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October 6, 2019 · 10:55 am

That Nightmare Moment: Farbrace and Bayliss give BBC A Detailed Account of the Lahore Assault, 3rd March 2009

On the 3rd March 2019 the BBC took the heady step of interviewing the longstanding management team of Trevor Bayliss and Paul Farbrace about their nightmare-experiences at the roundabout approaching Gaddafi Stadium in Karachi from 8.39 am on 3rd March … Continue reading →

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September 29, 2019 · 11:14 am

PK Balachandran’s Evaluation of Presidential Stakes: Sajith vs Gota and the Implications

PK Balachandran, in Sunday Island, 20 September 2019, with this title “What’s in store for Lankans with Sajith and Gotabaya vying for the Presidency?” On Thursday, after a month-long bitter inner-party struggle, Sajith Premadasa was nominated as the ruling United … Continue reading →

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December 21, 2019 · 9:48 am

Sri Lanka’s Non-Alignment Today in the Midst of China-US Tussles

Asoka Amaratunga, from The Island, 13 December 2019, where the title runs“Non-alignment relating to Chinese and US aid” ….. with emphasis being the work of The Editor, Thuppahi Map & Scheme from Hariharan article cited below First let us take … Continue reading →

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March 18, 2020 · 6:57 am

Facing Corona Foursquare: An Aussie Comprehensive

Sheryn Groch, in Sydney Morning Herald, 18 March 2020, “How are countries ‘flattening the curve’ of coronavirus?” …. https://www.smh.com.au/national/how-are-countries-flattening-the-curve-of-coronavirus-20200317-p54b3g.html Large parts of the world are shutting down to stem the spread of a new virus. What measures are working? And … Continue reading →

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August 26, 2019 · 9:10 am

Sri Lanka’s Prejudiced and Petty Rulers

Rifat Halim in LankaWeb, 22 August 2019, in http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2019/08/22/three-idiots-and-a-blind-woman/ Three Idiots is a classic Hindi movie that features a group of morons. Sri Lanka has gone one step further by producing three modayas and a blind woman in real life. Future historians … Continue reading →

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October 2, 2019 · 1:49 am

Michael De Zoysa: A Man to have beside You” — so say Ranjan, Rex and Sa’adi

ONE = RANJAN PARANAVITHANA in Facebook Sad news…! It is the time to say good bye to a legend on Sri Lanka Cricket… Former Sri Lanka team manager, Expert on the tea industry., Live wire of SSC cricket.., Commentator, Curator, … Continue reading →

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August 20, 2019 · 5:34 pm

UN Aid Workers in the Crucible of War, 1989-92: William Clarance’s Fascinating Account

Michael Roberts, in SOUTH ASIA¸ Sept 2008, 31: 394-96 reviewing Ethnic Warfare in Sri Lanka and the UN Crisis (London: Pluto Press, and Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2007), 296 pp. This is an unusual book and essential reading for those … Continue reading →

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January 24, 2019 · 8:51 am

Jim Corbett National Park in Northern India

Jim Corbett National Park, India …. Known as Hailey National Park when it was first established in 1936, this nature reserve in northern India was renamed in honour of Jim Corbett. A British hunter who felled many Bengal tigers and … Continue reading →

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August 16, 2019 · 3:56 pm

A Populist Strongman in the Wings in Sri Lanka

M. R. Bhadrakumar in Indian Punchline, 12 August 2019, where the title runs “The return of the strongman in Sri Lanka”The announcement in Colombo on Sunday by former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa that his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be his party … Continue reading →

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July 31, 2019 · 5:45 pm

Gifts to Lanka: China pats itself on the Head

Cheng Xueyuan, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Sri Lanka, in Sri Lanka Güardian, July 2019, where the title is “Chinese military is actively providing more and more international public safety products August 1st 1927 was the founding … Continue reading →

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