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In Memoriam: Dr Sarojini Perera
Dr B. J. C. Perera ✍️… in The Island, 10 December 2025 The 6th of December marks the sixth solar cycle since my adored life partner, Dr Malwattage Josephine Sarojini Perera (née Peeris), left this mortal world. Six years have … Continue reading →
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Pflug’s PREFACE for the STACE Autobiography on British Colonial Ceylon
Bernd Pflug ** .… PREFACE The purpose of this book is to present a first-hand account of a British member of the Ceylon Civil Service in the first half of the twentieth century. Walter Terence Stace was a member of … Continue reading →
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The Kremlin’s Chef ….. Anti-Russian Western Parody
A Pix from Alan Benson received via Keith Bennett, 10 March 2025 …. maybe indicative of hardline Anti-Russian political fervour? …. what what!
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Ranil’s Responses to Al-Jazeera’s Hostile Questions
Darshanie Ratnawalli So, have you read Ranil’s Al Jazeera interview? Has anyone who is expressing an opinion on Ranil’s performance at his interview with Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan ingested the full content of this media circus? … 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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Deciphering Patriotic Devotion: The Japanese in the 1940s & the Lankan Tamil People For the LTTE
Michael Roberts reproducing an article presented in a popular website during the final stages in Eelam War IV in 2008/09 within the context TODAY of a horrendous war-situation in Palestine and its environs — the website being GROUNDVIEWS: …………….. https://groundviews.org/2009/04/21/ltte-and-tamil-people-i-preamble/ … Continue reading →
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Hot Press: Ukraine on the Backfoot in War with Russia
An Observer in A Black Sea Town …. with highlights and a title imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Kazakh authorities in Kazakhstan have called on all citizens to leave Odessa and Kharkov which suggests Russia will soon take these two … Continue reading →
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Fermenting Divisions, Favouring the Mighty … in the North & the East of Lanka
Tisaranee Gunasekara in Financial Times 2 April 2025 …. where the title reads “Cauldron-stirring time, again?” … while the highlighting is the work of The Editor, Thuppahi [with a caveat noted at the end of this presentation] “Double, double, toil and … Continue reading →
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Imagine there’s no countries, nothing to kill or die for
Rohini Hensman …. An article composed at the end of the year 2003 for a conference in January 2004; and eventually published in 2012 (see below: fn 1) …. with the title being borrowed from ‘Imagine,’ by John Lennon …. … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka in Cavernous Economic Chasm
Ahilan Kadirgamar in Q and A with Hans Dembowski …. in Q and A at https://www.dandc.eu/en/contributors/ahilan-kadirgamar Sri Lanka’s government defaulted in April 2022. How is the economy doing today? The situation is dire. Sri Lanka’s GDP contracted by 7.8 % last … Continue reading →
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