Nuwandhika Senarathne’s Rendering of NAMO NAMO MATHA …. before a cricket encounter involving the Women’s Cricket Team
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgzQcqQtnMDtZfDPwrcRpgKbCFLrW?projector=1
Sri Lankan Police as An Israeli Arm of Law….!!
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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When Tasmin’s SKYLIGHT was performed in Colombo in 2024
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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A Leatherback Sea Turtle….A Wandering Wonder
ITEM in Facebook
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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Sri Lanka at the Crossroads
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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Waduge’s Chauvinist Sinhala Stance is Untenable
Mayura Botejue
The views of Ms. Waduge and her chauvinist Sinhala nationalist backers do not help to serve the interests of Sri Lanka. They sow discord and division at a time when the South Asian geopolitical brews concocted are exceedingly complex and potentially toxic. The small island of SL is under watch and influence of powerful competing nations while it is parked well up the strategic defense crotch of a giant nation – India.
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Female Personnel for Lanka facing the Chinese ‘Might’
From an Entry in Facebook by ?? .… with the title being a Thuppahi ‘Play’
Great picture for women’s empowerment. The picture tells a story. When Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ms Harini Amerasuriya met with Chinese leaders the Sri Lankan delegation looks mainly saree clad females while the Chinese delegation looks mainly black suite clad males. What a great picture.
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Palestinian Rights …Now Obliterated….
Observer from A Black Sea Town
SEE https://youtu.be/O4d7YZ2KU-I?
AND … Part 2 https://youtu.be/hgkFVWS9ohU?
This UN film The Palestinians do have rights (1978), in two parts, provides a glimpse into Palestine after British intervention, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. From the perspective of 2025, 47 years after this film was made, we can see that what is happening in Gaza today is nothing new but a continuation of Jewish-Zionist policy since the creation if Israel to (1) destroy the idea of a Palestinian state through violent means, (2) expand Greater Israel and (3) exterminate or expel Palestinians from their native land and (4) turn all Palestinians into “Terrorists” so Israel can claim the legitimate right to slaughter all Palestinians.
A key focus of the film is Palestinian identity and the right to a Palestinian state.
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For Sri Lanka: Shenali Waduge’s Staunch Sinhala Appraisal
Shenali Waduge ** … with highlighting that is her hand
Sri Lanka’s Economy is sustained by Sinhala Taxpayers: Without them, Sri Lanka stops – thank Sinhalese without demanding separatism
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Introducing VISIONS OF TREASON by Kelly & Thiranagama
Traitors. Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building …. .. ….. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.9783/9780812205893/html
Chap I = Introduction: Specters of Treason …. (pp. 1-23) …. by Tobias Kelly and Sharika Thiranagama …. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fj4qf.3
The English novelist E. M. Forster once wrote that “if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country” (1972, 66). Forster’s claim seems particularly provocative, given that it was written in 1939, on the eve of World War II, a time when accusations of treason could have deadly implications. Yet for Forster personal bonds of love and friendship were to take priority over the demands of state and nation. At a personal level, Forster’s claim should almost certainly be read in terms of the criminalization…
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