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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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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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Right Royal Pillage in British India! Now on Display!
David Page & Manisha Ganguly, in The Guardian, 6 April 2023, with this title “India archive reveals extent of ‘colonial loot’ in royal jewellery collection” File from India Office archive details how priceless items were extracted from colony as trophies … 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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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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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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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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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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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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