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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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Ernest MacIntryre: Profound Theatrical Memories
Laleen Jayamanne: “Humour and the Creation of Community: Remembering Ernest MacIntyre’s Contribution to Modern Lankan Theatre & Drama” “As melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness, so humour is comedy that has lost its bodily weight”. Italo Calvino on ‘Lightness’ … Continue reading →
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A Depressing Assessment of Sri Lanka’s Predicament About Six Years Back
THIS is an old essay that stayed buried in the Thuppahi system. It neverthless provides food for thought and serves as a testimony to its author (a brother of my friend the late Neville Jayaweera). Stanley too has since passed … Continue reading →
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The Royal-Thomian: Yesterday & Today
Uditha Devapriya & Uthpala Wijesuriya, in https://scroll.in/where the title reads thus: “Cricket, class and baila: The many layers of Sri Lanka’s celebrated Royal Thomian sports encounter” With an unbroken 145-year streak, the face-off between two of the island-nation’s oldest schools … Continue reading →
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Horrendous Situation, Stark Choices ….at Looming Sri Lankan Elections
Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda, in Polity.lk, 7 July 2024 … where the title reads “Uncertainty or Turmoil? Sri Lanka’s Pre-Presidential Election Politics” The coming few months have the potential to produce major political changes in Sri Lanka. The presidential election is … Continue reading →
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Karunatilaka’s Booker Prize Explorations of the Sri Lankan World
Sam King in The Weekend Australian, 29 January 2023, where the title reads thus “Exploring the Boundaries” …. with highlighting emphasis imposed by the Editor, Thuppahi Don’t let Shehan Karunatilaka sell himself short. “Until a month ago, I was just … Continue reading →
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Conflicting Readings of Sri Lanka’s Pre-Capitalist Past
Presenting a Review Essay compiled by Michael Roberts in 2010 that was presented in the SRI LANKA GUARDIAN on the 15th August 2010 … with this title: “Ethnic Identity in Sri Lanka’s Pre-Capitalist Past: Shanie, Darshanie and Roberts” When Darshanie … Continue reading →
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Brookes’ Book on Sri Lankan Cricket
Nicholas Brookes From Sathasivam to Sangakkara, Murali to Malinga, Sri Lanka can lay claim to some of the world’s most remarkable cricketers – larger-than-life characters, who thumbed convention and played the game their own way. More so than anywhere else … Continue reading →
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Don Bradman’s Best Innings? The 270 Runs He Amassed in the 1936-37 Series
Anurabha Sengupta: “Ashes 1936-37 – Don Bradman and the best innings of the century“ …. February 2, 2015 … an Item sent to TPS by Eardley Lieversz of Royal College and Sydney January 5, 1937. Don Bradman was under enormous … Continue reading →
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A Conservative Voice against Today’s Aboriginal ‘Voice’ ”
Dr David Barton, in THE QUADRANT, December 2022, with this title “Australia’s Aboriginal Industry: Always Was, Always Will Be About Power” In 1983, as a naïve youth worker and concerned by what I had been reading since the early … Continue reading →
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