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Ernest MacIntyre: So Vital to Sri Lanka’s Theatrical History
Laleen Jayamanne, in The Island, 21 January 2026, where the title runs thus “Remembering Ernest MacIntyre’s Contribution to Modern Lankan Theatre & Drama” … with pictorial reproductions here being facilitated by David Sansoni of Sydney & KK De Silva in Colombo … Continue reading →
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Ernest MacIntryre: Profound Theatrical Memories
Laleen Jayamanne: “Humour and the Creation of Community: Remembering Ernest MacIntyre’s Contribution to Modern Lankan Theatre & Drama” “As melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness, so humour is comedy that has lost its bodily weight”. Italo Calvino on ‘Lightness’ … Continue reading →
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Sinhala Monarchical Imagery in Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Past Political Pitch
Michael Roberts .… reproducing an article presented earlier in the COLOMBO TELEGRAPH in the year 2012…. an article bearing a different title: viz. “Populism And Sinhala-Kingship in the Rajapaksa Regime’s Political Pitch” … an article that also appeared under a … Continue reading →
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Fermenting Divisions, Favouring the Mighty … in the North & the East of Lanka
Tisaranee Gunasekara in Financial Times 2 April 2025 …. where the title reads “Cauldron-stirring time, again?” … while the highlighting is the work of The Editor, Thuppahi [with a caveat noted at the end of this presentation] “Double, double, toil and … Continue reading →
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Intertwining Pathways in Past Lanka Time …. A Tale. A Tale
Synopsis by the Publishers In the month of 11 in the year 2048 of the Buddhist era, how many people knew that the South of Lanka would face a deadly cyclone which would change the entire history of the country. … Continue reading →
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British Ceylon Through A Family Lens 1850-1950
Prof Naren Chitty …. an article in THE CEYLANKAN vol 27/4 November 2024 Introduction British Governors relied on mostly unsalaried Mudaliyars (leaders) from select families who exchanged service for land grants.[1] Educated in public schools Mudaliyars’ Anglophile sons increasingly inhabited … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka Edge Zimbabwe in ODI Thriller at Colombo, 8th January
With Sri Lanka playing Zimbabwe in their Third 20-over ODI at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo today, I place Andrew’s delayed report on the Second ODI played on January 7th(?)…. one taken from ESPNcricinfo and presented with highlights added.” …. … Continue reading →
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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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Snap! A Classic ‘Catch’ of a Classic Catch
This photographic snap is a classic because of the frozen imagery of all involved! It must surely outdo that of Bradman on the ground having tea (https://thuppahis.com/2022/11/21/mid-pitch-tea-for-don-bradman-12-others/).
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Remembering Revd WJT Small, A Saint In Our Times
Nihal de Alwis, presenting a Memoir on Revd Small, the dedicated Principal of Richmond who became a Ceylonese …. Rev. Walter Joseph Thombleson Small was born on the 4th of July 1883 in Boston, England. He lived in Sri Lanka … Continue reading →
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