With Scott Walker and Bill Deutrom in the forefront …. SEE https://thuppahis.com/2018/12/14/scott-walkers-charitable-outreach-in-sri-lanka/#more-33094 FOR DETAILS
Note the sensible footwear
Water Purification in the North Central Province in Pictures and Place List
An Earnest Appeal to Sri Lanka’s Political Leaders
Mervyn De Silva, in a Memo entitled “Suggestions for Good Governance sans Rhetoric”
Introduction:
Upon the wreckage that our country is now left in, even after a journey of decades since the Independence ,o ne has to design the structure of its future by laying strong cornerstones with strength and purpose. In order to achieve this goal you should focus on the following measures
1) Through a process of careful selection, assemble a team of concerned, patriotic, and educated politicians, senior experienced and nationally
recognized intellectuals and professionals, former administrators and judicial officers of the highest caliber and, clean & uncorrupt businessmen, who have
the capacity and the will, to place the interest of the country and the people before their own, at all times, in carrying out all the duties & responsibilities
entrusted to them. Honesty, Integrity, diligence, and faithfulness to our country’s goal will be the hallmark. Continue reading
Re-positioning Uyangoda et al in the 21st Century Political Dispensation
Vinod Moonesinghe … with highlighting being impositions of The Editor, Thuppahi, whose “NOTE” at the end is also pertinent
The judgement of the Supreme Court, whatever the motives of the judges, is broadly perceived by the mass of people as being detrimental to democracy, (a) by putting back in the seats of power a regime which had proved itself not only incompetent, but venal, and totally dependent on the diplomatic corps of the Western powers; and (b) by preventing the people from voting.
The people whom Uyangoda mentions as being “committed to civil liberties”, people who opposed what they called a “constitutional coup,” were voluble in presenting themselves as “acting in the interests of democracy”, not of Ranil Wickramasinghe, in fact only appear to be committed to the civil liberties of the elite. Continue reading
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Palitha Manchanayake’s Life and Times
Ubeyasiri Wijeyananda Wickrama, reviewing Palitha Manchanayake’s Interesting Episodes in Life …. with highlighting emphasis imposed in arbitrary fashion by The Editor, Thuppahi
On the basis of positive responses that the author had on his earlier publication ‘Some Recollections and Reflections’ he was encouraged to produce the current episodes relating to his life. This book consists of 32 narratives in the form of episodes in its contents. The author has presented an introductory preface while the foreword is by the H.E. High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Australia, Mr Somasundaram Skandakumar.
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Sri Lanka at the Pinnacle of the World in its Water Supplies
Sudath Gunasekara, in The Island, 16 December 2018, were the title is “ Vision and mission on water management in Sri Lanka!”
A recent study on Sri Lanka has identified it as one of the six countries that share one half of the 0.3% drinkable water this planet has. What is even more important and surprising is that ours has been identified as the only country in the world that will have drinking water even if there is going to be a shortage of drinking water in the whole world. This news has made water the biggest asset and the most valuable commodity of Sri Lanka that has put it on the top of the world.
Jayadeva UJyangoda’s Lament from the Heart in November 2018
Editor, Thuppahi: This passionate public statement in early November is a cry from the heart which conveys important historical details. Readers familiar with all the circumstances will be able to pinpoint what is missing and what has been unsaid about the major events that my friend “Uyan” traverses. I am not conversant with man y of the intricate details and strands in the politics of Sri Lanka; so this is an invitation for critical comment and additional information — data which can also take in the information and false news identified in the article arising from Bill Deutrom’s Incisive NOTE. viz, = https://thuppahis.com/2018/12/16/hatreds-chasms-bill-deutroms-insights-on-the-political-impasse-in-sri-lanka/#more-33101
]ayadeva Uyangoda: “The Political is Personal: An Essay in Despair from Sri Lanka,” 5 November 2018, https://thewire.in/south-asia/the-political-is-personal-an-essay-in-despair-from-sri-lanka
In his explanation of why he removed Ranil Wickremasinghe from the office of prime minister, President Maithripala Sirisena cited policy and personal differences between the two. An analysis of his speech shows that personal reasons are stronger than policy reasons and the personal is very much political. The text of President Sirisena’s address to the nation reminds Sri Lanka’s citizens of the explanation he offered in the latter part of 2014 as to why he left his former political boss, Mahinda Rajapaksa. There too, the personal was political. Continue reading
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Hatreds. Chasms. Bill Deutrom’s Insights on the Political Impasse in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, 15 December 2018, where the title is different
Email Note from Bill Deutrom in Lanka to Michael Roberts, 8 Dec 2018
Thank you, Michael for your amazing collection of articles on the Eelam War and its aftermath as well as the present political impasse. Alas, they will not convince people who have already made up their mind based on emotion, ethnicity or with a hatred for Rajapaksa. Continue reading
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Scott Walker’s Charitable Outreach in Sri Lanka
News Item in Daily FT, 13 October 2018, where the title runs ” “Australian philanthropist sponsors water purification for 100 villages with ABC Trade & Investments’
Like most good things, Scoot Walker’s introduction to Sri Lanka also happened by chance. He was en route from Australia to England on a ship when they docked on the island for a day. It was then Walker first visited the Colombo and Mount Lavinia areas and felt a strong sense of attachment and was convinced that he was “Sri Lankan in a past life!”
Hot Press from Sri Lanka: Thoughtful Ethnographic Commentary
Arun … and Sam … 
A = Introduction from The Editor, Thuppahi
‘Sam’ Samarasinghe is an old Peradeniya colleague who was born and bred in the Kandy Peradeniya area. We worked closely together in the 1970s in running the Ceylon Studies Seminar. He has been teaching at Tulane University since about 1989, but maintains a flat in Kandy and returns every year. He was a central figure in the ICES affairs in Kandy till about 2006(?). More vitally, his local embeddedness is signaled in his central role in running a Kandy ‘rag’ (The Kandy Herald I think it was/is called). Continue reading
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Hambantota Port: Some Basic Facts from the Spot Today
Lakshman F. B. Gunasekara,** responding to a SET of QUESTIONS from Michael Roberts [in black …with His Answers in blue]
For my own edification I would appreciate your THOUGHTS on any – or all — of these specific areas …. Or alternatively if you can point me towards some authoritative article which clarify the issues in useful ways.
A = Which Ministry or department is in charge of the day-to-day operations of the Port and is there any Chinese participation in this admin/supervision?
The running of the port’s harbour marine-side operations is by SL Ports Authority, but all logistics (cargo loading/off-loading, ship crew servicing, ship servicing etc etc) is done on contract by a Chinese company which is a subsidiary of the giant, Hong Kong based China Merchants Group (which has similar and more complex operations all round the world). Port security is (in addition to Harbour Police) is maintained by a Navy troops unit while the Navy runs its own small naval base facility on one side of the harbour.
ALSO SEE http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=44680 … dated 9 December 2017 with Ranil Wickremasinghe in lead role
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