Michael Roberts
Articles that appear in academic journals are subject to a refereeing process before they, so to speak, scale the heights and enter the academic world. But there are numerous forums at the cutting edge which serve up essays on hot topics. These are not necessarily run-of-the-mill mundane pieces. They can be spin-offs presented by writers in the academic field. As I look to the future when my mortal steps in this world will no longer generate any sound, I present here a listing of some of these ‘pop-articles’ produced in the period 1996-2009. Many of them relate to the Eelam wars and the Tamil Tiger commitment to “sacrificial devotion” (a term I deploy in lieu of “suicide missions”).
2010 “Kaplan’s Savage Orientalism,” Himal South Asia, January 2010. pp…….. ALSO IN https://groundviews.org/2010/01/10/robert-kaplans-savage-orientalism-a-detailed-critique/
2010 “Symbolic Postscript: A Terrible Violence. Desecration of Tiger War Memorials deserve Condemnation,” transcurrents, 30 Dec. 2009, http://transcurrents.com /tc/2009/12/
2010 “Twilight of the Tigers: Cogent Exposition of Stance against Federalism,” Island, 20 January 2010.
2010 “ ‘Alex’ Kuhendrarajah and the Australian Media,” South Asia Masala, 20 January 2010; ….. …………………………………………………………….http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/ 2010/01/20/%e2%80%98alex%e2%80%99-kuhendrarajah-and-the-australian-media/ …………….. https://thuppahis.com/2013/07/26/ahoy-a-ship-a-ship-the-boats-in-the-asylum-seeker-brouhaha/
2009a “Dilemma’s at wars end; thoughts on hard realities,” http://www.groundviews.org, 10 Feb. 2009 and Island, Feb. 2009.
2009b “Dilemma’s at war’s end: clarifications and counter-offensive,” http://www.groundviews.org, 19 Feb. 2009 and Island, February 2009.
2009c “Cricket in an age of suicide missions,” Island, 28 Feb. 2009
2009d “The Lahore atrocity: our cricketing ambassadors,” Island, 14 March 2009.
2009e “The needs of the hour,” http://www.groundviews.org, 1 April 2009.
2009f “Suicidal political action, I: soundings,” http://www.transcurtrents.com, April 2009
2009g “Suicidal political action, II: Ponnudurai Sivakumaran,” http://www.transcurrents.com, April 2009.
2009h “Suicidal political action, III: imperatives,” http://www.transcutrents.com, April 2009
2009i “Suicidal political action, IV: LTTE power & popular support,” http://www.transcurrents.com,April 2009
six Tamil martyrs for their Eelam cause ... and A Tamil Tiger recruit with her cyanide capsule around her neck
Induction of a Tamil Tigress–receiving the Kuppi at a passing out ceremony
2009j “LTTE and Tamil people, I: preamble,” http://www.groundviews.org, 21 April 2009.
2009k “LTTE and Tamil people, II: interflows,” http://www.groundviews.org, 22 April 2009.
2009l “LTTE and Tamil people, III: nationalism and living religion,” http://www.groundviews.org, 23 April 2009.
2009m “LTTE and Tamil people, IV: dedicated Tamils,” http://www.groundviews.org, 24 April 2009.
2009n “Realities of war,” Frontline, vol 26/10, 9 May 2009
2009p “Some pillars for Lanka’s future,” Frontline, vol 26/12, 19 June 2009.
2009 “Adjutant Australia: Controlling Boat People,” http://www.groundviews.com, Dec. 2010 and “Taken in by Tamil Tall Tales,” The Australian, Nov. 2009.
2009 “Speaking from Ignorance: Australians on Sri Lanka & Its Boat People,” http://www.tuppahi. wordpress.com, Dec. 2009.
2009 “Crude Reasoning,” in ABC Unleashed, 7 Nov. 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/ unleashed/stories/s2736651.htm.
2009 “Tamil Migration within and beyond Sri Lanka,” Lanka Guardian, 19 Nov. 2009, http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2009/11/tamil-migration-within-and-beyond-sri.html
2009 “The Rajapakse Regime & the Fourth Estate,” http://www.groundviews.org, 8 December 2009.
2009 “The Rajapakse Regime: Brickbats, Plaudits,” http://www.groundviews.org, 16 December 2009.
2009 “The Sinhala Mindset,” www tuppahi.wordpress.com, Dec. 2009.
2009 “Tamil Tigers & Their Practices of Homage,” www tuppahi.wordpress.com, Dec. 2009.
2008a “Split Asunder: Four Nations in Sri Lanka,” www.groundviews.org, 13 January 2008
2008b “Addressing the Nations of Sri Lanka,” in www.groundviews.org, 27 January 2008
2008c “Sacrificial Devotion; a Focus on Selfless Zeal,” http://sacrificialdevotionnetwork. wordpress.com
2008d “State dispensations today: debating and qualifying the label ‘secular’,” in http://sacrificialdevotionnetwork: WordPress.com
2008i “The Galle Literary Festival – from the Left Flank, http://www.groundviews.org, 9 Feb.
2008j “The Galle Lierary Festival—from the Right Flank,” http://www.groundviews.org, Feb. 2008 And Montage 2008k “Issues for Tamil nationalism,” http://www.groundviews.org, March 2008
2008l “History-making in Lanka I: problems,’ wwwfederalidea.com, April 2008
2008m “How does one become Sinhalese or Tamil in sentiment?” http://www.groundviews.org, and Island, 30 April 2008
2008n “July 1983: Looking back in anger and despair, 25 years on,” ICES conference paper,………also appearing in http://www.groundviews.org, 25 July 2008.
2008p “The spectre of terrorism and cricketing fears,” http://www.groundviews.org, 12 Dec. 2008 and Island, 3 Jan 2009.
“Tamil Tigers: secular or godly/ or both?”
2007 “Achilles Heel in Democracy,” 17 August 2007, The Nation
2007 “Amnesty’s Sticky Wicket,” Himal Southasian, May 2007, 66-67.
2003 “Expectations great and small,” Lanka Monthly Digest, May 2003.
2002a “Tigerland. Tamil rebels ready to talk,” New Internationalist, 1 May 2002, p. 8.
2002b “Self-Determination(s) and the Tamils,” Sunday Observer,
2002c “The many faces of Eelam,” Daily Mirror, 8 August 2002 (also appeared in Tamil Times, August 2002 [original title = “The Meaning of Eelam”].
2002d “Hyphenated Lankans,” Lanka Monthly Digest, August 2002, pp. 129, 131.
2002e “Vijaya: interpreting our civilisational myth,’ Sunday Observer, 1 September 2002.
2002f “Sri Lankanness: do we have races or are we hybrid?” Sunday Observer, 15 September 2002. [Original title: “Being hybrid in Sri Lanka”].
2002g “LTTE’s ideological retreat,” Sunday Observer, 13 October 2002. [original title: “Sri Lankan and Ilavar”]
2001 “Dakunen sädi kotiyo, uturen golu muhudai,” [Wicked-cum-vile Tigers to the south and the turbulent sea to the north], Pravāda, vol 6, no. 11, pp. 17-18.
2000b “History as dynamite,” Pravāda, vol. 6, no. ?, pp. 11-13. Also published in the Island Special Millennium Issue, 1 Jan 2000, pp. 43-44.
2000c “The Sri Lankan identity,” Lanka Monthly Digest, November 2000, vol 7: 4, pp. 43-44.
2000a “Lanka without Vijaya. Towards the new millennium,” Lanka Monthly Digest, Jan. 2000, vol. 6: p. 27.
1999c “Self-Immolation,” Lanka Monthly Digest, September 1999, vol 6:2, pp. 56-7.
1996 “Understanding Zealotry”, IIAS Newsletter, No. 7, Winter 1996, pp. 25-26; since reprinted in Celebrations. Fifty Years of Sri Lanka-Australia Interactions, ed. by C A & I H Vanden Driesen, Colombo: Government Printer, pp. 544-48.
Sri Lankan player Thilan Samaraweera is taken aboard an ambulance on March 4, 2009 shortly after flying home from Pakistan where the Sri Lankan team was ambushed by gunmen just before entering a cricket stadium in Lahore. Seven players were wounded in the attack that also killed eight Pakistani nationals and drew wide spread international condemnation. AFP PHOTO/ISHARA S. KODIKARA
03 Mar 2009, LAHORE, Pakistan — epa01653439 Bodies of the Pakistani policemen lie on the ground, after unknown gunmen attacked Sri Lankan cricket team, in Lahore Pakistan on 03 March 2009. Unidentified gunmen on 03 March attacked Sri Lanka’s cricket team when it was being escorted to a local stadium in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, leaving six policemen and two civilians dead and four Sri Lankan players injured, media reports and officials said. EPA/STRINGER EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT — Image by © STRINGER/epa/Corbis
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A SPECIAL NOTE
Items in one of my old web sites are still accessible: VISIT … ..……………. https://sacrificialdevotionnetwork.wordpress.com/
