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King Abdullah Speaks Out: A “Two-State Solution” for Palestine Arena
Item in Washington Post, 14 November 2023 King Abdullah of Jordan penned an op ed for the Washington Post yesterday. It can be found at, …. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/14/king-abdullah-jordan-two-state-solution/ Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein is king of Jordan. For more than a … Continue reading →
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Eisenhower Park Cricket Stadium: An Overnight ‘Ali Baba’ Creation
Nagraj Gollapudi, in The Cricket Monthly at ESPNcricinfo, 31 May 2024, where the title reads “New York’s beautiful monster: how a cricket venue was created from scratch” In Eisenhower Park on the outskirts of the city, a stadium has come … Continue reading →
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WHO’s Medical Shoulder in Support of Sri Lanka Today
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks …. The WHO has been in the frontline trenches in the battle against the insidious monster, Mr. COVID, from the outset and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been one of its generals. So do listen ….
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Is Prabakaran NOT a Hitler! …. Goodness Gracious Me!
Shenali D. Waduge, whose slashing sarcastic essay is entitled “Let’s Celebrate Prabakaran & the LTTE’s Glorious Achievements!” … with the highlighting being that in the original item A tribute to the world’s most misunderstood mass murderer and his liberation-through-terror campaign. … Continue reading →
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Debating the Value of Tangential Historical Forays
Michael Roberts A FEW DAYS BACK, on 28th November 2023, I circulated this item among Lankan aficianado…. [ Let me add, here, that I was prompted to do this by the burgeoning world debate on the Palestinian-Israeli War that has … Continue reading →
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Learning Law with Aid From Colvin R de Silva
A Guy named Talagalla, … with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi I am just penning this note after finishing my research for the day, before the thoughts dissipate into the quiet of the evening. The cases I read, the … Continue reading →
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The NPP’s Education Reform: Stirring the Hornet’s Nest
Niyanthani Kadirgamar Education occupies a special place in the minds of the general public in Sri Lanka. Thanks to the visionary education reforms put forward by the Report of the Special Committee on Education in 1943 and the consequent Free … Continue reading →
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The Battle For An Archaic Fort in Jaffna in 1990 During the LTTE Insurgency
Gamini Goonetilleke, in JAFFNAMONITOR …. https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/inside-the-siege-a-sinhala-doctors-account-of-jaffna-fort-1990/ The first mortar shell screamed just after dawn on 10 June 1990. It tore through the coral-stone ramparts of Jaffna Fort, the blast rattling every window in the city. Inside the pentagonal walls, 130 … Continue reading →
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Thrills-A-Plenty: Those West Indian ‘Little Boys of Mine’ at Cricket in the 60s & 70s
Mark Nicholas, in ESPNcricinfo, July 2024, where the title runs thus: “Sobie, ’73,” Fifty-one years ago, one of the very greatest set Lord’s alight He say, “Do you remember?” He say, “Do you recall?” I say, “Yeah, I remember, Oh, I … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka in IMF-Western Stranglehold
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake in The Sunday Island, 4 February 2024, where the title runs thus: “Of Elections, Bond scams, and Money Politics: The IMF and the Anatomy of Default @ 75 …. Default as Hybrid Economic Warfare” … with the highlights … Continue reading →
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