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August 6, 2023 · 12:15 am

In Appreciation of Jayantha Dhanapala

Prasad Kariyawasam: an article entitled “Remembering Jayantha Dhanapala (1938-2023)” …….. presented in a booklet entitled  “Hanthana Night” produced by University of Peradeniya Western Australia Chapter, 2023, pp. 50-52. “For those who had the good fortune of knowing and working with him, … Continue reading →

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June 29, 2025 · 9:37 pm

Milestones: Chandrika at Eighty

Gamini Keerawella in The Island,  29 June 2025  where the title runs thus: “CBK at 80: A Trailblazer’s Legacy in Perspective”   Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga As Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka’s first female Executive President, turns 80 on June 29, … Continue reading →

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October 5, 2023 · 11:32 pm

Asian Games: More Medals Secured by Sri Lanka

A = AFP NEWS ITEM, 4 October 2023 Colombo (AFP) – Teenager Tharushi Karunarathna, Sri Lanka’s only gold medallist so far at the Hangzhou Asian Games, received a congratulatory telephone call from the country’s president and cash from the cricket … Continue reading →

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March 16, 2026 · 11:14 pm

A refreshingly different Sri Lankan poetic voice

Indranee Kandiah & Thiru Kandiah, whose review article** analyses A Tapestry of Verse,  by Premini Amerasinghe {Nugegoda: Sarasavi Publishers. 2019. pp. 103] Premini Amerasinghe’s  A Tapestry of Verse, which was released last year, is a collection largely of her recent poems, … Continue reading →

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February 2, 2024 · 2:03 pm

Lessons for Life: Dr Buddy Reid in Q and A

THE MAKING OF AN ALL-ROUNDER: A Conversation with Dr Buddy Reid …. Sunday Island, 28 January 2024 …. https://island.lk/the-making-of-an-all-rounder-a-conversation-with-dr-buddy-reid/   ….  Correspondence to Dr Sanjiva Wijesinha = Sanjivasw@gmail.com Dr Buddy Reid – one of the finest all-around sportsmen Sri Lanka has … Continue reading →

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September 29, 2023 · 9:41 pm

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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November 22, 2023 · 3:35 pm

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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September 22, 2023 · 6:42 pm

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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February 9, 2025 · 2:02 pm

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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April 21, 2026 · 11:52 am

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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