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Kumar Sangakkara’s Ecumenical Patriotic Outreach
Michael Roberts Kumar Sangakkara’s recent step as a front-personage for tourism in Sri Lanka (see https://thuppahis.com/2024/09/29/kumar-sangakkara-for-tourist-trips-to-sri-lanka/) calls to mind his bold steps on behalf of ethnic compromise and reconciliation in Sri Lanka in the 200os. In these efforts he was … Continue reading →
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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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Behind the Scenes: Radio-Plays in Sri Lanka in the 1970s and 1980s
David Graham I’m still getting used to thinking of Chris Greet as an Anglo-Indian.** I’d always assumed he’d been born in Ceylon and was a Burgher. Christopher Arthur Greet was my boss at Intasel Advertising from April 10, 1978 to September … 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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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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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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Striking Shapes …. Curious ‘Arrangements’
God’s Willing Palm
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