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Dr. Enakshi Sinniah Reaches Young Noble Laureate Heights

An University of Queensland News Communication, 23 March 2023 with this title “UQ researchers selected to attend 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting” Two University of Queensland researchers have been selected to attend the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany in June. … Continue reading

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Cricket Dirty Cricket

Michael Roberts, reproducing an article written in early December 2003 and presented with the same title in Roberts, Essaying Cricket. Sri Lanka and Beyond, Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publishers, 2006, pp 107-111 …. with the title inspired by Lord Superior aka … Continue reading

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Territorial Claims: First Settlers & Their Primacy

Michael Roberts, presenting an article published in 2005 as a pamphlet by the ICES, Colombo with this title “The First Settlers and Their Claim to Ownership of Terrain/State. A Comparative Excursion” … an essay originally presented in Abdul Rahman Embong, Rethinking … Continue reading

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 Yasodhara Kumaratunga: “A Butterfly’s Wise Words”

YASODHARA’s Handwritten Inscription on the Cover Page of the  pamphlet in my hands …. courtesy of the copy held by my  late departed sister, Estelle Fernando  To ….My dearest Aunty Estelle, Thank you for starting me off on my long … Continue reading

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Intricate Ivory Artefacts in Ancient and Medieval Lanka

Premila Thurairatnam, whose article in The CEYLANKAN May 2024 Issue is entitled ”Ceylon Ivory” In Ceylon, ivory was used in carving as early as the 2nd century CE or earlier1. Descriptions of Lanka in the epic Ramayana refer to ivory-embellished … Continue reading

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Kingdom Australis! A Mosaic of Extraordinary Landscapes

Original Title reads: “Australian Specials: A Mosaic of Extraordinary Features” In case you’ve forgotten, we are special aren’t we? … says a Dinky-die Aussie The Australian Alps get more snow than the Swiss Alps. 90% of Australians live on the … Continue reading

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For Cricket. At Providence in Guyana

Danny Byrne, whose chosen title reads “Test Match cricket returns to Guyana after 13 years. The days before the Second Test between West Indies and South Africa.” We left Georgetown at 03.30 am in an ordinary car packed full of … Continue reading

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The Flinders Ranges in Australia: A Marvellous Place bidding for World Heritage Listing

David Penberthy in The Australian – “World recognition coming into view for the Flinders Ranges”  It is one of the most ancient and fossil-rich places on earth, its centrepiece the gigantic Wilpena Pound basin, its towering gums the inspiration for … Continue reading

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The Tsunami Twenty Years After

Padraig O’Leary writing from the vicinity of Colombo now Twenty Years after the Tsunami Did the children and I come to you when the waves came? Were the kids there with you when death came? In eternity, do you want … Continue reading

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Is Prabakaran NOT a Hitler! …. Goodness Gracious Me!

Shenali D. Waduge, whose slashing sarcastic essay is entitled “Let’s Celebrate Prabakaran & the LTTE’s Glorious Achievements!”  … with the highlighting being that in  the original item A tribute to the world’s most misunderstood mass murderer and his liberation-through-terror campaign. … Continue reading

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