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Prawn Dishes to Savour … Dissolving Ethnic Differences!

BBC News Item: “Isso Vade : The spicy snack that unites Sri Lanka,” in The Island, 12 February 2023, ….. https://island.lk/isso-vade-the-spicy-snack-that-unities-sri-lanka/#:~:text=Isso%20(prawn)%20vade%20(pattie,with%20onions%20and%20curry%20leaves. As the train pulled into Peradeniya Junction station in central Sri Lanka, the man sitting opposite me leapt out … Continue reading

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Waduge’s Chauvinist Sinhala Stance is Untenable

Mayura  Botejue The views of Ms. Waduge and her chauvinist Sinhala nationalist backers do not help to serve the interests of Sri Lanka. They sow discord and division at a time when the South Asian geopolitical brews concocted are exceedingly … Continue reading

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Australia face Sri Lanka in T20 Series: Andrew McGlashan’s Review

Andrew McGlashan in https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/sri-lanka-in-australia-2021-22-1263459/australia-vs-sri-lanka-1st-t20i-1263471/match-preview Australia take the field for the first time as the men’s T20 World Cup champions…and only have nine months until they need to fight to keep it. Such is the cricket calendar in the era of … Continue reading

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Developing Hambantota Port: The Controversy in 2019

Michael Roberts My Set of Bibliographical References An Insider: “The Internal Tussles & Vagaries and Scheming that hindered the Development of the Hambantota Port Project,” 15 September 2021, https://thuppahis.com/2021/09/15/the-internal-tussles-vagaries-and-scheming-that-hindered-the-development-of-the-hambantoa-port-project/#more-55017

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Addressing the Place of Agriculture & the Mahaweli in Lanka’s Economic Future–In August 1974

Michael Roberts The three-day conference on 16-19 August 1974 devoted to the topic of AGRICULTURE  IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SRI LANKA held at the excellent conference facility at the Department of Agriculture at Gannoruwa – within easy distance from the … Continue reading

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A Sri Lankan Author’s Work …”Offerings to a Blue God”

Offerings to the Blue God by Shirani Rajapakse Synopsis: A child saved from the tsunami finds herself trapped as a domestic slave, a young woman finds out the true face of her lover when she builds up the courage to visit … Continue reading

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A Reading of the Sri Lankan Elections from THE ECONOMIST

Item in The Economist, 23 Nov 2024: “Sri Lanka’s Left Turn: Sri Lanka’s president with Marxist roots now dominates parliament too” .… with highlighting emphasis imposed by the Editor, Thuppahi SRI LANKA was once a pioneer of free-market capitalism in … Continue reading

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Revisiting ‘Noble Death’ via the Tamil Tigers

Michael Roberts  An ‘outfit’ named ACADEMIA.COM has sent me digital links to old articles from my ‘pen’ on web that have attracted HITS. This is a flattering nudge to my weakening memory bank. As new generations of ‘students’ of the … Continue reading

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Sigiriya: A Stupendous Citadel …..

Mahil Wijesinghe in the Sunday Observer, 13 October 2024 where the title runs “The Stupendous Citadel of Sigiriya” After visiting the Dambulla rock cave temple, our next destination was Sigiriya, the 5th Century rock citadel, containing ruins of palace complex … Continue reading

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It is Now or Never: Face Extinction Unless ….

so sayeth a DINOSAUR  before the CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERNCE at Glasgow this month … Novmber 2021

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