May 22, 2025 · 12:39 pm

Recuperation: For the Tamil Tiger POWs

Air Commodore Vajira Senadheera, 18 February 2025, whose chosen title for this article is “Firsthand Insights into Sri Lanka’s Rehabilitation of Ex-LTTE Combatants: A Sri Lankan Experience for Global Application – Analysis”….. Source: https://www.eurasiareview.com/18022025-firsthand-insights-into-sri-lankas-rehabilition-of-ex-ltte-combatants-a-sri-lankan-experience-for-global-application-analysis/ .… NB: some photos recalcitrant

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May 21, 2025 · 7:06 pm

The Sri Lankan Cricketers Playing in IPL 2025

Michael Roberts 

EIGHT Sri Lankan cricketers have found spots in the IPL teams in 2025; BUT not all of them have taken the field regularly or gained prominence. The ones who have made their mark in varying degrees are Kamindu Mendis for the Sunrisers Hyderabad and Matheesha Pathirana for the Chennai Super Kings.

Apart from his display of ambidextrous bowling, Kamindu Mendis took two outstanding catches in two different matches. See this item by Nicholas Brookes  … ttps://thuppahis.com/2024/10/09/kamindu-mendis-leaps-unto-the-world-cricket-stage/ ….. as well as the special You Tube feature tacked on below. Whst a mark to make for Richmond College in Galle and for the Lankan cricket world ….. https://www.google.com/search?q=FLYING+CATACHAT+IPL+by+Mendis&rlz=1C1ONGR_en-GBAU957AU957&oq=FLYING+CATACHAT

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May 19, 2025 · 6:17 pm

No Guts: Lanka’s Armed Forces Gutted by Gutless Governments

Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, 19 May 2025, where the title runs thus: “Accountability issues: Successive govts. failed armed forces: Shavendra” …. with the  further byline title : “US, UK sanctions effectively prevented me from travelling to other countries as well”

 Former GOC of the 58 Division General Shavendra Silva yesterday (18) found fault with successive governments since 2009 for failing to counter unsubstantiated war crimes accusations. The failure on the part of them led to punitive international measures against senior officers who spearheaded the offensive against the LTTE, the Gajaba veteran said.

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Sri Lanka’s outgoing army chief Shavendra Silva salutes during his farewell ceremony at the military headquarters in Colombo on May 31, 2022. –photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA/AFP) (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)

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May 18, 2025 · 1:03 pm

China’s Weight in the Present World Order

Jeffrey Sachs & Glenn Diesen in You Tube Discussion

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, a best-selling author, an innovative educator, and a global leader in sustainable development. Prof. Sachs discusses the wider historical meaning of the current economic war between the US and China, which represents the end of centuries of a Western-centric world. Prof. Sachs also discusses how and why the Western geopolitical mindset is distinctively different from that of China. Follow Prof. Glenn Diesen: Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/Glenn_DiesenPatreon:   / glenndiesen  

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May 18, 2025 · 1:25 am

The Fallen: A Poem of Remembrance from Shirani

Shirani Rajapakse in Facebook, May 2025

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A few years after the conflict ended in 2009 the military was preparing to celebrate War Heros Day at Galle Face. Several roads in Colombo were blocked and traffic diverted as they were preparing for the event. Someone, who’s not on my friend list anymore, ranted on her wall about how inconvenient it was, and that the government should stop celebrating the war victory. Many of her friends applauded her and voiced similar sentiments. That rant inspired this poem which I later included in Fallen Leaves.

 

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May 17, 2025 · 9:21 pm

Grant Stewart: A Roaming, Bashing Cricketer … Aussie, Italy, Kent in England

Item in ESPNcricninfo

Grant Stewart …. Italy|Bowling Allrounder …. INTL CAREER: 2021 – 2023
Grant Stewart
Full Name:  Grant Stewart

Born: February 19, 1994, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Age: 31y 87d

Batting Style:  Right hand Bat

Bowling Style: Right arm Medium fast

Playing Role: Bowling Allrounder

Fast-bowling all-rounder Grant Stewart signed his first professional contract for Kent in 2017 after his 2nd XI form promised he could alleviate the county’s shortage of pace bowlers. Australian-born Stewart is not classed as an overseas player as he has an EU passport through his Italian mother. A qualified civil engineer, who grew up in New South Wales, he made his first-class debut as a bowling allrounder in the final game of the 2017 Championship season.

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May 16, 2025 · 9:20 pm

Mohan Munasinghe secures a Noble Prize …. Congrats Man

ITEM in Facebook, 16 May 2025

Nobel Prize Winner #SriLankan Prof. Mohan Munasinghe 🇱🇰 is one of the most eminent gentlemen in the world and World-Class Sri Lankans will attempt to tell you a little bit about this humble Sri Lankan.
Educated at Royal College and an undergraduate of the Engineering Faculty at Peradeniya University, Munasinghe not only effortlessly passed his BA (Hons.) and MA degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University, but sailed through his Professional degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

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May 16, 2025 · 8:54 pm

Democracy at the Grass-roots: Sri Lanka’s 2025 Local Government Elections

Jehan Perera in Facebook, 16 May 2025

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May 16, 2025 · 2:35 pm

Incisive Reflections on Sri Lanka’s Political History, 1930s et seq

Chandre Dharmawardena’s Comments in a Thuppahi Post, 9 January 2025 … comments mistakenly attributed to a “Thoughtfully Pink”**

Sowell’s analysis is the typical simplistic analysis that puts all the blame on SWRD’s 1956 government.

Sowell’s analysis encapsulates the simplistic approach to the Sri Lankan ethnic problem favoured by western analyists, “Human-Rights” writers, and also by some academic writers of Sri Lankan origin. They put the whole blame on SWRD’s “opportunism”, his Sinhala Language policy, and single him out, whereas the seeds of the conflict had been sown much earlier [see Dr. Jane Russell’s book on Communal politics under the Donoughmore Constitution (1982)]. Populism in politics was fashionable in the 1930s in Europe and also in Sri Lanka (both SWRD and GG Ponnambalam had been labeled “pocket Hitlers” by their respective admiring followers, at a time when Hitler was viewed as a model of a politician who stood to support his ethnic group.

        Chelva and Tamil politcoes in protest action at Galle Face Green

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May 16, 2025 · 12:03 am

Pursuing PATHS of Peace in Today’s World — Sachs

Friends,  …… On June 10, 2025 the 62nd anniversary of President Kennedy’s all important speech on world peace, Professor Jeffrey Sachs will be the commentator for the JFK Peace Speech Committee Webinar.  Below is the ad with an embedded link to register for the event.  The session will be recorded.  If you register you will receive a link to the recording of the event even if you aren’t able to attend.  Please register and share this with all who might be interested.

Best wishes,
Martin Schotz
Coordinator, JFk Peace Speech Committee

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