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Britain’s SAS Under Threat From HR Legal Beagles
Paul Wood: “The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights” … in The Spectator, magazine, 30 November 2024 The SAS are worried. Britain’s most elite military unit have come face to face with the IRA, the Taliban … Continue reading →
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Mahela to Aravinda Aiyya: An Open Letter of Admiration
Item in the Daily Mirror, 13 November 2023 …. with highlighting added by The Editor, Thuppahi Former Sri Lankan cricketer Mahela Jayawardena pays a heartfelt tribute to newly inducted ICC Hall of Famer Aravinda de Silva. Mahela expresses deep admiration … Continue reading →
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Danushka Gunathilaka’s Travails Over: Free to Cricket … so to speak
Lauren Ferri & Steve Zemek in The AUSTRALIAN, 29 September 2023, where the title reads ‘I’m happy that my life is normal again’: Cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka not guilty of sexual assault” .… with highlighting imposed b The Editor Thuppahi Sri … Continue reading →
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India throttle Sri Lanka in Riveting Cricket Match
Shashank Kishore in ESPNcricinfo, 27 July 2024 …. with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi India 213 for 7 (Suryakumar 58, Pant 49, Jaiswal 40, Pathirana 4-40) beat Sri Lanka 170 (Nissanka 79, Mendis 45, Parag 3-5, Arshdeep 2-24, Axar 2-38) by 43 … Continue reading →
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Introducing Tambiah’s 1992 Book: “Buddhism Betrayed?”
Item in Tamil Nation ……………………………………… https://tamilnation.org/books/eelam/buddhismbetrayed Given Buddhism’s presumed non-violent philosophy, how can committed Buddhist monks and laypersons in Sri Lanka today actively take part in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils? Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah’s Buddhism Betrayed? … Continue reading →
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Vale Felix Perumal: A Leader of Cricketing Men
Merril Gunaratne Standing from left: F.A. Fernando, A.T. Fonseka, V. Narendra, M. Guneratne, F. Burke, M. Siriwardene D. Rajaratnam … Seated from left: H.C. Perera, N. Weerasinghe, F. Perumal, B.A. Jayasinghe (President GSCA) Minister of Health E.L. Senanayake, E. L. … Continue reading →
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Devious Propaganda Guided by Geopolitical Positioning
An Honest Broker **Devious With regard to the Maldives piece, this article is propaganda: ………………….. https://thegeopolitics.com/navigating-the-geopolitical-waters-india-maldives-relations-in-a-shifting-global-landscape/ You cannot expect it to remain unchallenged. The article doesn’t contain a single piece of information that hasn’t been slanted in India’s favour, at … Continue reading →
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Bokku and Hara-Kiri sink Sri Lanka in Third ODI Match at Pallekele
Michael Roberts from the Outside without seeing Live Coverage Studying the CricInfo ball-by-ball reportage and the eventual surveys by BBB and Rex Clementine, it seems to me that the principal reasons why Sri Lanka lost were because of (A) Suryakumar … Continue reading →
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The Roberts Oral History Project, 1964-1969: Its Conception, Inception & Outcomes
Michael Roberts In re-establishing communication with two old Mertonians of the early 1960s generation at my College in Oxford, viz, Tony Roberton and Keith Shuttleworth, I have been induced to reflect upon my unusual circumstances as a postgraduate at Merton … Continue reading →
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Why the West is wrong to blame ISIS for the Crocus Terrorist Attack
An Observer in a Black Sea town ” The American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) assert Russia has no evidence to claim Ukraine was involved in the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall on 22 March 2024.” Actually, the Russians do … Continue reading →
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