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The ISLAND Editorial …. Before the Military Assault at Galle Face Green
Editorial in THE ISLAND, 22 July 2022 …… before the Storming of the ARAGALAYA camp on Galle Face Green by security forses on that day viz TODAY 22 July 2022 TITLE = “An honourable defeat” Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in … Continue reading →
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Filed under accountability, authoritarian regimes, centre-periphery relations, constitutional amendments, economic processes, governance, historical interpretation, island economy, legal issues, life stories, political demonstrations, politIcal discourse, power politics, press freedom & censorship, Rajapaksa regime, riots and pogroms, security, self-reflexivity, truth as casualty of war, vengeance, world events & processes
Taking to Street: Protests typically Lankan in Style
Mey Lankaava Neydha!!! …… !!!
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Filed under accountability, centre-periphery relations, democratic measures, disparagement, economic processes, energy resources, governance, island economy, landscape wondrous, life stories, patriotism, performance, photography, politIcal discourse, power politics, press freedom, Rajapaksa regime, security, self-reflexivity, sri lankan society, taking the piss, trauma, unusual people
Full Frontal: Confronting Diaspora Tamil Canards in Canada
Legal fund for fighting against Bill 104 TGEWA https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-for-fighting-against-bill-104Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition is organizing this fundraiser. Campaign to repeal Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA), for the sake of all Sri Lankans Dear Friends, The Ontario provincial government of … Continue reading →
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British Ceylon Deciphered by Stress on the Deep Structures of Social Togetherness
Uditha Devapriya, in The Island on 24 March 2023, with this title “Sri Lanka under British rule: Neither Gemeinschaft nor Gesellschaft” Since at least Marx and Malinowski, anthropologists have been fascinated by, and focused on, the links between “primitive-tribal” and … Continue reading →
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Filed under accountability, ancient civilisations, British colonialism, centre-periphery relations, commoditification, cultural transmission, economic processes, education, gordon weiss, heritage, historical interpretation, Indian traditions, island economy, land policies, landscape wondrous, legal issues, life stories, meditations, politIcal discourse, religiosity, self-reflexivity, sri lankan society, welfare & philanthophy, working class conditions, world events & processes
An Unimaginable Outcome from the ARAGALA Revolt: Ranil As President
Malinda Seneviratne, in his web column https://malindawords.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-aragalaya-postscript.html Ranil Wickremesinghe is no longer president in an acting capacity. He is the president, period. Did someone say ‘I don’t know whether to laugh or cry?’ I am pretty sure someone did. Did … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka Today as “Paradise” in Pieces …. Deeply Decimated
Capt. Elmo Jayawardena, in The Island, early February 2023, where the title runs thus: “75 Years – What have they done? It is a paradise misplaced” Our island was called Lanka in pre-King Vijaya times. Valmiki’s immortal Ramayanaya had King … Continue reading →
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While Lanka Sinks … Two Ministers at Loggerheads
Sanjeewa Jayaweera, in The Island, 8 January 2023, with this title “IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA A HERO OR VILLAIN?” Currently there is an ongoing tussle between the Power & Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera … Continue reading →
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Ganeshananthan’s & Karunatitilaka’s Novels Reviewed by Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan: “Even As A Ghost” in The New York Review of Books, 18 January 2024 … reaching me via a tennis-mate Ralph Schlomowitz who is a ‘religious’ adherent of the NYRB and matters highbrow;while Amaasiiri De Silva in New … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka as Paradox: A Schizoid Republic?
Lakshman Gunasekara, in Daily FT, 14 May 2022, where the title reads: “Paradoxes of a schizoid Republic” Attackers’ roared obscenities, screams of victims, the thunk of metal poles on defenceless humans and, the crack of smashed protester shelters, … Continue reading →
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Jihadist Terror in Lahore: Some Thuppahi References … & BBC Revelations from Bayliss & Farbrace
A = “When Terrorism assailed Cricket at Lahore,” 3 March 2009………….. https://thuppahis.com › 2017/10/30 › when-terrorism-a………………………. 30 Oct 2017 — This analysis is available as “Cricket under Siege: The Lahore Attack, … Filed under accountability, atrocities, authoritarian regimes, … B = The Lahore Assault on the … Continue reading →
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