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The Lord of Cricketing Gods in India: MS Dhoni

Karthik Krishnaswamy in The Cricket Monthly, 24 July 2023 , where the title reads “MS Dhoni joined the pantheon of mythical Tamil heroes” Superstars in Chennai emerge from cinema or politics or both. Then came along a cricketer from Ranchi … Continue reading

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Old World Charm: The New Oriental Hotel in The Fort of Galle

Joe Simpson, in https://www.worldgenweb.org/lkawgw/noh.html … with highlighting added by Thuppahi and pictorial embellishments from Joe on request or from his past articles plus other cameramen “Preserving the spirit of a forgotten world”  ––  anecdotal glimpses of the New Oriental Hotel, … Continue reading

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Sinhala Village Roots and Jungle Lore at Discerning Depth

Sugath Kulatunga,  responding to an Invitation from The Editor, Thuppahi after the latter had seen an extract of this detailed and invaluable autobiography in Facebook in 2023 ** 1/10/2014: Written for the reading pleasure of my grandchildren. As a child … Continue reading

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The British in Ceylon: The Camera as Power

In 2011 Godfrey and Amar Gunatilleke sponsored the presentation of a pictorial history entitled Potency. Power & People in Groups, (Colombo, Marga Institute, 2011, ISBN 978-955-582 129-2. Kotahena Riots 1883 This work was, albeit partially, the presentation of items gathered … Continue reading

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Fidel Castro’s Visit to Harlem New York: The Political Ramfications Deciphered

Thomas Meaney, in London Review of Books, Vol. 43 No. 3 · 4 February 2021: reviewing book by Simon Hall entitled Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s, September 2020,  Faber, 276 pp., £17.99, 978 0 571 35306 4 It would … Continue reading

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Sinhala Nationalism

Rajesh Venugopal, … presenting here the second chapter in his book Nationalism, Development  and the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Cambridge University Press, 2018,…. 78-1-108-42879 8 hdback Sinhala nationalism is the dominant form of political consciousness in contemporary Sri Lanka. As … Continue reading

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Satha and De Saram: Outstanding Batsmen as well Prominent Jailbirds

Nicholas Brookes in The Cricket Monthly at ESPNcricinfo, 6 May 2019, where the title runs “The story of De Saram and Satha: batting geniuses who went to jail” …. Two of Sri Lanka’s greatest batsmen had memorable lives, but they … Continue reading

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Fortitude: Murali’s Fight to stay on the Field

Andrew Fidel Fernando. in Cricket Monthly within ESPNcricinfo, 11 August 2020, where the title runs  “Growing up with Murali,” Ten years after he retired, a reflection on what Muttiah Muralitharan has meant – and means – to a nation Before … Continue reading

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Stalag Luft III and Its “Great Escape” Tunnel: An Archaelogical Treasure

The Great Escape Tunnel Untouched for almost seven decades, the tunnel used in the Great Escape has finally been unearthed. The 111-yard passage nicknamed ‘Harry’ by Allied prisoners was sealed by the Germans after the audacious break-out from the POW … Continue reading

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Shakespeare’s “Cooking up a Past” AND Sri Lanka

Tom Shakespeare: “Çooking up a Past” in “Collection. No Small Inheritance” …. https://farmerofthoughts.co.uk/collected_pieces/cooking-up-a-past/ …. no date indicated …. but it was clearly written after the tsunami and, in my reckoning penned in late 2005. I have imposed haphazard highlighting …. and … Continue reading

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