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A Supposed Wonder Drug gets Rubbished
A Recent Email Drum-beat touted a supposed wonder drug in the treament of cancer! ….. But the Essay meets Its Match in Two Caustic Comments from Two Sri Lankan Doctor Friends ONE: Dr Colin Fernando in Adelaide, 4 November 2012 … Continue reading →
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World Travellers and Sri Lanka: Mapping, Trading, Incursions, Et Cetera
KD Paranavitana, “Then they came in search of the finest island,” in http://www.lankanisle.lk/then-they-came-in-search-of-the-finest-island/ …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Sri Lanka has long been the dream island of many travelers from the West who engaged in intrepid voyages … Continue reading →
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Farewell Tulsi Karunanayake …. A Sri Lankan Heart as Warm as Capacious
Nihal Seneviratne: “The loss of a lady with a genteel personality” ..………… A tribute from the former Secretary General of the Parliament of Sri Lanka) Colombo – 12 August 2021 I did not have the privilege of knowing Hugh at … Continue reading →
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An Instance of An Efficient Process of Vaccination at Sugathadasa Stadium
EDITORIAL in Sunday Island, 4 July 2021, entitled ” A Success Story” We are happy to publish today a reader’s letter unreservedly complimenting the ongoing covid vaccination process at Colombo’s Sugathadasa Stadium last week where people over 70-years old received … Continue reading →
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Is China’s Eclectic Mix of Communism with Capitalism a Threat?
Tomasz Kamusella, in The Conversation, 26 October 2021, where the title runs thus “How China combined authoritarianism with capitalism to create a new communism” After the 1989 fall of communism in the Soviet bloc, five self-declared communist states remain today: … Continue reading →
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TW Roberts Pamphlet, circa 1936: “Problems of Public Life in India & Ceylon”
TW Roberts: PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC LIFE IN INDIA AND CEYLON Contents Page The Ceylon Elections Of 1936 … Continue reading →
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Ukridge of Uxbridge, Ukridge of Ukraine
Michael Patrick O’Leary, aka Padraig Colman, presenting an essay that did not make the top grade To help me through these troubled times, this sordid age, I have been bingeing on the oeuvre of the Divine Plum, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. … Continue reading →
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The Senanayakes at STC, at Cricket and in Politics in Ceylon
Michael Roberts In seeking details relating to DS Senanayake’s career at S. Thomas’ College after I received a copy of his school-leaving character reference from Warden Stone,[1] I received a fascinating note from Mevan Pieris[2] about young DS Senanayake’s school … Continue reading →
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Soaring Thoughts at Ratmalana Airport
Roger Thiedeman This article is adapted from the original published in the Sri Lanka Sunday Times on November 23, 1997 (http://www.sundaytimes.lk/971123/plus10.html) under the title [listed at the end of this presentation]. The title initially submitted, ‘Reminiscing at Ratmalana’, was changed … Continue reading →
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An Appraisal of Sri Lanka’s Industrialization Strategy
Prema-chandra Athukorala The history of industrialization strategy in Sri Lanka is characterized by abrupt episodes of substantial changes associated with political regime shifts without settling to a stable path required for self-sustained growth. During the first decade after independence in … Continue reading →
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