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The Bambalapitiya Flats of Colombo in the 1950s & 60s
Asiff Hussein, in Elanka, 23 December 2023, …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Bambalapitiya Flats was the place to be back then, as any good ole’ Bamba boy or girl will tell you. Built in the 1950s, the … 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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Alastair Roosmale-Cocq: Appreciations & Memories
VALE ONE by Jeremy Ludowyke My name is Jeremy Ludowyke and I’d like to tell you something of Alistair’s life before he came to Australia in 1969. Like Alistair, I was born in Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, of Dutch … Continue reading →
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Influences in the Characterisation of the Princess in MANAME
Ernest Macintyre, being an article entitled “The Growth of a Tragic Princess”…. published in The Ceylankan, Journal 104, Vol 26/3, August 2023 MANAME Hemamali Gunasinghe as Princess Maname in 1956 Sometimes desultory, at a passing social phenomenon in early Peradeniya … 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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Hulugalle’s Appreciation of Revd Senior’s Career in Old Ceylon
FROM the recent ISLAND article …. 3-3-2024 …. by HAJ HULUGALLE on Revd SENIOR of Trinity and Ceylon” .… with highlighting emphasis added by The Editor, Thuppahi “Robert Crossette Thambiah and I, devoted old pupils of his, published these short poems … Continue reading →
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The Travails of War in Lanka Underscored in a New Play in Sydney
Steve Dow @dowsteve in a review in The Guardian, 18 November 2022… the play being entitled “The Jungle and the Sea” Sri Lankan civil war drama lifts joy above traumThis play by the xcreaators of the Helpmann-winning Counting and Cracking … Continue reading →
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James Hunter’s Depressing Dissection of American Political Culture Today
Michael Sean Winters, where the chosen title is “From ‘culture wars’ to ‘cultural exhaustion’: James Davison Hunter diagnoses our cultural ills” Friday, we began a review of James Davison Hunter’s vitally important book Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political … Continue reading →
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UN Agencies That Deployed False Death Figures re Eelam War
Palitha Senanayake, in The Island, 20 December 2024 …… ‘UN fudged Lankan casualty figures’ – Lord Naseby The United Nations Human Rights Council at its 57th session adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner … Continue reading →
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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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