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Danushka At Cricket: Beyond the Couplings
Andrew Fidel Fernando …. official presentation within ……………… https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/danushka-gunathilaka-345821 FULL NAME: Mashtayage Danushka Gunathilaka BORN: March 17, 1991, Panadura AGE: 32y 196d NICKNAMES:Dana BATTING STYLE: Left hand Bat BOWLING STYLE: Right arm Offbreak PLAYING ROLE: Allrounder HEIGHT: 6ft 1in EDUCATION: Mahanama College, Colombo TEAMS … Continue reading →
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Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library
Michael Roberts Papers, mainly on Sri Lanka ……MSS 0031 …. AT = University of Adelaide Library………………………………………………. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/mss/roberts/transcripts%20list Philip Gunawardena Edmund R Leach
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CJ’s Cricket News-Cuttings in 1957: Ceylon & the Cricket World
Michael Roberts Once upon a time in the newly independent British colony named “Ceylon” there was a young lad named Christopher John Van Twest who developed a passionate interest in the game of cricket. As I recall, as a young … Continue reading →
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Zain Airudeen’s Recounting of the Tsunami Traumas in and Beyond Hambantota
Zain Airudeen in The Daily Mirror, December 2024 …….. … via Kamanthi Wickremasinghe: Tsunami Survivors of Hambantota still relate tales of trauma and communal harmony A view of the vast destruction of Hambantota, a coastal town in the South of … Continue reading →
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Conjectures re Today’s World Power-plays
Retd Brigadier Ranjan De Silva …in USA …. pubd somewhere but received by TPS via Email ** Is Trump’s conduct demented, as portrayed? Neither demented nor portrayed. Trump is trying to remove once and for all the existential threat to the … Continue reading →
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The World Order Today: Challenging Jonathan Manz’s Reading
Brigadier Ranjan De Silva in USA now …. responding to QUESTIONS raised & POSITIONS taken in an Item within this SITE from Jonathan Manz dated April 18th, 2026 which is entitled “Is the World Moving Towards a ‘One-World’ Dictatorship of … Continue reading →
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SLINGERS: Malinga on Pathirana
Item in CRICINFO in The ISLAND, 28 May 2023 Lasith Malinga, now a bowling consultant with Rajasthan Royals, has been watching Chennai Super Kings’ games with particular interest. Matheesha Pathirana, CSK’s death-overs specialist, not only bowls with the same, unusual … Continue reading →
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Imagine there’s no countries, nothing to kill or die for
Rohini Hensman …. An article composed at the end of the year 2003 for a conference in January 2004; and eventually published in 2012 (see below: fn 1) …. with the title being borrowed from ‘Imagine,’ by John Lennon …. … Continue reading →
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Leonard Woolf: A British Jew in Colonial Jaffna
Sachi Sri Kantha, in an original essay … with highlighting in blue & red imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi … Introduction: Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) was the husband of influential British novelist Virginia Woolf nee Stepehen (1882-1941), who committed suicide. November … Continue reading →
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The Growth of Police Subservience to Political Overlords in Sri Lanka, 1948-2023
Merril Gunaratne, a Retd Senior DIG, in The Island, 3 September 2023, where the title runs thus: “Police subservience made political interference possible” …. while highlighting has been imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi This writing was inspired by the topical … Continue reading →
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