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August 30, 2025 · 7:16 pm

A Pulsating Cricket Match capped with A Final Over Hat-Trick

Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPNcricinfo, 29  August 2025, where the title reads “Madushanka seals thriller with last-over hat-trick” Raza had valiantly revived Zimbabwe’s chase through the middle overs but he could not take them over the line ……. Sri Lanka 298 … Continue reading →

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September 30, 2025 · 1:31 am

Cold War Machinations in the Past: Allende & Bandaranaike

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose chosen title is “The Cold War Killing of Ceylon’s Bandaranaike and Chile’s Allende: ‘Operation Colombo’, Culture War and the Disinformation Game” Decolonizing Global South History and WOKE Film  Rithika Kodithuwakku as a Tamil Sakkili Woman in Asoka Handagama’s … Continue reading →

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July 15, 2025 · 11:37 am

Biographical Paths in Sri Lankan History … via Hits in Thuppahi  

A NOTE from Michael Roberts, 15 July 2025 Biographical tales are one of the paths in historical investigation.  Such tales attract many readers because they flesh out lifeways and resonate with personal recollections. The WORD PRESS website provides the Thuppahi-Editor … Continue reading →

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August 21, 2026 · 1:54 am

The Remarkable Sangakkara Investment in a Mansion Within Galle Fort

 Chris Bartlett and Anthony Burke, in ABCnet, 18 August 2026, where the title reads: “How Kumar Sangakkara and team restored a world heritage-listed colonial villa in Galle Fort” Kumar Sangakkara was often described as one of the most elegant cricketers … Continue reading →

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January 21, 2025 · 12:51 am

Victor Ivan, RIP: …. The Wikipedia Memo on Victor

Michael Roberts,  I got to know Victor at a convivial session at Ananda Chittambalam’s house in Bambalapitiya in 1989. Our common interests in the island’s history and its tempestuous present meant that we kept in sporadic touch. I have his … Continue reading →

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April 22, 2026 · 12:43 pm

Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe: Pioneer Marxist Thinker & Leader

Shiran Illanperuma, whose essay marks Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe’s 125 birth anniversary and is entitled “The doctor who felt the people’s pulse” April 13 marked the 125 birth anniversary of S.A. Wickramasinghe, a national freedom fighter and founder of the … Continue reading →

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March 22, 2026 · 10:09 am

Featuring Sunil Bastian’s Stock of Publications

Michael Roberts  Way back in the 1970s-1990s when I visited  Sri Lanka in pursuit of my research interests two of the personnel whom I interacted with regularly were Sunil Bastian and Kumari Jayawardena –both with radical leanings of a Leftist … Continue reading →

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September 1, 2024 · 2:37 pm

Machiavelli on The Vicious ‘Skeletons’ Inherent Within Politics

A CIRCULAR from Kumar Kirinde … … with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Dear RAFOA member, Now that another presidential election is due in a few weeks’ time in our beloved country … Sri Lanka. I thought that … Continue reading →

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November 28, 2024 · 11:44 am

A Sri Lankan Author’s Work …”Offerings to a Blue God”

Offerings to the Blue God by Shirani Rajapakse Synopsis: A child saved from the tsunami finds herself trapped as a domestic slave, a young woman finds out the true face of her lover when she builds up the courage to visit … Continue reading →

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February 5, 2026 · 2:51 pm

Engaging Obeyesekere’s Wide-ranging Studies of the Kandyan Kingdom

Richard Simon, reviewing … The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom by Gananath Obeyesekere &  The Doomed King: A Requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinha by Gananath Obeyesekere In the deepening twilight of his career, the anthropologist and historian Gananath Obeyesekere … Continue reading →

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