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Expanding Participation in Tapping the Dutch East India Company Archives: Call for participation: user questionnaire The GLOBALISE project is developing a digital platform to make Dutch colonial-era records—specifically Dutch East India Company archives—more accessible to communities around the world. These records … Continue reading →

Dilshan Madushanka, presenting an article entitled  “The Dutch East India Company (VOC): The Trading Empire That Changed the World” The Dutch East India Company, better known by its Dutch initials VOC, was one of the most powerful commercial organisations in world … Continue reading →

Vitaly Ryumshin, journalist and political analyst  …. https://www.gazeta.ru/comments/column/articles/22525411.shtml The Pentagon Wants a Killer AI. …. The dangers of using AI in warfare ………   Why the US military wants AI that doesn’t ask questions While Russia closely follows the negotiations … Continue reading →

Netherlands: Today’s GLOBALISE Project ….“GLOBALISE and Sri Lanka–related archival materials” The GLOBALISE project is a digital archival and historical initiative developing an online research platform to make around 5 million scans of the Dutch East India Company archives accessible to a wide … Continue reading →

A CAUTIONARY NOTE From Michael Roberts as Editor, Thuppahi This Item came from an anonymous source. I am not a political economist  and do not have the skills or means of ascertaining the truth or falehoods in the  alleged “facts’ … Continue reading →

News Item at Financial Review, November 2026 ….  https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/macquarie -s-departing-ceo-warns-comfort-risks-australia-s-future-20261106-p61bi3 Australia has what outgoing Macquarie chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake calls the “curse of comfort”. The nation is admired for so many things globally – natural resources, its education system, rule … Continue reading →

Giovanni Torre & Dan Jones, in article entitled  “A learning journey: Connecting the Goldfields and Canada,”  … Javen Marchant, Harlan Schilling and Sheena Graham at the GABC event. Image: Dan Jones. The Goldfields Aboriginal Business Chamber recently coordinated a remarkable … Continue reading →

A NOTE FROM A DINKY-DIE AUSSIE FRIEND Michael, I don’t know if you saw Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club speech yesterday, but here is what she declared will happen if she becomes prime minister at the next election: The end … Continue reading →

Naren Chitty Introduction: The Coromandel Coast milieu of 17th century Chetty migrants to Zeylan is addressed here in relation to Udayappa Chetty (d. 1693). He was an ancestor of the Chetty family of Christian S. Chitty (1841-1891), as well as others … Continue reading →

An Item in the  Financial Times 23 December 2025 …..Sent by Jayantha Somasundarum of Canberra … where the web deployed this  title: “Elephant House Ice Cream marks historic launch in Australia” Ceylon Cold Stores PLC (CCS), a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings … Continue reading →