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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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The Epitome of “EVIL” … Today’s Soulmates with Hitler
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 … 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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Leopards in Sri Lanka: Good Prospects
WWCT in Daily Mirror, 22 August 2023 … with this title “The Leopard – An Ideal Conservation Umbrella Lankan Leopards. A Symbol of Hope” The Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) – IUCN Status: Vulnerable. Estimated range loss (2016): 63% … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Jungles: Many Attractions & Curiousities
Jayantha Jayewardene, in The Island, 20 February 2022, where the ttile runs thus “The lure and the lore of our jungles” ** Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, and even before that as Serendib and Taprobane, has different types of … Continue reading →
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Canada’s Muddled Pro-Tamil & Pro-Tamil Tiger Policies Remain
Padma Rao Sundarji, in Asian Age, 29 September 2023 where the title reads “Two-faced Canada is on a re-run of its LTTE policy” https://www.asianage.com/opinion/columnists/280923/padma-rao-sundarji-two-faced-canada-is-on-a-re-run-of-its-ltte-policy.html Is India guilty of assassinating a terrorist in Canada? At least to one of India’s neighbours, … Continue reading →
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Helping Disabled Children in Sri Lanka: VACD’s Philanthropic Outreach from Australia
An Item circulated by Felix Stephen of Melbourne, with the heading “Their Future in Our Hands” …. being the VACD Australia & Sri Lanka July & August 2024 Newsletter …… “When we give alms with our hearts, we give well” Dear … Continue reading →
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A Meeting of Cultures: The Unique Vernacular Chapel at Trinity College, Kandy
Ranil Bibile … reproducing an old essay without all its pictorial embellishments because the author does not have the original photos in his computer “as .jpegs as the articles were composed 20+ years ago and there have been many computer changes … Continue reading →
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Saving a Baby Elk: A Sri Lanka Navy Mission
A Tale now Etched within the latest Newsletter of the Australia-Sri Lanka Association of Adelaide edited by Moira Djukanovic
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Charles Dickens and Ceylon
Raja Bandaranayake, in THE CEYLANKAN vol 26/3, August 2023, where the title runs “Charles Dickens on Ceylon” Introduction: An anthology by Charles Dickens entitled Sunshine on Daily Paths (or the Revelation of Beauty and Wonder in Common Things,1 picked up in an … Continue reading →
