Source:Island We have had a series of “Avurudhu parties” here in Aotearoa. No shortage of Kavum, Kokis, Athiraha, and even Wali Thalapa. Buffalo curd available locally and of course imported treacle in abundance. Yours truly has assumed the role of a fly on the wall during these festivities and gleaned ...
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Monthly Archives : April 2021
A patient queryDear Doctor Harold I am due for the Astra Zeneca next week. I am 78 years old & in view of the recent reports reclotting somewhat concerned, though assured by my GP & others hopefully all will be well. I was taking aspirin for over 25 years since ...
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Apr 26, 2021
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Mathilda Karlsson Source:Dailynews Sri Lanka has earned an individual Tokyo 2020 quota place in jumping following a successful appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). A decision by the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) to annul results from its events at Villeneuve-Loubet in France that concluded in January 2020, ...
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The story of how the survivors received a racist response in the U.S. is prompting viewers to reflect on China’s rise. During the editing of “Titanic,” the 1997 blockbuster about the ship’s fated maiden voyage in April 1912, a scene of a Chinese man laying on a door, floating in the ...
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Apr 26, 2021
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Source:Thuppahis Unknown Author, Courtesy of Dushy Perera (a periodic migrant to Mannar) We had eagerly awaited this moment. It was a little after sunrise on the Thirukketheecharam Temple road and the dawn of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. We hurriedly got off our vehicles and started walking towards the mud flats and ...
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Apr 26, 2021
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Source:Thuppahis KNO Dharmadasa** Shirley D’Alwis, the first University Architect, died in harness. He was working day and night to complete the job entrusted to him – the preparation of the buildings he had designed and started constructing – for the university to be shifted to its intended site in Peradeniya. ...
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Apr 26, 2021
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Source:Dailymirror A total of 100 billion shopping bags are being issued to consumers every year by the supermarket chains and 10 million lunch sheets are used, which are causing an environmental hazard, Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said. A joint programme was held at the Viharamahadevi Park in Colombo by the ...
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Apr 26, 2021
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Source:Thuppahis An ABSTRACT of an article that appeared in print in Ethnos, 1989, vol 54: 1 & 2, pp. 69-82…. available online for payment to Taylor & Francis. This essay decodes a sixteenth century folktale which records the Sinhalese reaction to the arrival of the first Portuguese. Where the historiography has interpreted this tale ...
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Apr 26, 2021
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Source:Thuppahis Chandra R. de Silva,* whose original title runs thus: “Portugal and Sri Lanka: Recent Trends in Historiography”[1] … an article that was originally published in Re-exploring the Links: History and Constructed Histories between Portugal and Sri Lanka, ed. Jorge Flores, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, pp. 3-26 In a recent article entitled ‘Theoretical Approaches to ...
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