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Hot Press! Terrorist Attacks on Russian Sites in the Caspian
Observer in a Black Sea Resort Town On Sunday 23 June, which was the Orthodox holiday of Trinity, a public holiday in Russia, three coordinated attacks took place. The first was a Ukrainian-US attack on a popular Black Sea resort … Continue reading →
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The LTTE’s Remarkable Capacities: Its Air Tigers
Compiled by Kumar Kirinde, Retd Officer of the SLAF, whose chosen title was as follows: “The Air Tigers: The Air Wing of A Terrorist Organisation” …… with information and images sourced from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Tigers and Google Images) … Continue reading →
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Professor Antony Anghie receives International Accolade
Item sent to TPS by Hemal Gurusinghe va Victor Melder …. while highlighting has been imposed by The Editor.** Professor Antony Anghie recently received the 2023 Manley O. Hudson Medal from the American Society of International Law (ASIL). This award … Continue reading →
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Tekwani’s Review of the Sri Lankan Political Situation in Mid-2020
Shyam Tekwani, an Item presented as a “Sri Lanka Brief” in June 2020, AT https://eastasiaforum.org/2020/06/19/sri-lankas-return-to-ethnic-majoritarianism/ entitled “Sri Lanka’s return to ethnic majoritarianism” … with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi The voyage from Serendib to Sri Lanka through Ceylon continues … Continue reading →
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A Thoughtful Assessment of THE CEYLON JOURNAL
Dhanuka Bandara, in The Daily Mirror, 15 August 2025 … where the title reads “The Ceylon Journal III: A Review,” while the title here and the highlighting are the imprint of The Editor, Thuppahi The third installation of the bi-annual periodical The … Continue reading →
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Fighting & Dying FOR Britain during the Two World Wars
A New Book on The Ceylonese Volunteers in World War I and World War II
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Empowering the Body and ‘Noble Death’
Michael Roberts and Arthur Saniotis, … reproducing the editorial introduction to a collection of essays devoted to the topic identified in the title pesented within Social Analysis, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2006, 7–24 © Berghahn Journals … with highlighting … Continue reading →
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Sri Lankan Police as An Israeli Arm of Law….!!
Tisaranee Gunasekara, in HIMAL, 8 October 2025, under this title “The growing dangers of Sri Lanka’s Israel nexus” Pro-Israel groups and Buddhist extremists are expanding Israeli influence in Sri Lanka, stoking anti-Muslim sentiment as the government maintains ambivalence around Palestine … Continue reading →
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Let’s Remove the Colonial Tropes in the Writings on Sri Lanka
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose preferred title is “Decolonizing July 1983’s Fiction and History for a Post-Ethnic Sri Lanka: Tropes of Violence and Cold War at the end of the American Century” “Fair is foul and foul is fair”— William Shakespeare, Macbeth … Continue reading →
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Merril Fernando and Dilmah Tea: What A Stirring Story!
Tea mogul Merrill J. Fernando: ‘I owe everything to Australian consumers’.” …. SEE “Straight Lefs from the Dilmah Tea Missionary” by Benjamin Law, in The Age, 13 June 2020, https://thuppahis.com/2020/06/17/straight-lefts-from-the-dilmah-tea-missionary-merrill-fernando/ ALSO ALSO
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