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April 14, 2023 · 1:52 pm

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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November 18, 2023 · 11:54 pm

“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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May 20, 2026 · 8:18 pm

Anthropology in Depth … Far & Wide: Q & A with Bruce Kapferer

BRUCE KAPFERER Interviewed by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, …. date not up front Photo by Andy Lewis. Moving at the margins to re-center anthropology. From having been supervised by Bruce Kapferer and having worked on and off with him since 1999, I … Continue reading →

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January 16, 2026 · 1:58 am

Merton College, Oxford, in 2025

Postmaster and the Merton Record 2025 FROM THE WARDEN The last twelve months have brought many global challenges, political, environmental and technological. Much of the time College feels like a haven and the year I’ll describe below has the rhythm … Continue reading →

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January 9, 2026 · 5:56 pm

Dissident Devananda’s Work During the Eelam Wars

Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, 7 January 2026 where the title reads thus “EPDP’s Devananda and missing weapon supplied by Army”  March 15, 2009: Social Services and Social Welfare Minister and Chairman of Special Task Committee, Northern Province, Douglas Devananda … Continue reading →

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July 30, 2024 · 1:44 am

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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May 4, 2025 · 7:06 pm

The Tourist Attractions of Delft Island: Imaginative Hands Beckoned ….

A Title Bestowed by the Editor Thuppahi upon an article sent by Capt Kumar Kirinde [courtesy of  the Country Director, A-PAD Sri Lanka] which bears this heading: “Challenges and Opportunities in Delft Island. A Field Visit by A-PAD Sri Lanka,” … Continue reading →

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March 1, 2026 · 1:52 pm

IRAN Now: A Crescendo of ‘Expert’ Opinions…..

ATLANTIC COUNCIL …https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/experts-react-the-us-and-israel-just-unleashed-a-major-attack-on-iran-whats-next/ He went big. On Saturday morning, US and Israeli forces unleashed Operation Epic Fury, what US President Donald Trump called “a massive and ongoing” campaign against Iran. He called on the Iranian people to overthrow the regime … Continue reading →

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October 9, 2024 · 12:42 am

Kamindu Mendis Leaps Unto The World Cricket Stage

Nick Brookes, writing at MURALI END where the title runs ”How Kamindu set the world alight” It’s been quite the year for Kamindu Mendis. Cast your mind back to January. Kamindu was on the outside looking in – yet to … Continue reading →

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September 23, 2022 · 8:24 pm

Schoolmates in Mourning Haka for the Christchurch Muslim Dead, April 2019

Michael Roberts My attentiveness to the poignant power of the funeral march for Queen Elizabeth on Monday September the 19th for those attuned to the cultural modalities embodied therein that was presented in an article  immediately afterwards[1] referred to the New … Continue reading →

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