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May 9, 2023 · 9:08 pm

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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August 7, 2025 · 9:15 pm

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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August 15, 2024 · 9:54 pm

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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September 13, 2026 · 6:01 pm

Confronting Violence: A Man Inspired …. Bishop Lakshman Wickremasinghe

Michael Roberts At a moment when the world is reflecting on the extreme impact of Zealotry via tales re NINE/ELEVEN,  a letter from Rajiva Wijesinha in Colombo reminded me of a fighter for peace and justice: namely Bishop Lakshman Wickremasinghe.  … Continue reading →

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December 26, 2024 · 11:34 am

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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August 8, 2022 · 8:24 pm

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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October 22, 2024 · 1:37 pm

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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April 17, 2026 · 12:47 am

Village Tank Cascades, the Great River Quartet and the Ditwah Cyclone

Lokubanda Tillakaratne  This past November and December, Ditwah showed us how dark, eerie, and haunting cyclones can be.  Past generations have suffered: per PWD records, in 1834, the Mahaweli rose 60 feet above its usual flood level at Gampola, and … Continue reading →

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October 31, 2022 · 1:37 pm

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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August 26, 2023 · 5:21 pm

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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