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Five Sturdy Men Who Saved Murali’s Doosra Innovation

Michael Roberts Dr Barclay Reid, “Buddy Reid” in most minds, has this week related his role in medically examining Muralitharan’s peculiar physiognomy and clarifying the  process of mystification that led some Australian umpires to no-ball him in late 1995 as … Continue reading

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The Tour of England in 1975: The CROSSCURRENTS Presentations

Thuppahi presents here the pages devoted to the Tour of England in CROSSCURRENTS. SRI LANKA and AUSTRALIA AT CRICKET, by Michael Roberts & Alfred James, Sydney, Walla Walla Press, 1998, pp. 88-94 …. reproduced here courtesy of technical aid from … Continue reading

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Moon Orbit Hoax! The “Moonshine” Trickster world We Live In!

Reuters Fact Check A video that social media users have claimed shows the moon eclipsing the sun at the North Pole has gone viral with 5 million views on Twitter alone. But the video is CGI and the scene it … Continue reading

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Danushka Gunathilake as A Conquering Hero & Gentleman

Devika Brendon, in GROUNDVIEWS, 29 September 2023, where the title runs thus: “The Conquering Hero: ‘Success’ in Danushka Gunathilaka’s Sexual Assault Case” ** In the 11 months just past, several media reports were busy portraying the events in the trial of … Continue reading

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A Critical Appraisal of Michael Roberts’s Writings on Eelam War IV

Gerald Peiris …. where the original title was “Michael Roberts’ Writings” [1] Unlike the reports compiled by the ‘UNSG PoE’ and the UTHR-J, the writings by Professor Roberts (hereafter, ‘Michael’ as ’Gerry’ has I have known him during the past 66 … Continue reading

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The Hegemony of Colombo from Way Back

Michael Roberts After discovering the Lorenz letters in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society in the 1980s I worked on the history of the island in the ninetenth cenury-and-thereafter with aid from Percy Colin-Thome and Ismeth Raheem in a … Continue reading

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The Modern Nation States’ Victims

Adam Henry Hughes, whose original title runs thus “Hiding the Body Bags: The Nation-State, Killing and Death” During a lecture [in 2010], the famous news correspondent Robert Fisk told a story of the reaction of a Reuter’s news agency (London) … Continue reading

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Portuguese Creole in Sri Lanka: Faint Traces & Remnants

Shannine Daniel, at ……………….. https://www.sundaytimes.lk/220522/plus/spreading-the-word-of-sri-lankan-portuguese-creole-483176.html Dr Hugo Cardoso, a linguist from the University of Lisbon and his team who have been researching this historical language spoken in the East of Sri Lanka have now taken to social media to preserve … Continue reading

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Charles Dickens and Ceylon

Raja Bandaranayake, in THE CEYLANKAN vol 26/3, August 2023, where the title runs “Charles Dickens on Ceylon” Introduction: An anthology by Charles Dickens entitled Sunshine on Daily Paths (or the Revelation of Beauty and Wonder in Common Things,1 picked up in an … Continue reading

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Cricket & Cricketers Negotiating the Pandemic 2020-21

Osman Samiuddin & Grish Ts & Shiva Jayaraman, in The Cricket Monthly, 26 March 2021, where the title reads: “”Who played how much” It began with the news that England’s players would not be shaking hands in Sri Lanka. It … Continue reading

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