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The Gash Files and Beyond
Michael Roberts Shamindra Ferdinando’s rambling presentation of an Interview with Lord the Michael Naseby has produced some vital information about the creaking inner workings of the British government as well as the circumstances surrounding Lord Naseby’s interventions on behalf of … Continue reading →
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FOR Sri Lanka: Engaging Lord Naseby and His Journeys in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts Since I had been introduced to the British peer Lord Michael Naseby in the surrounds of the House of Lords in March 2018,[1] I assumed that he had been born into the aristocratic upper layer of British society. … Continue reading →
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Tamil Demonstrations and Thommo’s Thunderbolts: Sri Lanka at Kennington Oval at the 1975 World Cup
Michael Roberts While some of these striking photographs have been presented before in Cricketique or in Thuppahi, they have not been assembled under one roof before. They are significant both for political and cricketing reasons. In cricketing terms we had … Continue reading →
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Shipwrecks as Tourist Allure around Sri Lanka
Randima Attygalle, in SUNDAY TIMES SPOTLIGHT, 8 July 2018, with this title With hundreds of shipwrecks found around the coast, the country can be a divers’ paradise, say experts who call for measures to protect these wrecks from illegal salvagers … Continue reading →
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Re-positioning Uyangoda et al in the 21st Century Political Dispensation
Vinod Moonesinghe … with highlighting being impositions of The Editor, Thuppahi, whose “NOTE” at the end is also pertinent The judgement of the Supreme Court, whatever the motives of the judges, is broadly perceived by the mass of people as … Continue reading →
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Rivetting Data on the Jaffna Peninsula and Tamil Politics, 1929-1970s
Handy Perinbanayagam This is a reproduction of COMMENTS in a previous Thuppahi Item from 2012 — which presented an article by Rajan Philips in the Sunday Island of 26 February 2012. This unusual step is taken because the information therein: … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Political Swamp, Gotabhaya and the Viyath Maga Tamasha: A Critical Evaluation
Rajan Philips, in The Island, 26 May 2018, where the title is “The Shangri La tamasha: Neither presidential nor parliamentary, it’s Port City politics now After a week in Cuba, I am late in gate-crashing the Shangri La party, the … Continue reading →
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Sinhalese War Poems and the Portuguese
Rohini Paranavitana … a reprint of an article from Jorge Flores (ed.) Re-exploring the links. History and Constructed History=ies between Portugal and Sri Lanka, Wiesbaden, Harassowitz Verlag , 2007, pp. 49-62. Sri Lankan classical literature enriched with Buddhist thought did … Continue reading →
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In Appreciation of Sam the Man
We remember you, Vale, Good Musical Man! …
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Dr. Anupa Herath and his Breakthrough Invention in Intubation
Kumudini Hettiarachchi, in Sunday Times, 18 June 2017, an article entitled “Lankan doctor’s life-saving intubation invention wins gold” It is not an easy task — and as he assisted many an anaesthetist to ‘intubate’ numerous people, lying on the operating table … Continue reading →
