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Early Writing: The Evidence from Sri Lanka
Darshanie Ratnawalli, here reproducing an article presented in the Colombo Telegraph and The Island in June 2016, where the title runs “Sri Lanka’s role in South Asia’s earliest writing controversy” A few years ago someone came up with the campaign … Continue reading →
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Mahela to Aravinda Aiyya: An Open Letter of Admiration
Item in the Daily Mirror, 13 November 2023 …. with highlighting added by The Editor, Thuppahi Former Sri Lankan cricketer Mahela Jayawardena pays a heartfelt tribute to newly inducted ICC Hall of Famer Aravinda de Silva. Mahela expresses deep admiration … Continue reading →
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Fermenting Divisions, Favouring the Mighty … in the North & the East of Lanka
Tisaranee Gunasekara in Financial Times 2 April 2025 …. where the title reads “Cauldron-stirring time, again?” … while the highlighting is the work of The Editor, Thuppahi [with a caveat noted at the end of this presentation] “Double, double, toil and … Continue reading →
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Becoming ‘Sinhalese’ or ‘Tamil’ in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts, …… in 2008 The printed version of this essay can be found in Michael Roberts: FIRE and STORM. ESSAYS IN SRI LANKAN POLITICS, Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2010, Chapter 9 …… ISBN 978-955-665-134-8. It was presented earlier on … Continue reading →
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Wunderbar! Reviving a Wounded Tusker Elephant
#ElephantZone #elephanttreatment #elephantrescue Tusker elephant fallen lifelessly with severe injuries brought back to life with proper treatment
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Ceylonese Migrants to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s
Earlson Forbes, whose title in THE CEYLANKAN, vol 27/2, May 2024 is “Fortress White Australia: What early Ceylonese migrants [1949 t0 1969] were up against” … now placed in TPS in a revised form to accomodate illustrations that proved recalcitrant The Six … Continue reading →
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In Memoriam: Vijaya Kumaratunga
DBS Jeyaraj in 2022 at https://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/?p=67620 where the title reads “Vijaya Kumaratunga: Charismatic Actor-Politician May Have Changed Nation’s Destiny” …… Posted by Administrator on 21 February 2022, 1:11 am The political landscape of Sri Lanka seems gloomy and desolate. Most of the actors who … Continue reading →
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Ireland Squashed in Three Days at Galle: Fidel & Danny Report
Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPNcricinfo, 22 April 2023 …. Sri Lanka 591 for 6 (Karunaratne 179, K Mendis 140, Samarawickrama 104*, Chandimal 102*) beat Ireland 143 (Tucker 45, Jayasuriya 7-52) and 168 (Tector 42, R Mendis 4-76, 3-56) by an innings and 280 … Continue reading →
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Amputation Surgery from 24,000 Years Back !!!
ONE: Sara Hussein: “Missing foot kicks surgery back thousands of years,” in The Australian, 7 September 2022 A skeleton with a missing foot discovered in a remote corner of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient medicine and proves amputation … Continue reading →
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Violent Attack on Imran Khan’s Party Rally
Item in Washington Post Islamabad— Pakistan’s top opposition leader, Imran Khan, was shot in the foot Thursday during a protest march and was lightly injured, party officials said. A gunman opened fire on the truck carrying the former prime minister … Continue reading →
