125 each.
As many parents would admit, Gen-Z has no worthwhile role models. Below is such a story that will even inspire a grown-up.
ABOUT ENRICO FERMI
At 14, he had mastered calculus and classical mechanics—teaching himself from a 19th-century Latin textbook. By 21, his doctoral examiners couldn’t understand his thesis. At 41, he built the first nuclear reactor and changed the world forever.
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Alex Malcolm in ESPNCricInfo …
What explains India’s batting blowout?
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Jehan Perera in The Island, 28 October 2025, where the title runs thua: “Barometer confirms window for political settlement”... with the highlights here being impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi
Once again, Sri Lanka is at a crossroads. After decades of missed opportunities and delayed reforms, the conditions are there for a lasting political resolution of the ethnic conflict. The NPP government has the chance to resolve the country’s longest and most divisive conflict through Sri Lankan institutions, on its own terms. The government holds a two-thirds majority in parliament that allows it to amend the constitution and introduce the reforms that past governments promised but failed to deliver. It came to power on the back of a popular demand for system change, and the public expectation that followed that election was not for minor adjustments but for a deep restructuring of the state. The opposition is neither strong nor dominated by the racist and extremist voices that in the past sabotaged every attempt at reconciliation.
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