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Longing for Home
Nihal D Amerasekera ** “Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home!” by John Howard Payne (1823) Deep within each of us is a longing for home. Soon after I … Continue reading →
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Volcanic Eruption in Sumatra claims Lives of Some Hikers
Jerome Wirawa & Joel Guinton, in BBC News, December 2023, reporting from Jakarta and Singapore & deploying this title: “Mount Marapi: Eleven hikers killed as volcano erupts in Indonesia” Eleven hikers have been found dead near the crater of Indonesia’s … Continue reading →
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The IMF’s Vice-Like Grip on Sri Lanka’s Testicles … Continues
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose chosen title runs thus‘ ‘The IMF’s Remarkable Timing and a President’s Mandate for Debt Justice” …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor Thuppahi** At Annual Meetings in Washington in October International Monetary Fund head, Kristalina Georgieva claimed … Continue reading →
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Dharmasoka College in Ambalangoda and Its Founder
Jagath De Silva, in The Island, 19 May 2024, where the title runs thus “A valuäble publication on the history of Dharmasoka College, ambalangoda” This is a remarkable testament to the history and legacy of Dharmasoka College, meticulously compiled by … Continue reading →
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Indigenous ‘Touches’ within the British Colonial Era of Capitalist Expansion
Vinod Moonesinghe, IN Factum Perspectives March 3, 2025, where the title runs thus: “Tindals, Dhonis, and Sampans – The interconnectedness of historical Indian Ocean commerce” …. NB: the two photos & the map are insertions by The Editor, Thuppahi In the … Continue reading →
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Kumar Sangakkara’s Ecumenical Patriotic Outreach
Michael Roberts Kumar Sangakkara’s recent step as a front-personage for tourism in Sri Lanka (see https://thuppahis.com/2024/09/29/kumar-sangakkara-for-tourist-trips-to-sri-lanka/) calls to mind his bold steps on behalf of ethnic compromise and reconciliation in Sri Lanka in the 200os. In these efforts he was … Continue reading →
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Sharika Thiranagama in Profound Q & A on Sri Lanka’s Traumatic Past
Kaniyan Pungundran – Editor-in-Chief of Jaffna Monitor ….September 2025 … ..where the title runs thus: “JVP Still Denies the Tamil Ethnic Question: Sharika Thiranagama Speaks to Jaffna Monitor” It feels like yesterday. As a student, I remember flipping through Amuthu, … Continue reading →
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Introducing Tambiah’s 1992 Book: “Buddhism Betrayed?”
Item in Tamil Nation ……………………………………… https://tamilnation.org/books/eelam/buddhismbetrayed Given Buddhism’s presumed non-violent philosophy, how can committed Buddhist monks and laypersons in Sri Lanka today actively take part in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils? Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah’s Buddhism Betrayed? … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Political Situation Today: Salter in Q and A with Shanmugadas
Item in Jurist News, 25 April 2025, bearing this title “A Crisis of Governance and the Fluidity of Ethnic Identity: Understanding Modern Sri Lanka — Interview with journalist Mark Salter” As the author of the acclaimed To End a Civil War: … Continue reading →
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Introducing VISIONS OF TREASON by Kelly & Thiranagama
Traitors. Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building …. .. ….. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.9783/9780812205893/html Chap I = Introduction: Specters of Treason …. (pp. 1-23) …. by Tobias Kelly and Sharika Thiranagama …. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fj4qf.3 The English novelist E. M. Forster once wrote that … Continue reading →
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