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Facing Coronavid: Gota’s Middling Performance
Rajeewa Jayaweera, in Island, 5 April 2020, whose chosen title is “Empower the President to manage COVID-19″ A sizable percentage, if not the majority of the country’s intelligentsia, opposed Gotabaya Rajapaksa‘s candidacy for the Presidency. The former Secretary Defense and, … Continue reading →
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Fervent Faces as Signs of Extremism and Deceit? From Lakemba to Lanka
Michael Roberts The video report on Lakemba in Sydney by Emma Reynolds is causing a minor stir. My reproduction of the web report in Thuppahi and its circulation drew comments from one George Rupesinghe who challenged her sweeping presentation of … Continue reading →
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The Economist reviews the Presidential Elections from Its Seat in the Clouds
The Economist: “The Rajapaksa brothers are back in Sri Lanka,” ….. A convincing win for Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the presidential election divides the electorate on communal lines, 17 November 2019** FOR NEARLY ten years the Rajapaksa family ran Sri Lanka. … Continue reading →
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Cricketing Talent Denied: Derelict in the Jaffna Peninsula, 1980s Onward
Andrew Fidel Fernando, in The Cricket Monthly at ESPN, in 2014, where the title is “The lost boys of Jaffna” … [with two ‘contemporary’ Pix added by the Editor, and some highlighting of the text imposed ….. Thuppahi] Amid the gunshots and … Continue reading →
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Steve Waugh as a Mother Theresa and Cameraman
Greg Bearup, in The Weekend Australian Magazine, October 9, 2020, where the title is “Different Strokes. Life after Cricket” The office of the Steve Waugh Foundation is up the stairs and down the back of a block of shops on the … Continue reading →
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Kumar David assesses Gota’s Three-Months from His High Ground
Kumar David, in Colombo Telegraph, 18 February 2020, where the title runs thus: “Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Three-Month Report Card: What Is The President’s Game-Plan?” It’s official! President Gotabaya Rajapaksa informed a visiting UN dignitary that the 20,000 so-called missing persons “are all dead”. … Continue reading →
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The Plantation Economy in British Ceylon: The Downtrodden Indian Tamil Labour and the Dispossessed Kandyan Peasantry
Uditha Devapriya, in SAT MAG” of The Island on September 19 and September 26, 2020. PREFACE: This essay does not present a complete history of plantation slavery, which anyway has been covered many times before by scholars of repute, including Professor Asoka … Continue reading →
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Turbulent Times & Anxious Moments in Sri Lanka in 1988
John R Richardson**
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Western Covid Fever against China excoriated by Kalinga and Fair Dinkum
ONE: Kalinga Seneviratne: “COVID-19: Sinophobia Threatening to Endanger Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention” ** … https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/sustainability/covid-19/3435-covid-19-sinophobia-threatening-to-endanger-strengthening-the-biological-weapons-convention SYDNEY (IDN) – With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe and the US a bout of Sinophobia seems to have infected the western media. On … Continue reading →
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Constitutional Knots and Tamil Politics within the Indian Shadow
DBS Jeyaraj in Daily Mirror, 25 July 2020, where the title is “TNA Must Seek India’s Help To Protect 13th Amendment” The TNA may glibly say that everything is hunky-dory with India but this is not so. The reality is … Continue reading →
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