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Dutch Burghers and Portuguese Mechanics: Eurasian Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Dennis B. McGilvray, reproducing an essay presented in April 1982 within Comparative Studies in Society and History 24 (2): 235-263 –– an article that is wide-ranging and draws on ethnographic work as well as historical manuscripts. Note that the highlighting … Continue reading →
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Raina, A Lass From Lanka, at Sydney’s Pandemic Frontline
Helen Pitt, in Sydney Morning Herald, May 2020, where the title runs “Professor of Lankan descent now one of world’s top infectious disease specialists” Professor Raina MacIntyre, one of the world’s leading emerging infectious diseases experts, has barely budged from … Continue reading →
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Highlights of the Jesuit Era at St. Aloysius College, Galle
K. K. de Silva, as Compiler……. (at Sacred Heart Convent: 1943-44; then at SAC:1945 -1958; on Staff in 1959) … with highlighting being the work of The Editor, Thuppahi Introduction St. Aloysius College & St. Mary’s Cathedral stand together on … Continue reading →
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Sri Lankan Pageant in Los Angeles
Nandasiri (Nandi) Jasentuliyana, in Sunday Times, 24 August 2019 …. with pictorial illustrations due to Moran Perera When the annual Sri Lanka Day was celebrated in the historic city of Pasadena this year, Sri Lanka took its rightful place among … Continue reading →
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Sweeping the Accounting World: These Jaffna People
Jekhan Aruliah, in LankaBusinessOnline, 19 March 2020, with this title “BBK Partnership, Jaffna’s Accountants to the World” I first heard of the BBK Partnership Sri Lanka in 2015. I first spoke with its co-founder Anandan Arnold in 2018, and finally met him … Continue reading →
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Irangani Serasinghe: A Beacon for Her Times …. Versatility Unconfined
Madapatha Uditha, in The Island, 17/18 June 2020, with this title “Searching for Irangani” …. while highlighting is an imposition from The Editor, Thuppahi Irangani Serasinghe turned 93 on Tuesday, June 9 If the reputations of actors can be compared … Continue reading →
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The Democratization Process in Ceylon, 1832-1948
Michael Roberts: “The Democratization Process in Sri Lanka,” being the text of an Illustrated Lecture on Video presented to The May 18 Memorial Foundation in Korea in early September 2020 …. as part of a series encompassing several countries — … Continue reading →
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Facing Coronavid: Gota’s Middling Performance
Rajeewa Jayaweera, in Island, 5 April 2020, whose chosen title is “Empower the President to manage COVID-19″ A sizable percentage, if not the majority of the country’s intelligentsia, opposed Gotabaya Rajapaksa‘s candidacy for the Presidency. The former Secretary Defense and, … Continue reading →
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No Duty of Care: Cricket in the 1970s-and-Before
Michael Roberts A =Phil Hughes being transported from field, 25 November 2014 B = Duleep Mendis carried to pavilion on 11th June 1975
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Cricketing Talent Denied: Derelict in the Jaffna Peninsula, 1980s Onward
Andrew Fidel Fernando, in The Cricket Monthly at ESPN, in 2014, where the title is “The lost boys of Jaffna” … [with two ‘contemporary’ Pix added by the Editor, and some highlighting of the text imposed ….. Thuppahi] Amid the gunshots and … Continue reading →
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