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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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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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Maureen Hingert: Ceylonese Beauty Queen Astride the World
Roger Thiedeman in The Sunday Times 6 July 2025, where the title reads “Maureen Hingert and the Howard Hughes connection” Howard Hughes Since the passing in Los Angeles, California on June 29, 2025 of Maureen Neliya Hingert, many have … Continue reading →
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Hero Stones in Sri Lanka’s Past
Ama H.Vanniarachchy, whose title is “Commemorating Valour: Hero Stones of Sri Lanka” … SEE https://amahvanniarachchy.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/commemorating-valour-hero-stones-of-sri-lanka/ “A true warrior fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ……….. G.K. Chesterton. … Continue reading →
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Where No Woman is Kota Uda
…. and where one is at ease in the company of the Birds and the Bees … Continue reading →
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AI as a Looming Modern Frankenstein
Vinod Moonesinghe, whose title reads thus: “When AI Fears Death. Anthropic’s Alarming Findings and the Return of the Frankenstein Complex” The science and science fiction writer and inventor of the term “robotics”, Isaac Asimov coined the term “Frankenstein complex” to … Continue reading →
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Weliweya in Hambantota: In 1983 set against Leonard Woolf’s Time
A THUPPAHI NOTE, April 2025: I came across this short account of a visit to the dry zone village arena of Weliweva by Gerald Peiris and Professor Rao in 1983. We are thereby taken into a life-world far removed from … Continue reading →
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