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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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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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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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Intricate Ivory Artefacts in Ancient and Medieval Lanka
Premila Thurairatnam, whose article in The CEYLANKAN May 2024 Issue is entitled ”Ceylon Ivory” In Ceylon, ivory was used in carving as early as the 2nd century CE or earlier1. Descriptions of Lanka in the epic Ramayana refer to ivory-embellished … 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 →
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A Zealot in USA targets Sri Lanka
Rohana R. Wasala, in The Island, 10 September 2025, with this title “The root of all evil” Professor Michael K. Jerryson of Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA, testified on the subject of ‘Human Rights Concerns in Sri Lanka’ before the … Continue reading →
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The ‘Deep State’ in Sri Lanka and Its Role in the Easter Sunday Tragedy
Bedgar Perera I am no political scientist, but for quite some time, we in Sri Lanka, have been hearing and also feeling, that a “deep state” (DS), within the government, but independent of its political leadership, is in operation. This … Continue reading →
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