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Beyond Imagination – Chandra Schaffter’s Life of Service
Ravi RUDRA has composed an extensive web-item describing Chandra Schaffter’s services to Sri Lanka, S. Thomas College, cricket, hockey, the Tamil Union CC’, insurance services in the island and humakind in general. The account includes photographs and is so extensive … Continue reading →
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An Epitaph for Charlie Ramanaden THEN, 13 March 1997
Dushy S. Perera Jerry ‘Anna’ to his relations, Sir to his numerous subordinates and Charles to his friends, passed away suddenly whilst playing tennis (a sport close to his heart) partnering his son Pravin, at the Annual Darrawela Club Tennis … Continue reading →
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Labuan –A ‘Goldmine’ to hideaway Foreign Assets
Lanka-e-News Investigations Desk – In collaboration with the International Fraud Detection Network (IFDN) … 6 Oct 2025 …… with this title: “The Secret Millions: 12,000 Undeclared Overseas Accounts Expose Sri Lanka’s Hidden Corruption Web. When investigators in Singapore first stumbled … Continue reading →
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Kandy ‘Swamped’ by Waste
Chaturanga P Samarasinghe, in Daily Mirror Online, 1 July 2025, where the title reads thus: “Kandy’s dirty pretty things”
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Deeply Lankika: John De Silva
Responding to a Request from An Aloysian Schoolmate and Friend named Roberts, John de Silva, aka “Johnny,” provided these fascinating genealogical details…… Michael Roberts UNIQUE FAMILY CONNECTIONS I am not too sure if I had sent you details of where … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Team
SEE .. https://island.lk/management-committee-of-the-rebuilding-sri-lanka-fund-appointed-with-representatives-from-the-public-and-private-sectors/ Management Committee of the ‘Rebuilding Sri Lanka’ Fund Appointed with Representatives from the Public and Private Sectors Cabinet approval has been granted to establish the ‘Rebuilding Sri Lanka’ Fund, aimed at rebuilding the country following the severe … Continue reading →
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Walter Stace in British Ceylon, 1910-1932
Michael Roberts Walter T. Stace was a British citizen born in 1886 and educated in private schools in Wales and Scotland before completing his undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Dublin. He was therefore of middle-upper class background. His philosophical leanings … Continue reading →
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Burghers with Their Belts Unbuckled
Richard Simon …. reviewing the book Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner, by Paul van der Velde, trans. Liesbeth Bennink In 1926, a translation of Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon (Travels on Foot through the … Continue reading →
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The School Thombos in Dutch Ceylon: Their Purpose
Bente de Leede & Nadeera Rupesinghe, whose article appeared in the Law and History Review , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , August 2023 , pp. 501 – 521 …. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248022000499 ……. with the full title of the article being thus: “Registering and Regulating Family … Continue reading →
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The Flawed Foundations of the West’s War Programme in the Ukraine
“Uatu” — A Nostradamus Today When war for profit meets war for strategic defense! “Precision beats mass” and “one shot, one kill” vs precision, mass and industrial scale warfare. The U.S. military industrial complex is profit oriented; they manufacture what … Continue reading →
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