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December 25, 2025 · 3:46 pm

USA’s Unwitting Gift to the South

Lakshman Gunasekara in GROUNDVIEWS, 23 December 2025, with  this title “Trumpian America’s Unwitting Christmas Gift to Global South” Photo courtesy of Tyla “Every cloud has a silver lining,” wrote English poet-philosopher and leading 17th century civil servant John Milton in … Continue reading →

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March 8, 2025 · 12:16 am

Full-Frontal: The Trump-Zelensky Spat …… Implications

Dr. Matthew Crosston  … article in Modern Diplomacy with the title reading: “Trump vs. Zelensky: Popping the Proxy War”  …. presented here wthout the accompanying photos [tech issues] History will likely look back on the three-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine … Continue reading →

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January 13, 2023 · 12:26 pm

Murali’s Epic History: Facing Many Powers …. A Bibliography

Compiled by Michael Roberts  …   Murali is ’embraced’ by Tamil fans in Jaffna in 2004   Dr. Barclay “Buddy” Reid 2022 “Muralitharan: the arm that did not chuck,” 21 December 2021, https://thuppahis.com/2022/12/21/muralitharan-the-arm-that-did-not-chuck/ School of Human Movement, UWA 2004 “The … Continue reading →

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August 5, 2025 · 7:21 pm

Global Economics & Sri Lanka over the Recent Centuries

Sunil Bastian: “Sri Lankan state in a changing global context”  … a 2025 article presented  here with highlights  imposed by The Editor,  Thuppahi.** This short article emphasises the need to analyse the Sri Lankan state by placing it in the global … Continue reading →

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March 4, 2026 · 9:34 pm

Trincomalee and the Cold War Calculus of 1987: India’s Disastrous Intervention in Sri Lanka

KKS Perera …. responding to a circular request from The Editor, TPS, for “Thoughts and/or Lessons for the World from the Consequences of the Indian Government’s Military Intervention in Sri Lanka in 1987″  … ………with highlights and photographs being the … Continue reading →

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June 5, 2023 · 12:09 am

How the Kandyan Sinhalese Forces Kept the European Powers at Bay for Two Centuries

PK Balachandran, whose original article in the Daily Mirror of 26 November 2021, is entitled “Kandyan armies which kept Europeans at bay for two centuries” The Kandyan army also had local Malays and Kaffirs (Africans) and also Indians like Malabars, … Continue reading →

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August 1, 2025 · 8:38 pm

For Lankan Researchers: An Oral History Workshop

  Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. This interactive workshop, led by experienced oral historian Gaya Fernando, will introduce participants to the principles, practices, and power of oral history. Tailored for researchers, journalists, documentary producers, … Continue reading →

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March 3, 2026 · 12:53 am

The Geopolitical Complexities Around the Indian Intervention in Sri Lanka in 1987

  KKS Perera, responding to a Challenging TPS Item from Michael Roberts at https://thuppahis.com/2026/03/03/us-iran-war-any-lessons-from-sri-lanka-in-1987-et-seq/ History seldom unfolds in neat moral binaries. The crisis of 1987 between India and Sri Lanka was not simply about humanitarian concern for Tamil civilians, nor … Continue reading →

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April 9, 2026 · 8:24 pm

Crazy Brinkmanship ‘Trumpian’ …. !!@!!

Insights, analysis and must reads from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and the Global Public Square team, compiled by Global Briefing editor Chris Good ….. under the title “Countdown to War Crimes?” “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought … Continue reading →

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February 1, 2026 · 12:29 pm

A World of Difference in Economic Clout!

Top 10 Global Economies (2026 Projections) United States: $31.82 trillion European Union: $22.52 trillion China: $20.65 trillion India: $4.51 trillion Japan: $4.46 trillion United Kingdom: $4.23 trillion Russia: $2.51 trillion

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