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Offensive Racist Place-Names face Offensive

A News Item in Australia, Today, February 2025 In short: The Queensland government has identified 43 place names with racist slurs and a Darumbal elder wants them changed immediately. The state amended legislation in April so racist place names could be … Continue reading

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Bloody Lawyers!  Our Necessary Curse! …. Apoyi….Apoyi

Chamila Talagala in Facebook  They say Sri Lankans hate lawyers. But that hatred is not simple. It is older than the island’s courts, older even than the black coats and the Latin phrases. It is the bitterness people feel toward … Continue reading

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Hard Yards in Medical Learning at Colombo University in the 1960s

Dr Nihal D Amerasekera, in The Island, 6 July 2025, …where the title reads  “Going through Colombo Medical School” … with highlighting emphasis imposed y ThE Editor, Thuppahi Some real-life experiences:  I am looking at the events of the 20th … Continue reading

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A Sri Lankan Author’s Work …”Offerings to a Blue God”

Offerings to the Blue God by Shirani Rajapakse Synopsis: A child saved from the tsunami finds herself trapped as a domestic slave, a young woman finds out the true face of her lover when she builds up the courage to visit … Continue reading

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Mehdi Hasan’s U-Tube Interview with Ranil Wickremasinghe

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa, in Groundviews, …. https://groundviews.org/2025/03/07/sentiment-analysis-of-ranil-wickremesinghes-al-jazeera-interview-with-mehdi-hasan/ Renowned journalist Mehdi Hasan interviewed the former president Ranil Wickremesinghe on a programme of Head to Head, produced by Al Jazeera. The programme was released to YouTube and first broadcast on March 6. … Continue reading

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Remembering Lasantha Wickrematunge’s Assassination

Posters being pasted in Colombo and suburbs yesterday to mark the 15 years since the murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge which falls today.   Today marks 15 years since the brutal murder of iconic journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge with none brought to justice. … Continue reading

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An Epitaph For Lasantha Wickrematunge

Sabanayagam Varagunam in Daily Mirror, 8 January 2024, where the title reads “Lasantha Wickrematunge: A National Hero’s Enduring Legacy” … with highlighting here being the imprint of The Editor, Thuppahi Wickrematunge’s courage was not merely a product of his profession; … Continue reading

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Kandy ‘Swamped’ by Waste

Chaturanga P Samarasinghe, in Daily Mirror Online, 1 July 2025, where the title reads thus: “Kandy’s dirty pretty things”

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Sharika Thiranagama in Profound Q & A on Sri Lanka’s Traumatic Past

Kaniyan Pungundran – Editor-in-Chief of Jaffna Monitor ….September 2025 … ..where the title runs thus: “JVP Still Denies the Tamil Ethnic Question: Sharika Thiranagama Speaks to Jaffna Monitor” It feels like yesterday. As a student, I remember flipping through Amuthu, … Continue reading

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A Critique of AKD’s Speech at the United Nations

ASIA PROGRESS FORUM in The Island, 5 October 2025 President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka’s recent speech at the UN General Assembly, while outwardly progressive in tone, reveals a troubling lack of structural analysis. His framing of global crises, identifying poverty, narcotics, … Continue reading

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