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August 11, 2021 · 8:09 pm

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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June 22, 2025 · 7:02 am

Territorial Claims: First Settlers & Their Primacy

Michael Roberts, presenting an article published in 2005 as a pamphlet by the ICES, Colombo with this title “The First Settlers and Their Claim to Ownership of Terrain/State. A Comparative Excursion” … an essay originally presented in Abdul Rahman Embong, Rethinking … Continue reading →

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February 19, 2026 · 2:01 pm

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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October 3, 2021 · 1:07 am

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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August 22, 2022 · 7:44 pm

Standing Firm: Authoritarian Forms of Governance challenged by Sri Lankan Professionals

Item in Colombo Telegraph, 19 August 2022, where the title is as follows … “Saying no to Authoritarian Governance” We the undersigned individuals from academia, the professions, the corporate sector, the clergy, and civil society organisations, join all those citizens and … Continue reading →

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April 25, 2022 · 12:33 am

CMM Jubair: Josephian Cricketer & First Muslim Doctor in Lanka

Avishka Mario Senewiratne, whose preferred title reads  “The Josephian Cricketer who became the First British Qualified Muslim Doctor of Sri Lanka” Small by area, large in diversity and history is the country, Sri Lanka. We, since the early Aryans came … Continue reading →

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April 10, 2022 · 8:37 pm

Turmoil Looming in Sri Lanka … April 1st … Not A Joke

Tisaranee Gunasekara, in Sri Lanka Guardian, 1 April 2022, where the title reads  “Sri Lanka: On Protests” I don’t know who is organising the Sunday’s planned protest. For me, that mystery is a serious problem. This is not a Hollywood … Continue reading →

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November 29, 2023 · 11:54 pm

The Palestine-Israel Conflict: Its Political and Legal Underpinnings

Rohini Hensman:  “The Political and Legal Underpinnings of the Palestine-Israel Conflict,” in New Politics, 2023 …. ……………………… https://www.academia.edu/110094670/The_Political_and_Legal_Underpinnings_of_the_Palestine_Israel_Conflict?email_work_card=view-paper On 7 October 2023, Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a massive attack on Israeli territory, killing 1405 people including over 300 soldiers … Continue reading →

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November 14, 2021 · 12:58 pm

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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August 24, 2021 · 7:48 pm

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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