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Horrendous Situation, Stark Choices ….at Looming Sri Lankan Elections
Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda, in Polity.lk, 7 July 2024 … where the title reads “Uncertainty or Turmoil? Sri Lanka’s Pre-Presidential Election Politics” The coming few months have the potential to produce major political changes in Sri Lanka. The presidential election is … Continue reading →
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Iranian Warship seeks Protection … Yet More ‘Storms’ from the War in Middle-East
ITEM ONE: Iranian Vessel Seeks Safety in Lankan Waters, 5 March 2026 By Anupreeta Das …& Pamodi Waravita reporting from Galle, Sri Lanka A day after an Iranian ship was torpedoed by the U.S. in the waters near Sri Lanka, the country’s … Continue reading →
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The Mulacari of Peradeniya University: Shirley De Alwis
KNO Dharmadasa, in Hanthana Night, produced by the Üniversity pf Peradeniya Alumni Associatio Western Australia Chapter, August 2023 Shirley De Alwis — photo kindly provided by Mevan Pieris ….. thereby correcting a prvious error which presented another gent with … Continue reading →
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Best XI Team from Asia Cup Results
ESPNcricinfo staff, 18 September 2023 The Asia Cup is over. India are champions, for the eighth time. Deserving winners too. At the end of it, here’s the team of the tournament, put together with votes from Andrew Fidel Fernando, Mohammad Isam, S Sudarshanan, Shashank … Continue reading →
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Amputation Surgery from 24,000 Years Back !!!
ONE: Sara Hussein: “Missing foot kicks surgery back thousands of years,” in The Australian, 7 September 2022 A skeleton with a missing foot discovered in a remote corner of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient medicine and proves amputation … Continue reading →
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A Meeting of Cultures: The Unique Vernacular Chapel at Trinity College, Kandy
Ranil Bibile … reproducing an old essay without all its pictorial embellishments because the author does not have the original photos in his computer “as .jpegs as the articles were composed 20+ years ago and there have been many computer changes … Continue reading →
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At Lords: Man of the Match to a Cricket Ball … Good Lord!@!@!
Errol Fernando My Man of the Match over the years has often been a Man. Sometimes a bowler, batsman or fielder. Also perhaps an umpire or even a third umpire. Possible even a selector, coach or psychologist. This time, after … Continue reading →
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The Hill Country Tamils of Sri Lanka …. & Their Travails
Shamara Wettimuny in Financial Times, 12 April 2023 … with highlighting added by The Editor, Thuppahi On a muggy Friday afternoon, the auditorium of the National Library of Sri Lanka slowly filled with an eager audience from Colombo, the Hill … Continue reading →
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“Our Present and Our Future” –Erudite Reflections on Ceylon’s Situation in 1850
A.C.[1] “But where the stirring crowd, the voice of strife, The glow of action, and the thrill of life?” It may not perhaps be altogether useless to ask, How many of our countrymen have reflected seriously upon their condition and … Continue reading →
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Let’s Remove the Colonial Tropes in the Writings on Sri Lanka
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose preferred title is “Decolonizing July 1983’s Fiction and History for a Post-Ethnic Sri Lanka: Tropes of Violence and Cold War at the end of the American Century” “Fair is foul and foul is fair”— William Shakespeare, Macbeth … Continue reading →
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