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Pandara Vanniyan ‘crowned’ Today
Dinasena Rathugamage presented a Photo with this caption in The Island, 27 August 2020: “Last Ruler of theVanni Commemorated “ His account runs thus: “Vavuniya Disgrict secetary SM Saman Bandulasena garalnds the Bandara Vaniyan statue opposite the District Secretatariat on … Continue reading →
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Collective Selves and the Promise of Buddhaland in Nationalism
Brian Victoria, in Buddhistdoor.net … where the title reads as “Nationalism: Collective Selves and the Promise of Buddhaland” Introduction In a recent lecture on the war in the Ukraine, John Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, noted … Continue reading →
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Democracy under the Gun in Sri Lanka
Jayadeva Uyangoda, in Sri Lanka Guardian 24 September 2020, where the title is “The End of Sri Lanka’s Democracy” The debate on the proposed 20th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s 1978 Constitution is gathering momentum. The proposal, which has been published … Continue reading →
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Aimée Jonklaas Williams: RAF Pilot in Wartime …. and a Remarkable Life
R.T. conveying a Vale from “City Dweller” …. [it is now revealed that “R.T.” is Roger Thiedeman of Melbourne In July this year [2000], Aimée Jonklaas Williams, a woman of Ceylonese birth, died in Spain, just short of her 81st … Continue reading →
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Dissecting Robert Kaplan’s Jaundiced Reportage: “Orientalism” Savaging Lanka
Michael Roberts Robert Kaplan is a well-connected Jewish American author and journalist. As one he travels widely and chose to visit Sri Lanka as a newshound in mid-2009 just after the Sri Lankan government forces had vanquished the Tamil Tiger … Continue reading →
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‘Covidiot Specialists’ as Another Menace
Dr Upul Wijayawardhana, in Island, 4 May 2020, where the title is “Which is more dangerous, Covid or Covidiot?” “Where knowledge is sparse, experts proliferate” is, perhaps, the most important lesson I have learned during this troubled time we all … Continue reading →
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The Wikipedia Tale of the Murugappans of Biloela … Today, Mid-2021
Murugappan family asylum claims .… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murugappan_family_asylum_claims Kokilapathmapriya Nadesalingam (Priya) and Nadesalingam Murugappan (Nades)[1] are two Sri Lankan Tamils seeking asylum in Australia. The couple married in Australia and have two Australian-born children. Until their detention by Australian Border Force in March 2018, the family was resident in the central Queensland town of Biloela, … Continue reading →
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Anti-Christian Zealotry in Sri Lanka- Dangerous Signs
Ruki Fernando, in Sunday Observer, 21 April 2019, where the title is “Christians and Religious Freedoms under Fire” ** From February 3 to April 14 this year, across Sri Lanka, there has been some sort of disruption against a Christian … Continue reading →
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Dunkirk Different! Migrants penetrate England by Small Boat
Sophia Sleigh & April Roach in Evening Standrard 10 August 2020, where the title is RAF plane patrols English Channel after nearly 700 migrants cross” An RAF plane was drafted in to carry out surveillance missions over the Channel today … Continue reading →
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Suri Ratnapala enters Debate on the Control of FB and Other Such ‘Engines’
Suri Ratnapala, in The Australian, 2 February 2021, where the title reads thus “Proof of life on social media to screen out evils” …. with highlighting emphahsis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi The suspension of Donald Trump’s accounts by Twitter … Continue reading →
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