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Beyond Imagination – Chandra Schaffter’s Life of Service
Ravi RUDRA has composed an extensive web-item describing Chandra Schaffter’s services to Sri Lanka, S. Thomas College, cricket, hockey, the Tamil Union CC’, insurance services in the island and humakind in general. The account includes photographs and is so extensive … Continue reading →
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Spats about Ports in Sri Lanka: The Bigger Picture
Mick Moore** To the extent that we can make any confident prophesies about world affairs in this very fragile current context, it is reasonable to predict that (a) global political, military, economic and ideological competition between China and the … Continue reading →
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Professor Allen Abraham: An Illustrious Son of Jaffna College … and His Predictions about the Halley’s comet
Logan Thurairatnam …. with highlighting in black being that from the author, while coloured highlights have been imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi April 14th, 1910 – Prof. Allen Abraham sighted the Halley’s Comet with his naked eye from his home … Continue reading →
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A Medico stirs the Graduand Law Students of Colombo University
Dr. Sarath Gamani De Silva’s Motivational speech to the law graduates of the University of Colombo ** The Venerable Chancellor, Madam Vice Chancellor, the Dean, Faculty of Law and the Deans of other Faculties, Professors, Lecturers and other tutorial staff, … Continue reading →
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Sinhala Village Roots and Jungle Lore at Discerning Depth
Sugath Kulatunga, responding to an Invitation from The Editor, Thuppahi after the latter had seen an extract of this detailed and invaluable autobiography in Facebook in 2023 ** 1/10/2014: Written for the reading pleasure of my grandchildren. As a child … Continue reading →
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Leonard Woolf’s Weliwewa Terrain: Gerald Peiris’s Profound Expertise
Michael Roberts I have sustained a friendship and interacted with Gerald Peiris from Ramanathan Hall days at Peradeniya University beginning in July 1957. The formal discussions organised at the Ceylon Studies Seminar from 1968-1975 on the one hand and, on … Continue reading →
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CJR Le Mesurier: A British Civil Servant who challenged the Imperial Order
Michael Powell: article published in 2007 and entitled “Fragile Identities: The Colonial Consequences of CJR Le Mesurier in Ceylon” ABSTRACT of Article: In the many layered life of CJR Le Mesurier in Ceylon are themes that repeat and recur throughout … Continue reading →
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The Assassination of SWRD Bandaranaike Revisited
Sanjiva Senanayake, in The Island, 17 October 2021, where the title reads “Beyond reasonable doubt? The Killing of a Prime Minister” Many people ‘know’ the conventional tale about the assassination of the Prime Minister of Ceylon, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, 62 years … Continue reading →
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Appreciating Sunil De Silva: Urbane Master of Many Trades
Hugh Karunanayake, in an Obituary Appreciation in THE CEYLANKAN, Vol XXIV/2, May 2021 ** My acquaintance with Sunil De Silva was mainly after he migrated to Australia in the early 1990s when I encountered him at a Sri Lanka Association … Continue reading →
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Australia’s Policy towards Sri Lankan Refugee Migrants after the Civil War
Judith Betts & Claire Higgins: “The Sri Lankan Civil War and Australia’s Migration Policy Response: A Historical Case Study with Contemporary Implications” …. an article pubd on 16th May 2017 …. see https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.181 ** Abstract: Sri Lanka’s civil war lasted almost 26 … Continue reading →
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