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Alex Malcolm at ESPNcricinfo, 30 March 2026

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A NOTICE From Insaf Bakeer Markar, late March 2025

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ABC

In the gilded vacuum of a Miami ballroom last Friday, the world was treated to the latest episode of the “Trump Doctrine”—a volatile cocktail of schoolyard bullying, delusional revisionism, and a terrifyingly literal interpretation of “might makes right.“

As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its most chaotic phase, President Donald Trump took to the stage at a Saudi-backed forum to settle scores. He didn’t just boast about his influence; he humiliated a key regional ally, claiming that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is now “kissing my ass” because he finally realized the U.S. isn’t a “dead country.” It was a performance defined by a disturbing disconnect: even as Saudi facilities burn from retaliatory Iranian strikes, Trump is more interested in whether the 90-year-old King Salman “likes him” than in the stability of the global energy market.

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Senake Weeraratne

 The Reply of David Becker (Head of Legal, ICC) to Senaka Weeraratna was dismissive, disrespectful and patently wrong in the interpretation of law.

The reply of the South African lawyer David Becker (Head of Legal, ICC) to Senaka Weeraratna in May 2010 on the question of the intellectual property rights over his brainchild ‘Player Referral’ which was rebranded by the ICC as the UDRS (Umpire Decision Review System), was dismissive, disrespectful and patently wrong in the interpretation of law. The legal doctrine of Constructive Notice was overlooked in Becker’s response. Constructive Notice acts as a legal presumption that a person has received notice, even if they actually have not, provided the information is public or easily accessible. Furthermore Becker’s reply was legalistic when the context demanded equity, fair play and simple Justice.

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Desert Traveller, whose original title runs thus:  “The Gospel of “Bomb Diplomacy”: Trump, Hegseth, and the Death of the Global Order”

In the gilded vacuum of a Miami ballroom last Friday, the world was treated to the latest episode of the “Trump Doctrine”—a volatile cocktail of schoolyard bullying, delusional revisionism, and a terrifyingly literal interpretation of “might makes right.”

As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its most chaotic phase, President Donald Trump took to the stage at a Saudi-backed forum to settle scores. He didn’t just boast about his influence; he humiliated a key regional ally, claiming that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is now “kissing my ass” because he finally realized the U.S. isn’t a “dead country.” It was a performance defined by a disturbing disconnect: even as Saudi facilities burn from retaliatory Iranian strikes, Trump is more interested in whether the 90-year-old King Salman “likes him” than in the stability of the global energy market.

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ON 29th March Evening …

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Lakshman Gunasekera

If the “primary objective” was to have an alternative international scale runway and complementary aircraft facilities, either A’pura or Trinco or Jaffna or even Batti would have been far cheaper safety and passenger-serving options rather than building anew an abandoned British colonial makeshift runway which has absolutely no demographic-commercial hinterland but only the birds to disturb. All four airports mentioned above have been constantly in use (for military and/or civilian needs) ever since they were built unlike the “Mattala”.

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Nimal Dias Jayasinha in FACEBOOK

The tension in that Berlin Stadium was suffocating. Adolf Hitler sat watching, determined to use these games as proof of Aryan supremacy. Jesse Owens, already burdened by the weight of proving Black excellence to a hostile world, was crumbling under pressure.  Two fouls in the long jump preliminaries meant one more mistake would eliminate him before the finals even began.

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Avishka Mario Seneviratne, whoose chosen title when Fr Aloy passed away recently, reads thus: ….. “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒆𝒘: 𝑭𝒓. 𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒖𝒔 𝑷𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑺𝑱 (𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟒-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔)”

He was my spiritual father, mentor, teacher, and friend. Fr. Aloy welcomed me as a serious “scholar” when I was just a teenager. He taught me the scientific approach to scholarship, the discipline at the desk, and instilled in me values and morals. He showed me how to be a praying Christian and, above all, shaped my method of thinking. Without doubt, he made the greatest impact on my life.

                                                                 

𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡 𝐛𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐳 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒. 𝐆. 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲.

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Anonymous in The Examiner, 20 March 2026, where the title runs thus: “Why an Anandian should read THOMIA” ……… A review of Richard Simon’s Thomia, subtitled ‘the entangled history of Lanka and her greatest public school’. A history of failed promise and a requiem to Anglophone Lanka, Thomia traces the mighty currents, momentous events, and complex men who forged the fate of independent Sri Lanka.

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