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September 8, 2018 · 11:59 pm

Breaching the Presidential Portals of a Venerable Learned Society: Hema Goonatilake in the RAS

Darshanie Ratnawalli, in Daily Mirror,  August 2018, with the title “Royal Asiatic Society (SL) needs women and diversity” … with highlighting being the work of The Editor, Thuppahi If having a female at the helm is a sign of modernity … Continue reading →

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June 9, 2018 · 2:20 pm

Honouring Sir Desmond de Silva, A British Legal Luminary whose Incisive Report serves Lanka

Rajiva Wijesinha, courtesy of The Island, 8 June 2018, where the title is“Sir Desmond de Silva passes away” … with highlights being the intervention of The Editor, Thuppahi The death of Sir Desmond de Silva last week is a tragedy … Continue reading →

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December 10, 2019 · 2:09 am

An Incisive Note in Demolition of the R2P Programme of the Western Mighty

Gerald H. Peiris … A Memo prresented this December 2019 on the basis of articles on R2P presented initially in 2007. There is no difficulty about accessing the considerable volume of writings available on the R2P ‘Principle’/’Norm’.

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December 4, 2018 · 1:09 am

Pathways towards the Transformation of South Asia

SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda, in Eurasia Review, 7 September 2017, where the title is  “Transforming South Asia: A Key To The Future ” Commonalities are what we have in common. In most parts of South Asia the inheritance is common, shared origins, … Continue reading →

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April 19, 2018 · 11:09 am

The Moeraki Boulders on the Otago Coast

Johnny de Silva On a recent visit to New Zealand, while travelling to Dunedin on the Hampden/ Palmerston Road – route 1, we visited the Moeraki Boulders. A short walk down a path and steps and I was on the … Continue reading →

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February 10, 2018 · 6:48 am

Eternal Tigers. Tamil Demonstration in London on Symbolic Day

க்கிட்டான்டா சிங்களவன் | Sri lanka Independence Day | Tamilar Black Day ALSO SEE https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/tamil-solidarity-collects-signatures-for-petition-against-sri-lankan-high-commission-officer-brigadier-fernando/ Brigadier Priyanka Fernando’s first gesture — preceding the throat cutting signal [SO it is said … below] Sujeeva Nivunhella in London reporting in Sunday Island, 11 … Continue reading →

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September 13, 2018 · 2:38 am

Anagārika Dharmapāla: In Search of a Rounded Evaluation

Michael Roberts, courtesy of The Sunday Island 16 September 2018 Recently an anonymous hand writing as “A Dharmapala Devotee” presented a sarcastic opinion piece in the Island of the 5th September targeting myself, Gananath Obeyesekere and HL Seneviratne. My immediate … Continue reading →

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May 12, 2018 · 1:57 pm

Yahapaalanaya is Old Wine in a New Bottle

Veeragathy Thanabalasingham, of The Daily Express in News-in-Asia, 12 May 2018, with the title  “Lanka’s Good Governance regime has turned out to be old wine in a new bottle” President Maithripala Sirisena in his speeches on two separate occasions early this … Continue reading →

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December 1, 2018 · 1:25 am

At Cricket in 1946: British India vs England

Anindya Dutta, in The Cricket Monthly, 25 June 2018, where the title reads “A dinner in 1946” It was the last tour by undivided India to Britain. It was the summer of Merchant and Mankad, and independence was around the … Continue reading →

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February 17, 2018 · 1:49 am

Colombo City in Singapore Style? Its Hinterland Trumps That Idea …. Witness: The Recent Elections

Wilfred Jayasuriya I assume that the government is using the Singapore model of economic development, which focuses on services and not on agriculture or industry. In the 1970s when economic development or development economics became the favourite subject of politics and … Continue reading →

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