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July 26, 2026 · 2:24 pm

Straddling the British Colonial World: Primrose Marie Swan

Sandy Austin Primrose Marie Swan wrote many books while she was living in Kenya, including ‘Dim Venue’; ‘Tides Of Zhimoni’;  ‘So Low The Stars’; ‘Wake Of A Moonbeam’; ‘No Day But This’; Secret Splendour’; ‘Joyous Bondage’; ‘Dear Enchantment’ and ‘Dangerous … Continue reading →

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November 7, 2024 · 10:40 am

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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July 6, 2025 · 4:05 pm

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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May 15, 2026 · 1:40 pm

Into the Sunset: Some Burgher Names in Sri Lanka …..

Michael Roberts …. reproducing an Article in ELANKA dated 16 December 2022 and entitled “Disappearing Burgher Surnames in Island Lanka-by Michael Roberts” Source:Thuppahis Pix of Burgher Tennis Club in the Fort of Galle in 1928 inserted here courtesy of David Colin-Thome … for … Continue reading →

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August 6, 2024 · 7:55 pm

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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October 20, 2025 · 12:11 am

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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February 16, 2025 · 9:44 pm

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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July 29, 2024 · 8:44 pm

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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May 25, 2024 · 9:49 pm

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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April 22, 2025 · 1:41 am

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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