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Taking to Street: Protests typically Lankan in Style
Mey Lankaava Neydha!!! …… !!!
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Facing Fortress Australia: Ceylonese Migrants in the 1950s & 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 … with most of the author’s documentary illustrations] The Six Australian Colonies came … Continue reading →
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Susan Bayly’s Review of Michael Roberts’ Book on The Rise of the Karava in Ceylon
Susan Bayly: “Review: The History of Caste in South Asia,” reviewing Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karāva Elite in Sri Lanka,1500-1931 by Michael Roberts (CUP 1983) …. in Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3 (1983), pp. … Continue reading →
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Liyanage in Conversation & Correspondence with NM Perera
Sumanasiri Liyanage, in Colombo Telegraph, 21 January 2022…. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi At my age an uninterrupted sleep is a luxury. My prostate wakes me up at least two to three time. Hence, it is hard to … Continue reading →
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Karuna in Britain in 2008: The Legal ‘Knots’
DBS Jeyaraj, in the Financial Times, 28 March 2025 where the title reads “How UK-sanctioned “Col” Karuna was deported from Britain 17 years ago” Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias “Col” Karuna After the UK sanctions were imposed the Tamil newspaper “Thamilan” interviewed Karuna … Continue reading →
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A Voice on THE VOICE ….. Its Double Standards
Peta Credlin in The Sunday Telegraph, 7 October 2023, where the title runs thus “Voice’s Yes campaign full of deceit and double standards” The unauthorised protesters who marched through Sydney this week spewing anti-Semitic bile and screaming “Gas the Jews” … Continue reading →
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Charith Asalanka at Cricket: Richmond College & Sri Lanka
The WIKIPEDIA Entry on The Man captaining Sri Lanka Today in the ODI Field Kariyawasam Indipalage Charith Asalanka (born 29 June 1997) is a Sri Lankan professional cricketer who currently serves as the captain of the Sri Lanka national team in white-ball formats of T20I and ODI and is … Continue reading →
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Asoka Handagama’s “Alborada” penetrates Chile
Eda Cleary, in Sunday Observer, 24 September 2023.… with highlighting imposed by the Editor, Thuppahi The film Alborada by director Asoka Handagama was premiered in Chile recently with the Director of the Film School of the University of Valparaiso, film professor … Continue reading →
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SLCAC Battle for Lanka in Canada
Link to case CV 21 00663853 and CV 21 00668250 hearing – May 25th Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition (SLCAC) …. Nepean, Canada, 25 MAY 2022 — Ayubowan ! We had a great hearing day yesterday where Cambridge LLP representing … Continue reading →
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Escalation! On the Cusp of World War III?
Fair Dinkum Putin announces partial mobilisation to boost the forces in Ukraine, as the two Donbass republics and two regions of Ukraine go to a referendum to join the Russian Federation. If the referendums support joining Russia, then the four … Continue reading →
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