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Sinhabahu: Reverberating Memories
KNO Dharmadasa, in The Island, 18 November 2011, where the title is “Sinhabahu : Fifty Years’ Memories” The year 2011 marks fifty years after the first staging of Professor Sarachchandra’s play Sinhabahu which shares with his own Maname (1956) the record … Continue reading →
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Dr. Anupa Herath and his Breakthrough Invention in Intubation
Kumudini Hettiarachchi, in Sunday Times, 18 June 2017, an article entitled “Lankan doctor’s life-saving intubation invention wins gold” It is not an easy task — and as he assisted many an anaesthetist to ‘intubate’ numerous people, lying on the operating table … Continue reading →
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The SL Army Medical Corps and Its Services at the Battlefront
Maj Gen Sanjeewa Munasinghe, RWP RSP USP … being a Presentation at the Defence Seminar entitled “Defeating Terrorism,” held at the Galadari Hotel in Colombo between 31st May 2011 to 2nd June 2011 …. with a NOTE by Michael Roberts … Continue reading →
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Angie, 12-Year Old Rock-Climbing Maestro
Greg Bearup, courtesy of The Weekend Australian 29 April 2017, where the title is “Top of Her Grade” n 1976, a 14-year-old Romanian gymnast named Nadia Comaneci stormed into the Montreal Olympics with the first-ever perfect score of 10. Gymnastics … Continue reading →
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Techno-Suits to boost Aussie Soldier Capacities
Rebecca Puddy in Adelaide, for The Australian, 27 September 2016, where the title is “‘Iron Man’ exoskeletons to give Diggers superhuman strength Australian troops are set to gain superhero strength, with trials of the latest powered titanium exoskeletons likely to take … Continue reading →
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Left-Liberals in Intolerant Mode within Some American Campuses
Kay Hymowitz, in The Weekend Australian, 18/19 March 2017, where the title is “Free Thought dies in Campus Ghettoes” Warning to Aussies from a visiting American: pay careful attention to the latest mob action to darken one of America’s elite … Continue reading →
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The JVP and Rajapaksa in Vidyodaya Politics, 1970s: Recollections
Chandre Dharmawardana …. [1] … [2] Some of what I remember from the period that Mahinda Rajapaksa was at Vidyodaya University as a library assistant is as follows. S. B. Dissanayake[3] was the leader of the Communist Party in the Campus … Continue reading →
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The Anti-Tamil Gal Oya Riots of 1956
Stanley J. Tambiah[1] My own first hand and indelible experience of ethnic riots happened in June 1956, when as a twenty-seven-year-old social scientist, recently returned from graduate studies in the United States, I took a team of thirty three students … Continue reading →
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Orientations to Knowledge in the World of the Sinhala
G. Usvatte-Aratchi, Courtesy of the National Trust, where the title of his talk was “Sinhala Attitudes to Knowledge” …….. http://www.thenationaltrust.lk/resources/images/Sinhala-Attitude-to-Knowledge.pdf Some of you may have noticed that I have been a frequent though not a regular part of this audience. I … Continue reading →
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A Study of Contemporary Buddhist-Muslim Relations in Sri Lanka
Gerald H. Peiris Peiris addressing John Holt INTRODUCTION: Muslims in the Multi-ethnic Polity of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka shares with the other nation-states of South Asia the phenomenon of complex ethnic diversities based upon … Continue reading →
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