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Nimal Wikramanayake’s Legal Career in Victoria in Review
Hugh Karunanayake, reviewing the book A LIFE in the Law … by Nimal Wikramanayake, QC Published by Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne, Victoria ISBN: 9781925736762(p) 9781925736779(e) ……… Available at the publishers Ormond, VIC 3204, P.O. Box 52 ………..Tel: (03) 9504 3462) … Continue reading →
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USA’s “Global War on Terror” Following 9/11
Compiled by Gp Capt Kumar Kirinde, SLAF [retd]: “A global counter-terrorism military campaign initiated by the U.S. in 2001” ……….. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror, https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/exhibit/on-the-front-lines-cia-in-afghanistan/, ChatGPT, and Google Images … [with only some photographs Introduction: …… The war on terror, officially the … Continue reading →
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Multi-faceted Campaign against the SL Government Crackdown on the Aragalaya
HRW …. 31 August 2022 …………. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/31/sri-lanka-end-use-terrorism-law-against-protesters
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Idyllic Explorations: Sri Lanka’s Marvellous Ruins & Monuments
Bernard VanCuylenberg, whose chosen title for this essay was “An Odyssey – A Search for Heritage” …. with pictorial illustrations selected in arbitrary manner by the Editor, Thuppahi Pursuant to the articles which I wrote last year, “An Odyssey – … Continue reading →
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Lord Tariq Ahmad on His Visit to Sri Lanka
Lord Tariq Ahmad “I’m Tariq Ahmad, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State at the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office in the UK. I’ve just come to the end of my incredible 3 days in Sri Lanka. Taking of course … Continue reading →
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TW Roberts Addresses Ceylon’s Political & Administrative Issues in the 1930s
T. W. Roberts …. was a Barbadian who served the British Empire in Ceylon from 1901 to circa 1935 before settling down in the Fort of Galle with his second wife, Miriam Perera (also spelt “Pereira”). Freed from government service, he … Continue reading →
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Misreading the Tamil Tigers: An American Scholar in 2017
Paige Ziegler, in The Bridge, 13 April 2017, where the title is “Learning from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam” …. reproduced here in Thuppahi, a site which has presented umpteen articles on Eelam War IV, in order to indicate … Continue reading →
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Influences in the Characterisation of the Princess in MANAME
Ernest Macintyre, being an article entitled “The Growth of a Tragic Princess”…. published in The Ceylankan, Journal 104, Vol 26/3, August 2023 MANAME Hemamali Gunasinghe as Princess Maname in 1956 Sometimes desultory, at a passing social phenomenon in early Peradeniya … Continue reading →
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Richard Gabriel’s Life and Work
Nilantha Perera Palihawadana Beginnings and Family: Payagala Baduge Richard Mausuetus Don Gabriel was born on February 19, 1924, to Payagala Baduge Don Gabriel and Cyriline de Costa. He was the youngest of a family of three boys. His eldest brother … Continue reading →
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Germany Transformed: Steps Out as an European Powerhouse
Ed Turner, using this title “Germany’s €100-billion army fund: a remarkable change in post-war policy in response to the Ukraine crisis” 2 March 2022, …………………………………………………….. ……….. https://theconversation.com/germanys-100-billion-army-fund-a-remarkable-change-in-post-war-policy-in-response-to-the-ukraine-crisis-178202? If you’d asked experts just a fortnight ago what the key features of Germany’s approach to … Continue reading →
