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Dissident Devananda’s Work During the Eelam Wars

Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, 7 January 2026 where the title reads thus “EPDP’s Devananda and missing weapon supplied by Army”  March 15, 2009: Social Services and Social Welfare Minister and Chairman of Special Task Committee, Northern Province, Douglas Devananda … Continue reading

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A History of the Palestinian-Israel Arena

Compiled by Gp Capt Kumar Kirinde, SLAF [retd] ….. without its prolific pictroial illustrations [which may  be  inserted piecemeal as time passes] ISRAEL … 1876 BC-2025 : Part I ….. A modern day nation-state with a 3,900 years history and … Continue reading

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Wellawatte In The Olden Days: Life In The ‘Sandy Garden’ Of The Fifties, Sixties And Seventies,

Asif Hussain,  2 May 2018 **   Wellawatte in the southernmost limit of Colombo, is such a hive of activity today that it is hard to believe it was a sparsely populated place a little over a century ago. Its Sinhala meaning, … Continue reading

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Early Writing: The Evidence from Sri Lanka

Darshanie Ratnawalli, here reproducing an article presented in the Colombo Telegraph and The Island in June 2016, where the title runs  “Sri Lanka’s role in South Asia’s earliest writing controversy” A few years ago someone came up with the campaign … Continue reading

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Gustave Eiffel’s Unique EIFFEL TOWER

Visit https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/torre-eiffel-construccion-coloso_11345 for the full version of “ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE. THE EIFFEL TOWER: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COLOSSUS”  …………………… an item made available by Group Capt Kumar Kirinde and his RAFOP collective …. with only some segments reproduced here. Thanks to … Continue reading

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A List of Israeli War Crimes in Palestine

This LISTING of Israeli War Crimes in Palestine by Yanis Varafoukis — clearly Greek in identity — was sent to me by Manel Fonseka in Colombo. War crimes – Grave breaches of the Wilful killings of the 1949 Geneva Conventions … Continue reading

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Wickremasinghe: President & Strongman? Reprehensible Acts

Andrew Fidel Fernando, in The Indian Express,  18 August 2022, where the title reads thus “New Sri Lankan president is focused on protecting upper-class interests” … with highlighting here being impositions from The editor Thuppahi As if acting out the … Continue reading

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Caste & Politics in the Sri Lankan Tamil World

Robert Siddharthan Perinpanayagam, in Groundviews, 22 August 2011, where the title reads “Caste And Politics” …. An article that drew 19 comments including some responses from “Sid”… reproduced here with highlighting imposed by The Editor in circumstances where my friend … Continue reading

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From Banda to Gota

Laleen Jayamanne, in The Island, 20 & 27 July 2022 where the title runs thus: “Teargas cinema and Rukmani Devi” “I have never found anything to excite the people in quite the way this language issue does”–– Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike … Continue reading

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Revisiting Robert Knox’s Experiences in the Kandyan Kingdom in the 17th Century

Padma Edirisinghe, in Sunday Observer, 2016, where the title runs “That wanderer among the Kandyan hills”.… see note below ** Thirteen miles off Gampola, past sprawling tea estates nestling in the lap of luxuriantly foliaged mountains, lies Legundeniya. Here, the … Continue reading

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