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Ceylon-England-Portugal …. With Ajit on a Rollicking Ramble
Ajit Varuna Rodrigo-Candappa, … with highlights imposed by the Thuppahi who is cheered by AJIT’s free-wheeling baila-script Hi Michael, ………..Your site evokes warm hearts, kind reflections – it dispels the aralu-bulu-nelli of weasel political concoctions about race. The sheer puhu-manya … 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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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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Besieged by ‘Requests” — Sri Lanka Amidst Iranian War Ramifications
An Item sent to TPS by Darini Rajasingham Senanayake, ** …entitled Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ ….. e-Con e-News 22-28 March 2026 ‘The [USA] wanted to bring 2 warplanes armed with 8 antiship missiles from a base … 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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