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Family Research straddling Cairns, Lanka & the World: Larry Andresen
Over the last 12 months, researchers and visitors at the Cairns and District Family History Centre would have seen a sprightly, bespectacled, grey haired gentleman, peering intently into the microfilm reader screen. He is busily transcribing films that have nothing … Continue reading →
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Schooling the Deaf & Blind in Sri Lanka: A Story of Many Marvels
Sanchita Wickremasooriya, in Sunday Times, 30 April 2023, where the title is “The Seeing Hands, The Listening Eyes! An account of The School for the Deaf and Blind, Ratmalana”… with highlighting being the imposition by The Editor, Thuppahi Have you … Continue reading →
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Hassina Leelarathna: In Action, In Words And In Commemoration
LT Times, November 2021 Hassina Leelarathna, a co-founder of the only Sri Lankan newspaper in the U.S. and an activist who spurred fellow immigrants to help when disasters struck their homeland, has died at age 73. Leelarathna died in Sherman … Continue reading →
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Tamil Women at War as ‘Birds of Freedom’ in the LTTE Cause
Vindhya Buthpitiya: “How to Capture Birds of Freedom: Picturing Tamil Women at War,” Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1) … derived from ………………………………………… https://doi.org/10.1215/21582025-10365016 … with the aid of my Aloysian mate KK De Silva; whilr the highlighting is my imposition. … Continue reading →
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Lakshman’s Hambantota Diarrhoeas
Lakshman Gunasekara … with highlights being the intrusion of The Editor, Thuppahi I recall reading both these articles,[1] or at least parts of these articles just a few weeks ago sent by you. 1) China:- I am an admirer of China (just … Continue reading →
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Anne Frank: A Dutch Girl whom the Nazis Exterminated …. But Her Diary Lives
Bart Von Es, in The Guardian, 25 May 2019, where the title runs “Anne Frank: the real story of the girl behind the diary” Albert Gomes de Mesquita is one of the last people alive to have known Anne Frank … Continue reading →
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Standing Forth as Ceylonese in the Early 19th Century
Michael Roberts …. presenting the first section in Chapter X of People Inbetween (1989) pp 140-47. … The chapter is entitled “Standing Forth as Ceylonese, 1850s” *++* Introduction We need to begin by reaching back into the Maritime Provinces of … Continue reading →
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Memories of Peradeniya University Campus Sparked by A Visit in 2012
Rex Olegasegaram, whose favöured title runs thus: “Peradeniya Campus – A Visit Down Memory Lane In November, 2012 when I drove into the Peradeniya University along with my wife Navaranjini, it was indeed a wonderful visit down memory lane covering … Continue reading →
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Designing Peradeniya Campus
Thuppahi’s recent presentation of a striking photograph unearthed by Gerald Peiris which depicts world-famous dignitaries on their way to formally declare the University of Peradeniya open for the business of study and play has attracted pleasure as well as information … Continue reading →
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The Lineage “Hoolsema” – Nazi Europe to Sydney
Michael Roberts My story here begins in Colombo in mid-2020 where I stubbed by big toe badly as I walked into the National Archives. The injury turned septic; and I was treated … I would say rescued …. by a … Continue reading →
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