Item in The Island, 25 October 2024... with a different title
The distinguished old boy of Trinity College, Kandy, Ahmed Mahir Didi, recently donated Rs. 5 million for the College Chapel Restoration Project. He is a Maldivian national, now based in the Seychelles and is a well-known businessman engaged in tourism.
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Michael Roberts
The Thuppahi item on the turtle nursey at Rekawa along the southern coast of Sri Lanka …… https://thuppahis.com/2024/10/24/the-turtle-nursery-at-rekawa-in-southern-sri-lanka/#more-85722 …… has revived two inspiring ‘moments’ when I had ‘brushes’ with a turtle. Both indelible experiences which are etched in my mind’s pictorial eye took place at the Unawatuna beach about four miles east of Galle town – a popular tourist beach on the other side of the Buona Vista peninsula that constitutes the eastern ‘front’ of Galle harbour.
Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPNcricinfo, 23 October 2024, where the title reads “Hasaranga and Theekshana spin West Indies out and seal Sri Lanka series win”
Rutherford and Motie put on a WI record ninth-wicket stand but it was in vain.
Theekshana celebrates …
Mote and Alzarri Joseph struck once apiece inside the powerplay. Aside from these stretches of dominance though, Sri Lanka ran away with the game.
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Risidra Mendis, in Ceylon Today, 19 October 2024 where the title runs thus: “A world without turtles is a world less beautiful”
Far from the hustle and bustle of city life and nestled along the Southern Coast of Sri Lanka is a place of natural beauty and tranquility. The clear blue water and the sounds of the waves, the breathtaking sunrise and the unforgettable sunset over the Indian ocean. This is the Rekawa beach where nature can be experienced at its best.
‘Yesteryear’ — A Sri Lankan Migrant
A = Support for Palestine in Raleigh North Carolina City Council ... when North Carolina is classed as a ‘conservative’ state!
Another articulate and brave young lady who reflects the changing face in the multi-ethnic urban zones of America with the younger demographic more independent, rebellious and skilled in the art of critical thinking.
https://www.tiktok.com/@nancyr0033/video/7381072938595781919?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
Raleigh City, North Carolina ……… Population in 2023: 482,000
Population demographics by race:
White – 55.5%
Black or African American – 28.1%
Hispanic or Latino – 11.6%
Asian & Other – 4.5%
Foreign born persons – 13%
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Also worth listening to the anguished voice of this Jewish American lady…. Elena Stein is the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor: https://youtube.com/shorts/–lF7bOLEs8?si=Np7bfs1XQM8gEZBb…..Stop arming Israel and stop profiting from genocide
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Brian Victoria
In an increasingly secular world, calling someone or something “evil” will seem to many as an anachronistic label, conjuring up as it does a reddish figure featuring a fiendish face and horns, pitchfork in hand, with wings and a tail. A truly dreadful and fearsome sight indeed!
Christians have traditionally viewed evil as a rebellion against God, embodied in the figure of “Satan” (aka Devil). Satan was identified as the cause of all suffering in the world. Further, it was Satan’s fall from Heaven that illustrated the cosmic battle between good (God) and evil (Satan). As such, Satan existed as a malevolent force outside of ourselves, constantly attempting to entice us to accede to his wicked ways.
By comparison, in contemporary thought, evil is examined through psychological, social, and cultural lenses. Thus, evil can arise from one’s own psychological disorders, group dynamics or the sociopolitical/socioeconomic systems under which we live. No longer is it seen as a metaphysical or malevolent moral force lying outside of ourselves.
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Edward Tew, in The Sunday Times, 7 July 2024,where the title runs this: “Farewell to the Tory clown show, a true satirist’s dream”
For the last six years I’ve been engaged in a secret love affair with Jacob Rees-Mogg. This may be news to him, considering we’ve never met, but I’ve fantasised about him being given a sponge bath by his nanny, pushing women and children off the Titanic on his way to a lifeboat, as an object on Antiques Roadshow and even poking his “plonker” through a suet pudding for his premium OnlyFans customers. I’m not a pervert, I’m a satirist.
AUTHOR unknown –– An Item sent by Nandi Jasentuliyana — Ex-Richmond College and long resident in USA
This documentary is by Beena Sarwar….. https://www.dawn.com/news/1864914
“There is a fine line between order and chaos. Its tenuous separation lies at the heart of the grand cycle of oppositional linkages in myth and history, in which fate, humans and nature seek a way out of the turbulence to which they may well have themselves contributed.
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Darshanie Ratnawalli, in The Island, October 2024 ... where the title reads ”The recent IMF visit and the new ‘economic team’
A new economic team, representing SL has gone into a meeting with the IMF. A President Media Division release dated October 2, 2024, says that the IMF visit was to hold discussions on the progress of the IMF programme and the release of the fourth tranche and that the following “economic team” has been appointed by the new government for discussions with the IMF.
This is the team –Anil Jayantha, Chair of the NPP Economic Policy Council & Senior Advisor to the President on Economic Affairs & Finance, Duminda Hulangamuwa, Senior Advisor to the President, Sunil Handunnetti, JVP Politician, Seetha Bandara Ranathunga, Sunil Gamage, Nandasiri Keembiyahetti, O. G. Dayaratne Banda and Amarasena Athukorala.
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