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Prejudice & Patriotism: Cricket in This Space
Roshan Kishore, in Hindustan Times, 29 October 2021, with this title “Cricket and patriotism: What links them in India” Pakistan’s victory over India in the ongoing T20 cricket World Cup match on October 24 has kicked up a political storm … Continue reading →
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Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Journeys, Camerawork & Gravestone at Bogawantalawa
George Braine, in The Island, 10 October 2022, where the title reads thus: “Irrepressible Julia Margaret Cameron at peace in Bogawantalawa” … with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Some years ago, my sister, BIL, and I drove to the … Continue reading →
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Louis F. Obeyesekere: An Empire Loyalist who went down when the “Ciotat” was sunk by an U-Boat
This article was originally written and published by Louis Frederick Obeyesekere’s great grandnephew, Sheannal Anthony Obeyesekere at: https://medium.com/@serendibrising/ ….. Item taken from SerendibRising, 3 March 2023, entitled “Louis Frederick Obeyesekere: Lost out at sea on Christmas Eve” … sent to … Continue reading →
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Choosing Gnanasara Thera! ‘Unmandated’ Madness!
Prabath Sahabandu, Chief Editor of The Island, where this item appeared on 31 October 2021, with the title “Sri Lanka: Mandates Stupidity“ A popular mandate is not a licence for a leader to do as he or she pleases. Instead, … Continue reading →
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Duleep Mendis’s Wide-ranging Career in Cricket
Rex Clementine, in The Island, 3 October 2021, where the title reads “Beware of Dulla” Amal Silva spoke little English those days. During the Lord’s Test in 1984, when Ian Botham said not so complementary things about Amal’s mother, the … Continue reading →
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Fortifying Self against Covid: Dr Dr. Zhong Nanshan’s Guidelines
A MESSAGE for ONE and ALL Kindly take note of the following practical advice by Dr. Zhong Nanshan (China’s top authority on Covid-19)*. Dr Zhong predicted that, sooner or early later, the widespread community infection of Covid-19 will be inevitable. … Continue reading →
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Covid Immunity: Issues ….. Growing Experiences
Maani Truu, in ABC Net, 17 January 2022, where the title reads “Can you catch COVID twice? Or does it give you greater immunity?” Central Coast resident Mitch Rogers has just come out of two weeks of complete isolation, which … Continue reading →
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The Primitive Ancients Arrowhead Innovations in Sri Lanka Way-Way Back
Michelle Langley et al, in The Conversation, 13 June 2020, with this title “48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest” Archaeological excavations deep within the rainforests of Sri Lanka have unearthed the earliest evidence for hunting … Continue reading →
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Not all Issues are Black or White: Some Voices from the Offspring of Cross-Cultural Marriages
Audrey Maxwell [nee Roberts] … a chapter in Rosemary Breger and Rosana Hill (eds). Cross-Cultural Marriage. Identity and Choice, Oxford, Berg, 1998, …. ISBN 1 85973 968 7 paper … with this reproduction being rendered possible by our nephew-in-law Tissa … Continue reading →
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A refreshingly different Sri Lankan poetic voice
Indranee Kandiah & Thiru Kandiah, whose review article** analyses A Tapestry of Verse, by Premini Amerasinghe {Nugegoda: Sarasavi Publishers. 2019. pp. 103] Premini Amerasinghe’s A Tapestry of Verse, which was released last year, is a collection largely of her recent poems, … Continue reading →
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