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Nandasiri  Jasentuliyana

Today, we pause to reflect and express our deepest appreciation for the remarkable life and legacy of Nihal Seneviratne, former Secretary-General of Parliament, whose passing marks the end of an era in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary history.

Nihal Seneviratne, fondly known as “Galba”, was born in 1934 in Elpitiya and received his early education at Royal College, Colombo. He pursued higher studies at the University of Peradeniya, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1959. He then entered Law College in 1960, where I first met him. The following year, he completed the Advocate Final Examination and took oaths as an Advocate.

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Senaka Weeraratne

Photo – Wilfred Perera, Senaka Weeraratna and Harold Wijesena in front of the Octagon Pavilion(Paththirippuwa) at the Dalada Maligawa (1972)

Observer Beyond Greenland

Trump says he cannot have Russian and Chinese warships near Greenland. What happened to that infamous “freedom of navigation” idea the West, Australian military generals, prime ministers,  ASPI, and the Western media, keep talking about?

The West cannot claim freedom of navigation in the Taiwan Strait, and off the coast of China, and then claim that wonderful “freedom of navigation” doesn’t apply to Greenland. It either applies everywhere or not at all.

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Niyanthani Kadirgamar

Education occupies a special place in the minds of the general public in Sri Lanka. Thanks to the visionary education reforms put forward by the Report of the Special Committee on Education in 1943 and the consequent Free Education Act of 1945, people from all walks of life have benefited from public education. Thus, no other singular reform agenda evokes such animated interest and vociferous debate as the subject of education.

Estate primary school in disused century-old tea plantation factory building

Given such a context, to propose drastic changes to the public education system without extensive consultation and substantial consensus from interested parties is akin to stirring the hornet’s nest. No government should know this truth better than the present National People’s Power (NPP) government, with its parliamentary group consisting of a significant number of former student leaders, educationists, and academics. Yet, the surprise announcement of the ‘Transforming Education’ reforms by Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, who also holds the education ministerial portfolio, has caused quite the stir.

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Observer in a Black Sea Resort

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Dirk Tissera in Facebook , ? January 2026, where the title reads thus “TIME FOR DASSA TO SHOW HIS PASSA TO HIS CRITICS”

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Observer in a Black Sea Town  … with highlighting imposed by The Editor Thuppahi

News just in:

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he will be President of Cuba within two months.

UK Defence Minister the Rt Hon. John Healey says he has a plan to kidnap Vladimir Putin.

Denmark declares it will defend Greenland from a US take-over using bows and arrows from the armoury of Danish King Sweyn I Forkbeard who conquered all of England in 1014.

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eLanka News Item circulated by Charles Schokman of Melbourne

eLanka is delighted to share the wonderful news that Dr Barclay George “Buddy” Reid has been formally inducted into the Table Tennis Australia Hall of Fame, one of the highest honours bestowed by the sport’s national governing body. This prestigious recognition celebrates a lifetime of exceptional achievement, dedication, and service to table tennis, both in Sri Lanka and Australia.

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Mevan Pieris, adding a Note to the photograph of the  ROYAL COLLEGE CRICKET TEAM of that  year which Thuppahi secured via the descendants of JCW Rock, a Sri Lankan descendant of a Barbadian in the Ceylon Civil Service.

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Rex Clementine in The Island, January 2026

Sri Lanka depend so much on Pathum Nissanka in white ball cricket and when he fires, the team wins and when he fails, they flop

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