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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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Encirclement in Religious Practice & Deadly War Strike
Michael Roberts, inspired by interaction & dialogue with Douglas Farrer of the National University of Singapore in the years 2009 to 2014** VISIT 2012 “Encompassing Empowerment in Ritual, War & Assassination: Tantric Principles in Tamil Tiger Instrumentalities,” in Social Analysis, … 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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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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Leopard in House! Life in Lindula, Sri Lanka!
ITEM in Newswire.lk, …….. & Daily Mirror (?) https://www.newswire.lk/2022/08/05/leopard-falls-into-house-rescued-after-16-hrs-video/ A leopard has accidentally fallen into a house breaking through the roof in the Logi Estate Division in Lindula. According to the owner of the house, the incident had occurred at … 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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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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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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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 →
