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Kamindu Mendis Leaps Unto The World Cricket Stage
Nick Brookes, writing at MURALI END where the title runs ”How Kamindu set the world alight” It’s been quite the year for Kamindu Mendis. Cast your mind back to January. Kamindu was on the outside looking in – yet to … Continue reading →
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Forgotten Political Aggression: India in Sikkim and Taiwan under Chiang Kai-she
ONE: Lin Minwang New Delhi has been making new moves at the border recently. From October 14 to 31, India and the US are scheduled to hold the annual joint military exercise “Yudh Abhyas” in Auli in the Indian state … Continue reading →
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Dasun Shanaka’s Captaincy Central to Lanka’s Success
Rex Clementine, in The Island, 11 September 2022, with this title “Captain Dasun has helped Sri Lanka turn things around” Cricket’s most successful captains had some remarkable factors that made them successful leaders. Mike Brearley was a good thinker. Clive … Continue reading →
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Right Royal Pillage in British India! Now on Display!
David Page & Manisha Ganguly, in The Guardian, 6 April 2023, with this title “India archive reveals extent of ‘colonial loot’ in royal jewellery collection” File from India Office archive details how priceless items were extracted from colony as trophies … Continue reading →
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US Establishment in NY Under Threat from Underclass Forces
Mayura Botejue Aristocrats in fear as “Muslim Immigrant Communist” leads proletariat revolution in New York City. Zohran Mamdani will be the new Mayor of New York City. He promised to take on the billionaires and better the lives of working-class … Continue reading →
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Michael Wille on His Cricketing & Migrant Journeys
Michael Wille passed away in Melbourne this week. His account of cricketing life at Royal College in the mid-1950s and his experiences in Melbourne in subsequent decades was, I am proud to say, featured in oneof my defunct websites a … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Political Situation Today: Salter in Q and A with Shanmugadas
Item in Jurist News, 25 April 2025, bearing this title “A Crisis of Governance and the Fluidity of Ethnic Identity: Understanding Modern Sri Lanka — Interview with journalist Mark Salter” As the author of the acclaimed To End a Civil War: … Continue reading →
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Danushka’s Past & Future! … & His Blonde Pillar of Suppor
Michael Roberts The newshounds in Sydney and in Sri Lanka have been remarkably obtuse and incompetent. Those in Sydney following the series of court appearances faced by Danushka Gunathilaka did not have the capacity to ascertain the name and other … Continue reading →
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Galgiriya Mountain and Its Unique Monastic Ruins
Prageeth Sampath Karunathilaka, in Daily Mirror, 20 December 2023, where the title reads thus: “Longest mountain in Sri Lanka: How Saliya-Asokamala shaped the history of Galgiriya Mountain” …. The Galgiriya mountain seen … Continue reading →
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YEMEN: Yesterday & Today
Compilation by Group Captain Kumar Kirinde, SLAF retd … with some illustrationsin the original missing A historical nation that was divided between two empires in the 19th century that became two independent nations in the 20th century which united as … Continue reading →
