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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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Tisaranee Gunasekara, in HIMAL, 8 October 2025, under this  title “The growing dangers of Sri Lanka’s Israel nexus”

 Pro-Israel groups and Buddhist extremists are expanding Israeli influence in Sri Lanka, stoking anti-Muslim sentiment as the government maintains ambivalence around Palestine and the Gaza genocide

MOHAMED SUHAIL, a 21-year-old student, was searching for lodgings in the Colombo suburb of Dehiwala on 23 October 2024 when a mobile police unit arrested him near Israeli consular premises. His supposed offence was not carrying his national identity card. A magistrate ordered his release after the document was produced.

After Suhail went home to Mawanella, a small town some 100 kilometres from Colombo, police arrested him again. This time, he was remanded under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. His new “crime” – having anti-Israel posts on his social media – was a non-crime even under this draconian law. Yet Suhail was denied bail and remained in detention.

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Namali Premawardhana, in Sunday Times …where the title runs thus: “A timely play , where the personal and political collide” … when Studiolusion presented “Skylight” by David Hare at the Punchi Theatre on April 4-6, 2024.

“I thought the play was very relevant,” says Director Tasmin Anthonisz, explaining why this play, and why now. “It highlights how when you come from privilege, you don’t have actual interaction with the people you’re making policies for – how removed you are from the real life situation.”

The play centres on Kyra, a maths teacher in an underprivileged part of the city, who has turned her back on the daily comforts of life (a nice place to live, a good heater for the winter) in order to relate better to the people she works among. Most of the action happens in her sometimes-frivolous, sometimes-heavy conversation with her former lover, Tom, a wealthy, older businessman.

Three actors, one scene: Ayudhya Gajanayake as Kyra, Rehan Almeida as Tom left) and Akmal Hamid as Edward, Tom’s son. Pix by Akila Jayawardena

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After four long years, a Leatherback sea turtle — Earth’s largest living turtle — has returned to Sanibel Island, Florida, to nest once again. Weighing nearly a ton and stretching up to seven feet long, this gentle giant rose from the dark surf under moonlight, driven by the same ancient pull that guides her kind back to the beach where they were born — a miracle of nature called natal homing.

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C.A. Saliya in The Island, 15 October 2025, where the title reads thus: “Spending smarter to boost growth, lessons for Sri Lanka” **   …. https://island.lk/spending-smarter-to-boost-growth-lessons-for-sri-lanka/

Sri Lanka stands at a critical juncture. After decades of ambitious infrastructure projects, expanding public sector employment, and rising debt burdens, the nation’s 2022 economic crisis exposed fundamental weaknesses in how public resources are managed. As the country implements IMF-supported reforms, a crucial question emerges: Can Sri Lanka achieve robust growth not by spending more, but by spending smarter? Recent International Monetary Fund research analysing 174 economies offers compelling insights.

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