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War!! How Should a Buddhist Confront WAR?
Brian Daizen Victoria, at Buddhist.Door.net 21 August 2025, with thits title: “How should a Buddhist face War?” Readers of my previous two articles on the relationship between Buddhism and war (or violence in general) will be aware that the historical … Continue reading →
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How Robert Knox’s Opus took shape in 1681
Anna Winterbottom, in The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 42, Issue 4., December 2009 , pp. 515-538 where the title is “Producing and using the Historical Relation of Ceylon: Robert Knox, the East India Company and the Royal Society” Abstract: … Continue reading →
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Debating Australian Aboriginal Lifeways Past
Gillian Cowlishaw, at John Menadue’s Public Policy Journal 15 August 2023 where her title is “Misreading Dark Emu”** …with highlighting emphasis imposed by Thuppahi Criticisms of the book Dark Emu and its author, Bruce Pascoe, continue to appear, and to become … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Topsy-Turvy Economy in the Last Decade
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake*…. with her choice of title being “Sri Lanka Back as Donor Darling Ignores the BRICS” and a sub-title that runs thus “France’s Macron and the US Fish in the Indian Ocean …. presented here with highlights imposed by … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Central Bank under the Spotlight
Chandrasena Maliyadde, in Daily Ft, 20 July 2022, with this title “Central Bank, its independence and us” An expert panel discussion on ‘Surviving the Current Economic Crisis: Ex-Central Bankers in Dialogue’ was held in early June. Some speakers stressed that the … Continue reading →
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Sin-Bin for Verbal Intimidation in Cricket
Michael Roberts This essay was drafted on 25 April 2001 and appeared in print-form in Roberts, Essaying Cricket, Sri Lanka and Beyond, Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publishers, 2006, pp. 98-102. The highlighting here is additional emphasis in 2023 by Roberts as … Continue reading →
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The Question Mark — It’s Intriguing History
Wikipedia The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism[1]) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. History = In the fifth century, Syriac Bible manuscripts used question markers, according to a 2011 theory by manuscript specialist Chip Coakley: he believes the zagwa … Continue reading →
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Gustave Eiffel’s Unique EIFFEL TOWER
Visit https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/torre-eiffel-construccion-coloso_11345 for the full version of “ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE. THE EIFFEL TOWER: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COLOSSUS” …………………… an item made available by Group Capt Kumar Kirinde and his RAFOP collective …. with only some segments reproduced here. Thanks to … Continue reading →
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Reflections on Australia’s Triumph over India
Andrew McGlashan in ESPNcricinfo, 12 June 2023, with this title: “What does Australia’s WTC win mean for the Ashes?” …. Smith’s ominous form, Boland’s metronomic accuracy augur well for the side as they dust off the cobwebs in style. … Continue reading →
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Shane Warne’s Post-Tsunami Philanthropic Reach at Galle and FOG Remembered
Item in THE ISLAND No foreign cricketer is likely to ever capture the hearts of Sri Lankans quite like Shane Warne did. Yet, of all the heartfelt tributes paid to the spin great on the island he had helped to … Continue reading →
