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For Reflection: Sir John Kotelawala’s Speech at STC Prizegiving in 1954
Mt. Lavinia 1954 Prize Giving-Address by the Right Honourable Sir John Kotelawala, K.B.E., M.P. — with thanks to Harry De Sayrah of Sydney, who added this little preface “When politicians were literate and articulate …………………..” with a few highlights and … Continue reading →
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Jayati Ghosh exposes the IMF Role in the Crisis in Sri Lanka and Elsewhere
Video Presentation in DEMOCRACY NOW …. with this title “Economist Jayati Ghosh: Global Debt Crisis Is Perfect Storm of Unrest, Economic Disaster, Starvation” THE looming PERFECT STORM = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPMed4KOHuI We look at the looming possibility of a global recession amid … Continue reading →
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Sri Lankan Crisis: A Call for Debt Cancellation
STATEMENT ON THE CRISIS IN SRI LANKA. Southern Voices to be Heeded: A Call for Debt Justice, Debt Jubilee and Debt Cancellation The Coalition for Economic Democracy in Sri Lanka (CEDSL) is a group of concerned academics, activists, agricultural, … Continue reading →
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Understanding the Kamikaze Attacks in World War Two
Kostas Sapardanis, at http://sapardanis.org/2016/05/20/kamikaze-who-they-were-why-they-died/ on 20 May 2016, where the title runs thus “Kamikaze – Who they were, why they died” … item sent to me by retd Brig Hiran Halangode “Every time one country gets something, another soon … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Crisis: Meeting Fair Dinkum & Thuppahi Foursquare
Prithi Perera Allow me please to be as brief as possible in responding to the Positions taken by Fair Dinkum” and Thuppahi. Falsehood 1. As genuine Sri Lankans, we should not want to be colonized by anyone of the big powers, … Continue reading →
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Rejuvenating Sri Lanka? An Opportune Moment Now?
Andrew Fidel Fernando, whose chosen title reads “A chance to hit refresh in Sri Lanka” Could the pluralistic ethos of the uprising bring the country back from Sinhalese majoritarianism? Having swept to power in a landslide victory in late 2019, … Continue reading →
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From my Mother “Elizabeth” to Elizabeth Truss: Downhill …
Michael O’Leary in Sunday Island, 17 September 2022, where the title reads: “A Tale of Three Elizabeths” … with highlighting being the work of The Editor, Thuppahi England’s Glory: My mother had the same name as the UK’s latest and current … Continue reading →
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The American & IMF Bear in Sri Lanka’s Drawing Room
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, in InDepthNow, July 2022 ….. https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/opinion/5466-the-elephant-in-the-room-geopolitics-and-the-great-reset-in-sri-lanka …. where the title is “The Elephant in the Room: …” “But to watch cricket, there has to be a country left for us to watch it in, no?” A fan at the … Continue reading →
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Booklet on Sri Lanka’s Cricket History reviewed by Jon Gemmell
Jon Gemmell reviewing in 2019 a booklet from Michael Roberts pubd in 2006 Sri Lankan academic Michael Roberts has issued a booklet charting the key events in the island’s cricketing history. Forces and Strands in Sri Lanka’s Cricket History starts by telling … Continue reading →
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Lanka Trapped on A Precipice …. Completely Kota Uda
Malinda Seneviratne, in ……………………………………….. https://malindawords.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-brink-and-beyond.html where the title reads “The Brink and Beyond” A line has been crossed. That’s the title of a note doing the rounds referring to the ongoing protests and specifically to the fatal shooting of a … Continue reading →
