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February 9, 2026 · 8:11 pm

Kamindu Mendis Steps Up …..

 Andrew Fidel Fernando = “Versatile Kamindu hints at finding his T20 home” … in ESPNcricinfo, 9 Feb 2026 The allrounder has long seemed a ready-made T20 cricketer and this innings may be the performance he needed. Sometimes you can be a … Continue reading →

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October 20, 2024 · 4:13 pm

Burning Issues for the NPP Economic Team

Darshanie Ratnawalli, in The Island, October 2024 … where the title reads ”The recent IMF visit and the new ‘economic team’ A new economic team, representing SL has gone into a meeting with the IMF. A President Media Division release … Continue reading →

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December 14, 2025 · 10:43 pm

Anti-Jewish Terrorist Attack at Bondi Beach …. Target = A Jewish Community Event

Max Corstorphan  ……..                NEWS ITEM IN NIGHTLY, 14 December 2025 … https://thenightly.com.au/australia/nsw/bondi-shooting-live-updates-beach-locked-down-after-shooting-outside-bondi-pavilion–c-21000406  “Bondi shooting live updates: 12 killed, including one gunman, man in custody as massacre declared terrorism” Multiple people are confirmed dead … Continue reading →

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December 3, 2025 · 11:51 pm

Vanni Hope Reaches Out to Flood Victims

EVERY BRANCH of  AID Helps ……. VANNI HOPE is one such branch   with may  ‘saplings’ of honest outreach ,…. esepecially in the north and east of the  island https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=vanni+hope+in+flood+victim+support&qpvt=vanni+hope+in+flood+victim+support&form=IGRE&first=

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October 24, 2023 · 8:20 pm

USA encourages Israel’s Nazi Pathways

Blackjack Bibi …. with the title and the highlights being impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi I was interested in the “NOTE from VB, an American citizen from Sri Lanka” which refers to Nikki Haley advocating the final solution for the … Continue reading →

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August 13, 2023 · 6:39 pm

A Maiden’s Prayer …. Set in Sri Lanka

A Notice sent by Charles Schokman of Melbourne Srianthi Perera, a journalist and former reporter at The Arizona Republic in the USA, has authored a whimsical and endearing literary novel based on her native Sri Lanka.   

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July 30, 2025 · 1:22 am

In Appreciation of James T. Rutnam

Sachi Sri Kantha, whose preferred title is “James T Rutnam (1905-1988): Noted Bibliophile and a Valued Mentor” … with the highlighting in colour being impositions from The Editor Thuppahi Introduction My destiny to meet and interact with James T Rutnam … Continue reading →

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March 16, 2025 · 12:58 pm

Trimming the Teams & Sharpening Skills: Lanka Cricket

Rex Clementine, in The Island, 16 March 2025, where the title reads “Chandraguptha in the running for a Test spot” We have just witnessed a fiercely contested First-Class season culminate in Bloomfield being crowned champions – a long-awaited triumph after … Continue reading →

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May 14, 2021 · 8:21 am

Peradeniya Practices: Face-to-Face in Debate

Michael Roberts Both Kingsley de Silva and this writer were nourished as undergraduates, and then as teachers, in the History Department at Peradeniya University in the 1950s and 1960s. This atmosphere fostered vigorous debate. The epitome of debate was deepened … Continue reading →

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August 5, 2024 · 7:12 pm

Of All Places! Lankan Asylum Seekers stranded in Diego Garcia

News Item in The Island , 23 July 2024 … where the title reads “Urgent request to relocate Lankan asylum seekers from Diego Garcia amid escalating crisis” Facing an urgent and escalating threat of harm to migrant children detained on … Continue reading →

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