July 4, 2025 · 8:13 pm

Kandy ‘Swamped’ by Waste

Chaturanga P Samarasinghe, in Daily Mirror Online, 1 July 2025, where the title reads thus: “Kandy’s dirty pretty things”

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July 4, 2025 · 7:26 pm

Biographical Paths to Lankan History via ‘Hits’ on TPS

A MEMO From Michael Roberts as Editor, Thuppahi,  July 2025

The Word Press system keeps me informed about the HITs on TPS items everyday and also assembles figures for each week. Reviewing these details provides one with a glimpse of internet viewers and their interests. As an exercise with this objective I provide figures of HITS on items carrying biographical tales.

HEREWITh, then, are the figures of such hits — HITS on bio-tales –– during the past week.

 

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July 4, 2025 · 4:03 pm

Chandana effects Fielding Transformation in ODI Squad

Rex Clementine in The Island, 4 July 2025, where the title runs thus:

If there was one glaring chink in Sri Lanka’s armour during their disastrous 2023 World Cup campaign, it was their fielding. Sloppy, uninspired and error-strewn, the islanders dropped more catches than any other team, earning the unenviable tag of the worst fielding side in the tournament.

Upul Chandana when  he was Under 19

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July 4, 2025 · 1:39 am

AI Imperial Intervention! Saniotis/Roberts Article Reviewed

Michael Roberts

In what seems to be a powerful and imperialistic act, that ominous agency, AI, has summarized and commented on an old article written by Arthur Saniotis and myself in 2006 and presented in SOCIAL ANALYSIS. I am afraid that I have lost touch with Arthur Saniotis. C’est la vie.

This Pix is from the bac cover of a notebook purchased by me in Kilinovhvhi in lat 2004. It displays Tamil heroes and heroins who have died in the SL Tamil cause:; ………………… Sivakkumaran, Shankar, Thilipan, Annai Pupathi, Miller and Malathi.

 

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July 3, 2025 · 7:04 pm

Hiran Applauds Sri Lanka’s ODI Win Over Bangladesh

Hiran Hewavisenti in FACEBOOK,, 3 July 2025

What a show🔥‼️The skipper leads from the front, has a cool head and makes all the right moves with his timely bowling changes.
The former captain has a hot head and weaves his magic when we need it most. His persona energises others on the field, not to mention the fans!

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July 3, 2025 · 12:35 pm

Rugby: British Lions Down Under –Schedule

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Date 28 June – 2 August 2025 …………..Coach … Andy Farrell ….. ……………. Tour captain(s) Maro Itoje

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July 1, 2025 · 8:27 pm

Rejuvenated Sri Lankan ODI Cricket guided by Jayasuriya

Rex Clementine in The Island, 1 July 2025, where the title reads “Sri Lanka’s white ball renaissance under Jayasuriya

Under Sanath Jayasuriya’s watch, Sri Lanka beat both Australia and India, world’s number one and number two ranked teams, in ODIs.

 Once giants of the white-ball game, Sri Lanka were dealt a harsh reality check when they failed to qualify for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy — a bitter pill to swallow for a nation that once redefined the one-day format with audacity and flair. Their ninth-place finish at the 2023 World Cup saw them miss the cut, triggering alarm bells across the island’s cricketing corridors.

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June 30, 2025 · 11:15 am

Cricket: Sri Lanka A Team in Australia on Tour Now …

This A team had begun with a practice match in Perth but it appears that the principal matches will be in the Northern Territory, that is, at Darwin.

The News Item on Web

Australia A will play three one-dayers and two first-class matches in the Northern Territory in July First-class cricket will end a 19-year absence to make its return to the Top End next month with Australia A confirmed to play a series of matches against Sri Lanka A…. See Marrara Cricket Grounds below …  it sits next door to the larger Marrara Cricket Stadium // Getty

 

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June 30, 2025 · 10:57 am

Maya Joint of Australia Wins Eastbourne Tennis Final

HOT NEWS =  Australian teenager Maya Joint beat Alexandra Eala in a three-set epic in the Eastbourne Open final. Joint saved four match points in a gripping third set before winning the tiebreaker 1 day ago.

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June 29, 2025 · 9:37 pm

Milestones: Chandrika at Eighty

Gamini Keerawella in The Island,  29 June 2025  where the title runs thus: “CBK at 80: A Trailblazer’s Legacy in Perspective”

  Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga

As Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka’s first female Executive President, turns 80 on June 29, a timely question arises: how will history remember her legacy? Born into a political family as the daughter of two Prime Ministers, her path to leadership was steeped in legacy. But it was not lineage alone that defined her public life. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, commonly known as CBK, carved out a political identity marked by her bold decisions, reformist ambition, and resilience in the face of violence and controversy. Historians may debate the long-term impact of her policies, but they are unlikely to overlook her key milestones— first, most notably, her key role in ushering in two of the most consequential regime changes in modern Sri Lankan history: in 1994 and again in 2015.

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