AI Overview The structural foundation of the Player-Referral System, globally commercialized as the Decision Review System (DRS) in cricket and echoed through challenge systems across multiple sports, is rooted directly in judicial architecture and legal jurisprudence. The blueprint was authored in 1997 by Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna, who used his formal legal training to […]

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Dr. Arun Kumar Goswami* Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah’s mangled corpse was being paraded on the back of an elephant through the alleys and markets of Murshidabad! The purpose was to inform the residents of Murshidabad that Siraj had been killed! Proximity to, distance from, and strategies of power sealed the fate of Bengal vis-à-vis Indian subcontinent and, […]

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Senaka Weeraratna There  is a well known saying ‘ If you want to study Economics first study the lives of the Economists’. Likewise the same principle is applicable to the investigation of the story behind the myth that the Buddha (Prince Siddhartha) was born in Sri Lanka and not in India (or Nepal). Who are […]

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Sarath Obeysekera During this Vesak season, I witnessed a scene that left me with mixed feelings.Near my home in a suburban neighbourhood, where middle-income, lower-middle-income and low-income families live side by side, I saw a long queue of people waiting patiently for a free kottu dansal. Entire families stood in line.There is nothing wrong with […]

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