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Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi in Facebook, October 2025 …. with highlights  imposed by  The Editor, Thuppahi

This photo of Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya is the result of an attempt to create an artistic photo in an official photoshoot. There, light and shadow express the isolation of responsibility with a weight that exceeds the balance of the image. Her look off camera suggests reflection and supervision, spreading her thoughts to the future of the nation beyond the frame. The sharp side lights fell on her face created an artistic depth going to the Italian Chieroscuro style. There symbolically, light becomes an image for clarity and also becomes the memory of the struggles that darkness suffered. Silence provides strength and silence provides stability.

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Lalith Lankatilleke’s Book on The Way to Address Poverty & Underdevelopment

Bio-Data  on Back Page

Lalith Lankatilleke (75), trained as an architect and planner in Sri Lanka, embarks on an epic journey at the age of twenty-six into the heart of Africa, following his passion to contribute to the advancement of humanity. In his mission to transform the lives of poor, marginalised people, he encounters a stark dichotomy between how people think and how professionals and bureaucrats define ‘development’. Throughout his endeavours, he observes this contrast across various societies and cultures, yet the underlying message remains the same: true development must be realised from within the people themselves. Development imposed from the outside cannot address the diverse needs of communities and invariably fails. His journey of unlearning and relearning from the people is vividly chronicled from 1976 to 2014, covering twelve countries across Africa and Asia.

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Tommy Fernando

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M. Shamil Amit …  in  Daily Mirror, October 2025

In an unexpected but determined display, Sri Lanka’s Under 19 girls, many of them from the provinces, made a clean sweep of the five match T20 series against the visiting Australia Under-19 side. It was like putting the icing on the cake when the budding women cricketers of the island pulled off a convincing six wicket win in the fifth and last match at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket stadium on Monday.

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Suranjan Karunaratne in The  Island, 2 October 2025, with this title “Kelani Ganga at a crossroads: Suranjan Karunaratne warns of an unfolding crisis”

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Brian Daizen Victoria, in Buddhist Door,  29 September 2025, where the title runs thus: “The Prospect of Buddhist Complicity in Genocide, Part Two”

The Prospect of Buddhist Complicity in Genocide, Part Two

 In December 2024, I wrote an article titled, “On the Prospect of Buddhist Complicity in Genocide.” Despite its title, the article was primarily devoted to issues related to the emergence of a Buddhist military chaplaincy within the US military. It was only in the last line of the article that I expressed the possibility “at least some Buddhists” might end up complicit in genocide. At the time, I found it difficult to imagine there would come a time when Buddhism or Buddhists would in fact become complicit in anything resembling genocide.

  IDF soldiers. From google.com

Issim Amon

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Dr Anas Iqtait of  , whose chosen title was “Tony Blair’s ‘Board of Peace’ is a farce, not diplomacy”

Donald Trump’s 20-point “peace  plan” for Gaza, unveiled with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s endorsement, has been  presented as a blueprint to end the war. In reality it is adocument designed less to resolve conflict than to reframe it.

Its language is intentionally  vague, its mechanisms impractical and its assumptions historically dishonest. The plan reinforces Israel’s position while leaving Palestinians with little more than recycled illusions. Yet at this stage it may be the only practical path to pause the killing and save what  remains of Gaza’s population from Israel’s unhinged war machine.

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Rock’n Roll with the Stars & Stand-out Leaders in USA in  the Mid-Twentieth Century

Super Collection- Old Movie Stars