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Rendering Kandy into a Cosmic Force — Sri Vikrama Rajasinha
PK Balachandran, in Daily Mirror 9 September 2021, with this title “Recreating King Rajasinha’s cosmic city” Sri Lanka’s last king, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha of Kandy, was vilified as a cruel despot and was overthrown by the British in 1815, … Continue reading →
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Socio-Political Insights from Views of the Aussie-Ceylon Match in 1938
Michael Roberts The recent entry in THUPPAHI on Lindsay Hassett has underlined certain strands within the history of Sri Lanka in the 1930s to 1950 through the background scenery displayed by the photographs deployed therein.
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W. Dahanayake: A Prime Minister like no other
Nihal De Alwis of Kalahe, Richmond & Nugegoda …. whose preferred title was “The World’s Poorest Prime Minister” Most Srilankans would by now have forgotten the poorest Prime Minister the World had, the late Dr W. Dahanayake! “W” was a … Continue reading →
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Roger Byard at the Cutting Edge in Forensic Pathology
University of Adelaide Newsroom, October 2021, where the title runs “GUARDIANS OF THE DEAD PODCAST: TRUE STORIES AND FASCINATING CASES FROM A WORKING FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST” Professor Roger Byard has opened up his case files and trawled back through his personal … Continue reading →
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Amazing! Gnanasara Thera’s Appointment as Point Man for Reconciliation!
Rajan Philips, in Sunday Island, 31 October 2021, where the title reads “One Country, One Law. What is it? Why now?” The gazette announcement that Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera will be heading a new Presidential Task Force to study “the … Continue reading →
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Ananda Dias Jayasinghe: Indelible Genealogy
Michael Roberts The Dias Jayasinghes are etched deeply in memory as sons of Galle who were committed to schooling its generations in cricket and in history, while yet aiding all and sundry. At St Aloysius College in the mid-1950s I … Continue reading →
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General Custer’s Last Stand: Annihilation by the Sioux, 25 June 1876
David Graham, in Quora, …. https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-epic-last-stands-in-history/answer/David-Graham-149 On June 25, 1876, after a stumbling night march that exhausted men and horses, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Sitting Bull’s village on the banks of the Little … Continue reading →
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Nationalisms in Ceylon: Origins, Stimulants and Ingredients
Michael Roberts, … reproducing Chapter III in Volume I of Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and Nationalist Politics in Ceylon, 1929-1950, Vol I, 1977, Department of National Archives, 1977 , pp. lxviii–lxxviii ** While the political activists of the … Continue reading →
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Professor Allen Abraham: An Illustrious Son of Jaffna College … and His Predictions about the Halley’s comet
Logan Thurairatnam …. with highlighting in black being that from the author, while coloured highlights have been imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi April 14th, 1910 – Prof. Allen Abraham sighted the Halley’s Comet with his naked eye from his home … Continue reading →
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The Horrifying & Systematic Rape of Bangladeshis in 1971
Jayantha Somasundaram, from two-part series in The Island, 22 & 29 December 2021, entitled “Victory in the East” “I have given you independence, now go and preserve it.” – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman In the aftermath of the 1857 Indian Mutiny, when … Continue reading →
