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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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Chinese Canadian War Veterans Step Out from the Shadows
Rod Mickleburgh, in The Globe and Mail, 10 November 2021, where the title is “Chinese Canadian Veterans celebrated at Vancouver Museum” When the Second World War ended, Ronald Lee did what so many other returning veterans did. He shed his … Continue reading →
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The Rise of Tribalism
Tony Donaldson I can remember a time back in the early years of this century when the age of cosmopolitanism was in fashion. It was a beautiful time. One of the great benefits of cosmopolitanism is that it allowed us … Continue reading →
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A Tale of Resistance: The Story of the Arrival of the Portuguese
Michael Roberts An ABSTRACT of an article that appeared in print in Ethnos, 1989, vol 54: 1 & 2, pp. 69-82…. available online for payment to Taylor & Francis. This essay decodes a sixteenth century folktale which records the Sinhalese … Continue reading →
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Vicious Victimization of Dr Danielle by the Western Cabal and THE AGE
Fair Dinkum For telling the truth about Wuhan as she knew it, this Australian virologist Dr Danielle Anderson has been attacked, smeared and had her life threatened because her statement did not align with American Australian narratives about the origins … Continue reading →
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Lakshman’s Hambantota Diarrhoeas
Lakshman Gunasekara … with highlights being the intrusion of The Editor, Thuppahi I recall reading both these articles,[1] or at least parts of these articles just a few weeks ago sent by you. 1) China:- I am an admirer of China (just … Continue reading →
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Shock! Terror! 9/11…… From Within CIA Headquarters at Langley
Anbereen Hasan On 9/11 I was at my desk at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA. We had just started our morning meeting when the planes hit the World Trade Towers in NYC. We sat in stunned silence, trying to … Continue reading →
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LTTE Activists at Work in Britain, 2021 …. stirring both Labour and Tories
Maya Anthony, in Ceylon Today, 14 October 2021,where the title reads “The LTTE Born Again; Second-Generation Terrorists” The remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are regrouping in the UK. Like Osama bin Laden groomed Hamza bin Laden … Continue reading →
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Being Sri Lankan. Here, There, Everywhere
Capt Elmo Jayawardena, whose title for this tale is “Sri Lankans, for better or for worse” I wrote some articles to the newspapers mainly about Sri Lankan matters and the political climate after Nandikadal. It was just to share my … Continue reading →
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Misreading the Asian Political Scenario: Ameer Ali’s Six Misconceptions
Fair Dinkum Ameer Ali’s essay of 6 June 2021 in the Colombo Telegraph [reproduced recently in Thuppahi ……… https://thuppahis.com/2021/10/24/betwixt-india-and-china-little-lanka/) suffers from three fatal flaws. First, there is a failure to identify his political affiliations and to show some understanding of … Continue reading →
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