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A Derisive Comment on Sri Lanka’s T20 Word Cup Performances

Punchi Putha in the Sunday Times [of Sri Lanka], 16 June 2024 … an item with this title  “Chased away” My dear Wanindu and team, I thought of writing to you at a time when you have been knocked out … Continue reading

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Is Prabakaran NOT a Hitler! …. Goodness Gracious Me!

Shenali D. Waduge, whose slashing sarcastic essay is entitled “Let’s Celebrate Prabakaran & the LTTE’s Glorious Achievements!”  … with the highlighting being that in  the original item A tribute to the world’s most misunderstood mass murderer and his liberation-through-terror campaign. … Continue reading

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The City of Bath in England Today: Its Attractions … & Travails

Michael Patrick O’Leary, in …………………………………………………. https://pcolman.wordpress.com/2022/10/16/customer-service-in-a-septic-isle-part-one/ .… where the title is “Customer Service in a Septic Isle: Part One” Mellifluous Amiability: During our lengthy visit to the UK from Sri Lanka, my wife and I went to the Walter Sickert exhibition at … Continue reading

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Roger Byard at the Cutting Edge in Forensic Pathology

University of Adelaide Newsroom, October 2021, where the title runs  “GUARDIANS OF THE DEAD PODCAST: TRUE STORIES AND FASCINATING CASES FROM A WORKING FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST” Professor Roger Byard has opened up his case files and trawled back through his personal … Continue reading

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Bharhut Stupa: Its Significance in the History of Buddhism

Bhante Dhammika of Australia, in Island, 14 August 2019, where the title runs “Bharhut Stupa; Majesty and Mystery” The British Major had ridden for days from Allahabad while on his way to Nagpur and had arrived in the small village … Continue reading

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Sagara Nuwan Bandara of Watagala: War Hero now a Fishmonger

Pushpa Weerasekera, courtesy of Daily Mirror, 15 August 2018 , where the title reads“Celebrated war hero now sells fish” The untold suffering and dedication of the war heroes, who were engaged in a thirty-year-armed-conflict, are indescribable. They were once treated … Continue reading

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Dayan Jayatilleka in His Element

Dayan accepts his ambassadorial appointment with Sanja, his companion-in-arms, in support in the left background  … and acknowledges his father as inspirational force by a typical essay at this momentous moment

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Profound Reflections: Jean Arasanayagam in Response to Smrti Daniel’s Searching Questions

Jean faces Smrti  Daniel 1: What in your childhood contributed to the kind of writer you are now? What recurring motifs and images from that time find expression in your work? JEAN1: So many factors. As I delve into my … Continue reading

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Achtung! Achtung! The Drones are coming!

Vegas Tenold, 18 February 2018 courtesy of http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-untold-casualties-of-the-drone-war-20160218?page=2 where the title is “The Untold Casualties of the Drone War” Early one evening in November, Brandon Bryant, a former Air Force officer and perhaps the world’s most famous drone program whistleblower, … Continue reading

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The Killing of Osama bin Laden: Rob O’Neill, the Seal, speaks

Toby Harnden, in The Australian, courtesy of The Sunday Times, 11 February 2015, with the title “The Man who shot Osama” IT was a fraction of a second, but the moment he saw Osama bin Laden is seared in Rob … Continue reading

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