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Rajapaksa Modalities: Basil as Lone Ranger Jack of All Trades
Editorial in The Island, 31 July 2020, bearing this title “Battles and Puzzling Moves” SLPP founder and chief strategist Basil Rajapaksa has said something very interesting in a recent press interview. He has explained why he is not contesting the … Continue reading →
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Investment in Sri Lanka Today: Questionable Steps and Looming Influences
Dr. Sarala Fernando, in The Island, 10 January 2021, with this title “Selling the Family Silver” and India-Sri Lanka bilateral relations A remark attributed to the US Congress that “Sri Lanka is a valuable piece of real estate” had made … Continue reading →
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Elephantine Problems in Sri Lanka’s Jungles and Villages
Kamanthi Wickremasinghe, in Daily Mirror, 23 June 2020, where the title reads “Sri Lanka’s vanishing Elephant Corridors” As many as 16 areas that have been identified as elephant passes are yet to be declared and included in a gazette Area … Continue reading →
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Wind-Power Takes Off in Mannar
Dr Tilak Siyambalapitiya, in The Island, 8 December 2020, where the title reads “Wind power in Mannar,now a reality” On a windy day, way back in 2002, an engineer from the CEB, approached the Mannar island, searching for a location to … Continue reading →
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Locals and Environmentalists Challenge An Aussie Sand-Mining Project in Mannar
ABC Science .. environment reporter Nick Kilvert and Jane Lee for Science Friction 23 December 2020 ….. Two thousand flamingos, a war-torn island and an Australian mining proposal As a small child, Shreen Abdul Saroor remembers getting up before dawn with her father to spy … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka enters CNN List of Best Travel Destinations for 2020
VISIT https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/places-to-visit-2020/index.html The South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka is as ancient as it is beautiful; as complex a civilization now as at any time in its 2,000-year history. Despite recent tumult (the horrific terror attacks last Easter), Sri Lanka … Continue reading →
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Robyn Cormack’s ODE to Her Burning Aussie Land
Robyn Cormack: “My Suffering Country – 2020″ My sunburnt country is in trouble The land of sweeping plains Of majestic towering gum trees Is going up in flames. The heatwave is relentless The rains are staying away The skies are … Continue reading →
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Endangered: The Purple-Faced Langur in Sri Lanka
Dr. Rudy Rudran, Scientist Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, in Island, 16 November 2019, with this title “Sri Lanka’s purple-faced langur is among the world’s 25 most endangered non-human primates” The IUCN’s Primate Specialist Group (PSG) has again included Sri … Continue reading →
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The 43 Group in Ceylon: Their Story
Rohan de Soysa, copy of a PowerPoint Presentation made to the National Trust of Sri Lanka on September 29, 2016 by Rohan de Soysa transcribed into text format …. with coloured underlining [as distinct from that in black] being emphasis … Continue reading →
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Shakespeare’s “Cooking up a Past” AND Sri Lanka
Tom Shakespeare: “Çooking up a Past” in “Collection. No Small Inheritance” …. https://farmerofthoughts.co.uk/collected_pieces/cooking-up-a-past/ …. no date indicated …. but it was clearly written after the tsunami and, in my reckoning penned in late 2005. I have imposed haphazard highlighting …. and … Continue reading →
