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Presenting Curious Things with Humour & Discernment
Stephen Keim, reviewing Richard Glover’s BEST WISHES , ABC Books. Richard Glover has been in the humour and entertainment business for a very long time. He has written a weekly humour column for the Sydney Morning Herald since 1985. Since … Continue reading →
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Black Friday in Colombo: 29 July 1983
Sugath Kulatunga, …. original submission with highlighting added by the Editor, Thuppahi That** was the story of Monday. The Friday that followed was a stark tragedy and a national calamity which has left its bloody stain in the records of … Continue reading →
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War Crimes Issue Develops in Sri Lanka: Chemmani & Beyond
N. Sathiya Moorthy, in Ceylon Today, 22 August 2025, where the title reads “How Historic is the Opportunity” … with highlighting being the intervention of The Editor Thuppahi In what has become the ritualistic report of the UN Human Rights … Continue reading →
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The Bumbling-Rambling JVP Insurgency of 1971
Janaka Perera, in The Daily News, 5 April 2023, entitled “Oh What A Lovely War for the Colonels of Ceylon – Remembering the April 1971 insurgency – a reporter’s experience,” …. With this qualifying Note: “This however is not meant … Continue reading →
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Seismic Shifts in World Power Balance as Xi and Putin Consolidate Ties
Lakshman Gunasekara in Daily News, 21 May 2024, where the title reads thus: “China-Russia summit: pointer to world’s future?” …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, ThuppahiMo The sudden death of Iran’s conservative President on Sunday hardly stirred the world … Continue reading →
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Tamil Women at War as ‘Birds of Freedom’ in the LTTE Cause
Vindhya Buthpitiya: “How to Capture Birds of Freedom: Picturing Tamil Women at War,” Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1) … derived from ………………………………………… https://doi.org/10.1215/21582025-10365016 … with the aid of my Aloysian mate KK De Silva; whilr the highlighting is my imposition. … Continue reading →
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Poppy Day in Ceylon and Sri Lanka
Retd Brig. Hiran Halangode This year the Armed Forces Remembrance Day and Poppy ceremony is due to be held on Sunday the 13th November 2022 at the Viharamahadevi park in Colombo. Since November is the month of Remembrance universally, it … Continue reading →
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Defeating the LTTE: The Worldwide Significance of This Achievement
Serge De Silva-Ranasinghe, in Asia-Pacific Defence News, Vol.5/5, May 15-June14, 2010, where the title is “Defeat Of The LTTE And Its Significance” …. with the difficult & painstaking task of conversion being handled by Darshanie Ratnawalli in Sri Lanka … … Continue reading →
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Facing A Tsunami & A Civil War
Dennis M. McGilvray, in an article pubd in 2006 in the India Review, vol. 5, nos. 3–4, July/October, 2006, pp. 372–393 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC …. ISSN 1473-6489 print; 1557-3036 online DOI:10.1080/14736480600939132 … one bearing this title: … Continue reading →
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The Psychology of Sacrificial Death: Its Horrible Dangers …. Worldwide
An Item from the Foundation for Political Pathology in New York associated with the name of Richard Koenigsberg** It is disturbing to consider how the minds of young men are manipulated using psychological techniques to get them to kill, and … Continue reading →
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