Pictorial Angles in Michael Naseby’s Tale of His Engagements with Sri Lanka, 1963-to-today
Michael Naseby’s Sri Lanka. Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained is on the market was originally due to be launched in Colombo in early April — an event knocked on the solar plexus by the Corona-virus pandemic. We will need time to acquire reviews of this large book; but let me spark interests among lap-dogs as well as cynics by presenting a election of its illustrations.
Michael Morris with family friend Mrs Veena Talwatte … & iron cages used by the LTTE for their prisoners.
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Fighting the Corona ….. Extra! Extra!
A ….. WHO updates are the most reliable
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
This website contains daily updates on the coranavirus in the form of daily situation reports published by WHO – and for those interested in reliable data, it is a better source than from governments or the media.
Beating the Corona Bug: All Your Own Work
How you can self-check about the Corona infection: Taiwanese experts suggest doing a simple check that we can do on our own every morning:
* Take a deep breath and hold your breath for more than 10 seconds. If you successfully complete it without coughing, without discomfort, a sense of oppression, etc., this shows that there is no fibrosis in the lungs, indicating essentially no infection.
- In such critical times, do this check every morning in a clean air environment!
- Also ensure that you disinfect the PC keyboard and mobile phones.
No Duty of Care: Cricket in the 1970s-and-Before
Michael Roberts
A =Phil Hughes being transported from field, 25 November 2014
B = Duleep Mendis carried to pavilion on 11th June 1975
The Bharathas of Sri Lanka: Roots and Tales
Jeremy De Lima, in The Ceylankan Number 1 of February 2020, Journal 89 Volume XXIII…… Bhāratha’s, பரதர், භාරත
United Nations Map – (Common source material)
India and Sri Lanka are geographically very near, but yet so far in culture, civilisation and genetic diversity. As depicted in the map above, the sub-oceanic existence of the hitherto mystical “Adams Bridge” between Dhanushkodi in India and Talaimannar in Sri Lanka has now been conclusively shown to exist through aerial mapping. It is thus reasonable to conclude that natural movement would have occurred between India and Sri Lanka over the aeons. While there is much documented history about Sinhalese and Tamils, there appears to be a relative dearth of public knowledge of a smaller migrant race called the Bhāratha’s. The writer hopes this compilation will improve the knowledge of this now vanishing group who have unobtrusively and yet so selflessly contributed so much to the history of this Island nation.
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Cuba reveals Exemplary Humanism in the Face of the Coronavirusa
News from Cuba, 16 March 2020 = Cuba gives permission for cruise ship carrying COVID-19 patients to dock citing solidarity and health as a human right
A British cruise ship carrying five passengers who have tested positive for the coronavirus is to dock in Cuba after being turned away by other countries. The MS Braemar, which is carrying six hundred passengers, most of whom are British, had been stranded at sea for two days while trying to find a country which would allow it to dock.
Woman-on-woman … Modern Day ‘Arabian’ Slavery in New york
Hassina Leelarathna, in Ft.lknews, 17 March 2020, with this title “New Jersey woman in same-sex marriage with Sri Lankan gets stiff prison sentence for cycle of abuse”……………… http://www.ft.lk/news/New-Jersey-woman-in-same-sex-marriage-with-Sri-Lankan-gets-stiff-prison-sentence-for-cycle-of-abuse/56-697349
A Jordanian-born New Jersey woman who entered into a same sex marriage with a Sri Lankan and forced her to work as a housekeeper and nanny for almost a decade without pay has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison (10 March). A federal judge also sentenced Alia Imad Faleh Al Hunaity, aka Alia Al Qaternah, 44, a naturalised US citizen, to three years of supervised release and ordered her to pay restitution of $ 1.2 million.
Dinesh Gunawardena in Forthright Challenge to UNHRC and Yahapalana ‘Mangalaya’
Neville Ladduwahetty, in Island, 3 March 2020, where the title runs “Fundamental Rights, Human Rights and other rights”
At the 43rd Session of the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardena, on 26th February, 2020, placed on record a clear, firm and unambiguous statement that Sri Lanka was withdrawing from co-sponsorship of UNHRC Resolution 40/1 and its precedent 30/1, on grounds that “Constitutionally, the resolution seeks to grant upon Sri Lanka obligations that cannot be carried out within the constitutional framework and it infringes the sovereignty of the people of Sri Lanka and violates the basic structure of the constitution”.
