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The Walawwa in Sri Lanka: Its Origins
Dash De Soysa, …. with a modification by the author of the original Thuppahi entry set out in blue lettered text; and two ‘pictures’ of the Prince of Wales’ visit to Ceylon added on 28th Novembe 2023 The walauwa was … Continue reading →
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Peradeniya University Along the Mahaweli River in the 1950s
Ernest Macintyre, in The Ceylankan, 25/4, November 2022, with this title “A Bend in the Mahaweli: A Story of the First University of Ceylon” The Mahaweli River, 335 long, the longest river in Lanka, has its beginning in a remote … Continue reading →
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Indrajit Summarizes the Reasons for Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis
Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, 26 March 2022, where the tiltle reads ”Successive governments’ budgetary operations caused financial instability” Former Governor of the Central Bank Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy says the failure on the part of successive governments to manage expenditure … Continue reading →
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St. Josephs College in Colombo: Its Multi-faceted Achievements over 125 Years
Lynn Ockersz, in The Island, 13 June 2022, where the title runs thus “St. Joseph’s College, Colombo – a dignified 125 years” One hundred and twenty-five years into its existence, St. Joseph’s College, Colombo remains dignified and spiritually-focused in the Sri … Continue reading →
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Facing Anosognosia …. Discounting Altzheimers
Bruno Dor Anosognosia = temporary forgetfulness_, by French Professor, Bruno Dor, of the Institute of Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease (IMMA), La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Hospital, Paris. He addresses the subject in a rather reassuring way: “If anyone is aware of his memory … Continue reading →
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Striking Shapes …. Curious ‘Arrangements’
God’s Willing Palm
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USA’s “Global War on Terror” Following 9/11
Compiled by Gp Capt Kumar Kirinde, SLAF [retd]: “A global counter-terrorism military campaign initiated by the U.S. in 2001” ……….. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror, https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/exhibit/on-the-front-lines-cia-in-afghanistan/, ChatGPT, and Google Images … [with only some photographs Introduction: …… The war on terror, officially the … Continue reading →
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Assorted Data on Walter T. Stace
A = A Note from Lucy McCann at the Bodleian Library in Oxford – Michael Roberts, some years back… At the Institute of Commonwealth Studies there is an autobiography of W.T. Stace as a civil servant in Ceylon, written in … Continue reading →
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Sinhala Monarchical Imagery in Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Past Political Pitch
Michael Roberts .… reproducing an article presented earlier in the COLOMBO TELEGRAPH in the year 2012…. an article bearing a different title: viz. “Populism And Sinhala-Kingship in the Rajapaksa Regime’s Political Pitch” … an article that also appeared under a … Continue reading →
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Bernard’s Odyssey in Sri Lanka: Further Marvels
Bernard Van Cuylenberg, whose chosen title is “An Odyssey: The Search for Heritage, Part Two” Nilaweli Beach in 2020 –Pix by one Mike Roberts PROLOGUE: Saying “Goodbye” is never easy. The “Goodbyes” I bid to the Staff at Nilaveli Beach … Continue reading →
