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February 10, 2026 · 2:10 pm

Police Assaults on Peaceful Demonstrations!!! ….. THIS is Right-Wing Australia

Caitlin Johnstone …. in a News Item sent to me by a Burgher friend in Melbourne  

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January 22, 2025 · 12:15 pm

Irawati Karwe: A Female Scholar Confronting Nazi Racism as well as the Wild

Cherylann Mollan, presenting an article entitled “India’s pioneering female anthropologist who challenged Nazi race theories” …..  BBC News Mumbai 19 January 2025 Irawati Karve’s writings about Indian culture and civilisation are ground-breaking. Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those … Continue reading →

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November 19, 2024 · 8:19 pm

A Journey.…. A Journey: Working Up a Documentary: “A Pilgrimage to Sri Lanka

Dodwell-Keyt to Victor Melder, mid-November 2024 The series of videos will showcase Sri Lankan culture and way of life. A few scripts have already been written, though I plan to revise and refine them further. The series will follow the … Continue reading →

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March 10, 2025 · 6:18 pm

New Archaeological Discoveries: Iron Age in Tamilnadu?

Soutik Biswas in BBC.com, 27 February 2025 … where the title reads “Did Iron Age ‘begin’ in India? Tamil Nadu dig sparks debate” For over 20 years, archaeologists in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to … Continue reading →

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March 20, 2026 · 12:55 am

Key Issues in the Human-Elephant Confrontation in Lanka’s Dry Zone

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe  in The Daily Mirror,   March  2026 … where the headline is different. Unlike sky rise buildings that dominate the skyline in Colombo, it is electric fences of various shapes and sizes that dominate much of the landscape in … Continue reading →

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October 19, 2023 · 1:58 pm

THE VOICE Referendum in Australia: ‘Overview’ of the Results

https://www.datawrapper.de/_/svSud/ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-15/referendum-result-yes-campaign-political-inferno/102977030 The brutal truth of the referendum result was that Yes campaign couldn’t cut through to a hesitant electorate By Laura Tingle Albanese’s position put an absolutely unfair pressure on his Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney to lead the debate.(ABC … Continue reading →

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October 11, 2025 · 7:48 pm

Bloody Lawyers!  Our Necessary Curse! …. Apoyi….Apoyi

Chamila Talagala in Facebook  They say Sri Lankans hate lawyers. But that hatred is not simple. It is older than the island’s courts, older even than the black coats and the Latin phrases. It is the bitterness people feel toward … Continue reading →

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February 11, 2026 · 9:37 pm

Unique ODI Match: Tied Twice !! … Second Super-Over Required ….

Sidharth Monga  ….. “Heartbreak for Gurbaz and Afghanistan as South Africa win after double Super Over”  Regulation time ended at 187-187; then we had 17-17 after the first Super Over; South Africa finally won the game after winning the second … Continue reading →

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March 21, 2023 · 5:04 am

The Insidious Work of American Soft-Power Agencies

 An Observer in a Georgian Black Sea Resort Town The NED/CIA have been using soft power to target the youth and media institutions in countries around the world. Take Georgia and Hong Kong as case studies. Protestors rally against the … Continue reading →

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December 19, 2023 · 12:02 am

A Revolutionary Architect: Minnette De Silva

Randima Attygalle, in DailyFT, 30 November 2023, where the title runs thus: “Celebrating A Revolitonary Housing Feat” ..… with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Endorsed by the World Monuments Fund, a first for Sri Lanka, ‘88 Acres’, the latest … Continue reading →

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