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Recuperation: For the Tamil Tiger POWs
Air Commodore Vajira Senadheera, 18 February 2025, whose chosen title for this article is “Firsthand Insights into Sri Lanka’s Rehabilitation of Ex-LTTE Combatants: A Sri Lankan Experience for Global Application – Analysis”….. Source: https://www.eurasiareview.com/18022025-firsthand-insights-into-sri-lankas-rehabilition-of-ex-ltte-combatants-a-sri-lankan-experience-for-global-application-analysis/ .… NB: some photos recalcitrant LTTE … Continue reading →
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Breaking New Ground & Transcending Centuries: For All Ceylonese Across Continents
Rajiva Wijesinha, in The ISLAND, August 2024 …. a review of THE CEYLON JOURNAL …. Earlier this month I attended the launch of a new journal, the brainchild of a youngster called Avishka Mario Seneviratne. I had been urged to … Continue reading →
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RIP Victor Ivan: JVP, Reporter, Stirrer …..
Rajpal Abeynayake, in The Daily News, 20 January 2025 This week marked the passing of a public figure who was controversial by any measure, and the forgettable passing of another that most Sri Lankans would for very good reason, rather … Continue reading →
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A Lifetime Addressing Nationalist Political Currents & Zealotry
Michael Roberts As I attend a friend’s funeral every now and then in Adelaide or receive mail conveying sad tidings re good friends and other acquaintances, I am reminded that I will disappear into the dust in due course relatively … Continue reading →
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Pahalgam Atrocity: Brink of Indo-Pak War?
Lakshman Gunasekara, in the Sunday Observer, 4 May 2025 where the title is more temperate: “South Asia tense as India sanctions Pakistan over Kashmir attack” … with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi ** A bloody attack on an … Continue reading →
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Talking to Professor Bruce Kapferer ….
A NOTE From THE EDITOR, THUPPAHI From unknown reasons and/or my incompetence, I cannot locate the Web-Reference for this item or the date. However this is the first in a seres of posts which will feature Bruce KAPFERER who I … Continue reading →
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Kittu as LTTE Commander: A Violent, Tempestuous History
DBS Jeyaraj in The Daily Mirror, 20 January 2025, where the title reads “How Tiger ‘Col’ Kittu lost a leg when a bomb was thrown at him in Jaffna” Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Jaffna District Commander Sathasivamillai … Continue reading →
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Incisive Reflections on Sri Lanka’s Political History, 1930s et seq
Chandre Dharmawardena’s Comments in a Thuppahi Post, 9 January 2025 … comments mistakenly attributed to a “Thoughtfully Pink”** Sowell’s analysis is the typical simplistic analysis that puts all the blame on SWRD’s 1956 government. Sowell’s analysis encapsulates the simplistic approach … Continue reading →
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The Killing of Fr. Saverimuttu Selvarajah in 1990
Ruki Fernando in Groundviews, 11 July 2025, where the title reads “Getting Rid of A Troublesome Priest” … with the highlighting emphasis being the workd of The Editor, Thuppahi Photo courtesy of Ruki Fernando July 11, 2025 marks 35 … Continue reading →
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A Lankan Feast at an Iconic Bungalow: “Brief”
Sophie Brew in ???? where the title runs thus: “A Sri Lankan Feast on a Tropical Modernist Estate” …. NB: several striking pix of the food could not be uploaded The chef Cynthia Shanmugalingam cooked a meal that celebrated the … Continue reading →
