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Demographic Trends in the World: A Muslim Predominance
Web-Reference sent to me by Richard Hermon A Thuppahi thought arising from the graphic illustrations in this Video TALE: Where affluence and the search for security has led most of the non-Muslim world to deviate from the practices of their … Continue reading →
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Vengeance Unrestrained in Palestine: Pictorials Awesome, Atrocious, Awful
This graphic video-item was sent to me by a venerable Burgher-Lankan friend in Melbourne. It is NOT for viewing by the fainthearted …… because it is a deliberate circulation of a graphic example of HAMAS ‘justice’.
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JLK Van Dort’s Vibrant 19th Century Sketches of British Ceylon
Ismeth Raheem, in the Sunday Times, 24 December 2023, where the title reads “A Christmas sketch among the many 19th century social events captured by J.L.K. Van Dort” . … An Item conveyed to me by David Sansoni of Sydney and now sibject … Continue reading →
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The LTTE Bomb Attack on the Central Bank Building in the Heart of Colombo, 31 January 1996
Michael Roberts Colombo in the 1990s was a rather different world from the city today because its heartland centred around the Fort with its venerable shops (Cargills, Millers) leading mercantile offices, three premier hotels and the huge Central Bank building … Continue reading →
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Face-to-Face in Admonishment: Drama at the Adelaide Oval, 23rd January 1998
Michael Roberts Ashan de Alwis’s article in The Ceylon Journal Volume 1/1 published in mid-2024 is as readable and excellent an essay as anyone can wish for.[i] It focuses on the 50-over one-day cricket match between Australia and Sri Lanka played … Continue reading →
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Christina A. Bejan: Multi-Talented Authoress, Performative Artist, ….
A NOTE From the RHODES TRUST Secretariat, 24 March 2025 Cristina A. Bejan is a Romanian-American theatre artist, poet, and historian. A prolific playwright, Bejan has written nineteen plays, with productions in the United States, United Kingdom, Romania, and Vanuatu. … Continue reading →
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Cricket Pitch Invasions: Contrasting Reactions in Different Times
Michael Roberts If memory serves me right Terry Alderman injured himself when he tackled a lone Aussie pitch-invader on one occasion. Johnny Baisow isa sturdy Yorkshireman and he had no problems carting off …..yes “carting off” …. a slim intruder … Continue reading →
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Gaza: Glaring Double Standards in the West
Fair Dinkum It is easy to beat up on a small nation like Sri Lanka. As [Padma Rao Sundarji contends in her article on Canada’s pro-Tamil Tiger policies], the way the West [did] this [was] to use the threat of … Continue reading →
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Journalistic Articles from my Pen: A Bibliography, 1996-2009
Michael Roberts Articles that appear in academic journals are subject to a refereeing process before they, so to speak, scale the heights and enter the academic world. But there are numerous forums at the cutting edge which serve up essays … Continue reading →
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The Lakmahal Community Library in Colombo opens up, 2022
Lakmahal Community Library Located in an old family home, Lakmahal, whose inhabitants shared a love of literature, the Lakmahal Community Library (LCL) is a space to encourage interest in the literary arts and encourage people to engage with the joy of … Continue reading →
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