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The Will to Win in Australian Cricket. Outcomes
Michael Roberts Australian cricket mirrors Australian sporting culture in that it is marked by a relentless will to win. At the highest level of Australian cricket in recent years it has generated several outcomes. I summarize these consequences in haphazard … Continue reading →
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Victor Ivan’s Contentions on the Present Crisis: Two Essays
ONE: “The present crisis is likely to end up in a serious disaster,” in Of the Executive Presidents who ruled the country prior to Maithripala Sirisena, J.R. Jayewardene and Mahinda Rajapaksa can be described as those who mostly and increasingly … Continue reading →
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A Mountain to Die For: Nanga Parbat
AFP Item in DAWN, 1 February 2018, where the title is “Tomasz Mackiewicz: the free spirit in love with ‘killer mountain’ Nanga Parbat” Polish mountaineer Tomasz Mackiewicz, whom France’s Elisabeth Revol was forced to leave behind weak and bleeding on a Himalayan … Continue reading →
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Hai Hoyi … Baila Natamu! Sri Lankan Baila
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, in The Island, 2 May 2014 The extraordinary love of the Portuguese for music is epitomised at El Ksar el Kabir in Morocco, 1578, where 10,000 guitars lay on the battlefield, near the dead Portuguese soldiers. … Continue reading →
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In Appreciation of My Talented Sister, Audrey
Michael Roberts, courtesy of the Sunday Times, 1 April 2018, where the title is “Snapshots of a life lived to the full” My sister Audrey Roberts passed away in Oxford in February, a little before her 84th birthday. A divorcee, … Continue reading →
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Woollacott’s Insight in 1976: Tamils set for Guerilla War and Secession
In sorting through my papers I came across a news cutting that is historically significant. Here was one occasion where a visiting journalist deciphered a developing scenario correctly. That I retained the clipping in papers relating to an article I … Continue reading →
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Rivetting Data on the Jaffna Peninsula and Tamil Politics, 1929-1970s
Handy Perinbanayagam This is a reproduction of COMMENTS in a previous Thuppahi Item from 2012 — which presented an article by Rajan Philips in the Sunday Island of 26 February 2012. This unusual step is taken because the information therein: … Continue reading →
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Escaping to Sri Lanka on Holiday
Mal Chenu in Sunday Mail, 15 April 2018 ….. where the title runs “Why Aussies love Sri Lanka Right Now” Venetian adventurer Marco Polo described Sri Lanka as “the finest island of its size in all the world”. Sure, that … Continue reading →
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KG Amaradasa: Tamil Literary Scholar and Man of Vision
L. Murugapoopathy, in Colombo Telegraph, 12 May 2018, where the title runs “Memories Of Late K.G Amaradasa – An Ardent Tamil Literary Lover & Advocate For National Unity” “Some might say that if a Sinhala man marries a Tamil woman … Continue reading →
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Fake News from the BBC
Nupur J. Sharma, in Independent, 15 November 2018 where the title is “The BBC research on ‘fake news’ is shoddy, unethical, dishonest, and actually an example of fake news” The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has published a report [pdf] that … Continue reading →
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