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The American-IMF Monster Revealed in Dissection of Sarvanandan’s Reading of the World
X … [who, alas, has to protect himself from potential ‘hits’ from American and Aussie agencies] …. NB: the highlighting emphasis is my imposition The Western template for stories on so-called predatory practices by China was crafted some years ago by … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Precarious Political Economy ….. Yesterday & Today
Mick Moore, whose chosen title is “It’s the Party, Stupid: Sri Lanka’s Political Turnaround – Part 1” ….. while the highlighting in this version with a different title has been imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Photo courtesy of BBC It is … Continue reading →
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Andrew’s Review: Before the Galle Tests Commence
Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPNcricinfo, Tuesday/Wednesday On paper it’s been six years since the Australia men’s side were last in Sri Lanka for a Test tour, but somehow that 2016 tour seems a lifetime ago. Graham Ford was Sri Lanka’s coach … Continue reading →
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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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Reflections: My Engagement with the Pogrom of July 1983 in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts The attacks on Tamils living and/or working in the southern and central parts of island Sri Lanka by elements of the Sinhala population were indefensible, horrible and disastrous for the country. It is not adequate to depict them … 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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