Thuppahi's Blog

Hiran De  Silva in Facebook, where  the title was different  [& has  disappeared ..FB style]

Fresh  Serious consideration for the president’s attention: [given  that] both attempts at extensive reforms by PM Harini, although noble in thought, are extremely premature.

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Courtesy of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon & Sean Amos: Three rare works from R. L. Brohier’s personal collection have been digitized and made publicly accessible for the first time.

This project was made possible through a collaboration between the  Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, University of Kelaniya, Rev’d Perry Brohier (Administrator of the Estate of the late R L Brohier), and the American Institute for Lankan Studies (AILS).

• Genealogies of Dutch-Burgher Families (1910) – A fascinating compilation of handwritten genealogical records tracing Dutch Burgher ancestry in Ceylon.
• Speeches and Minutes of Sir Henry George Ward (1864) – Speeches and administrative papers from Ceylon’s 11th Governor, detailing reforms in irrigation, agriculture, and infrastructure.
• The Lees of Lanka (1934) – Arthur N. Ohnimesz’s critical study of the Dutch Burgher community, exploring social reform, religion, and identity.

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Brian Daizen Victoria, at Buddhist.Door.net 21 August 2025, with thits title:  “How should a Buddhist face War?”

Readers of my previous two articles on the relationship between Buddhism and war (or violence in general) will be aware that the historical examples I highlight represent what the Japanese call hanmen kyōshi, or “teachers by negative example.” If the warmongering of these allegedly Buddhist teachers was mistaken, the question naturally arises as to what the Buddhist attitude to war is, or at least ought to be.

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Michael Roberts

I miss PERCY ABEYSEKARA aka Pissu  Percy. His  presence in  cricketing arenas was a shot in the arm ….and maybe elsewhere corporeal too  … for ardent cricket watchers. He  was  more than that: Percy was a friend, an Aloysian mate who had been one of the school cheerleaders when  I participated in  the cheering ‘troupes’ in the early 1950s.

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Raj Sivanathan in GROUNDVIEWS, 21 October 2025, where the title reads thus “The Unhealed  Wounds: The Jaffna Hospital Tragedy 38  Years On”

The soil of Jaffna still carries voices from the hospital wards of 1987. The question is whether the world will listen or look away.

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Reproduced from the Website of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology …..Prof. Lalith Gamage…..  Vice Chancellor | MD | CEO | Professor

   Current Positions

• Vice Chancellor/MD/CEO and Professor
  Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
• Affiliate Professor
  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• Adjunct Professor: Curtin University, Perth, Australia
• Chairman, Sri Lanka Technology Incubator
• Board Member, Colombo YMBA

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Vinod  Moonesinghe, whose title reads thus: “When AI Fears Death.  Anthropic’s Alarming Findings and the Return of the Frankenstein Complex”

The science and science fiction writer and inventor of the term “robotics”, Isaac Asimov coined the term “Frankenstein complex” to describe humanity’s deep-seated fear of artificial beings turning against their creators. Ever since Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, this anxiety haunted science fiction, manifesting in tales of rogue machines, killer robots, and AI uprisings. Asimov, writing in the 1940s, sought to challenge this narrative. He envisioned robots not as threats, but as tools governed by ethical constraints. To this end, he introduced the Three Laws of Robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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Michael Roberts

B:  The violent  SL Tamil attempts to set up a separate state not only fostered severe internal conflicts within the Tamil populace, but also led  to vicious assaults and actions (including mass evictions) against the Tamil-speaking Muslim Moor peoples resident in the north and east. These memories remain and constitute an unresolved problem. 

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Item in The ISLAND, 18 October 2025, entitlled “The Government of Sri Lanka is ready to work in cooperation with India and the international community for a prosperous Sri Lanka – Prime Minister” .… with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi

Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya, recounted the government’s commitment to build a sound society with inclusivity, and democracy followed by a future vision, and work in cooperation with India and the international community for a prosperous Sri Lanka. The Prime Minister made these remarks while participating in the 2025 NDTV World Summit in New Delhi on Friday [17 October 2025].

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Nuwandhika Senarathne’s Rendering of  NAMO NAMO MATHA  …. before a cricket encounter involving the Women’s Cricket Team

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