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CJR Le Mesurier: A British Civil Servant who challenged the Imperial Order
Michael Powell: article published in 2007 and entitled “Fragile Identities: The Colonial Consequences of CJR Le Mesurier in Ceylon” ABSTRACT of Article: In the many layered life of CJR Le Mesurier in Ceylon are themes that repeat and recur throughout … Continue reading →
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Tamils in Ancient and Medieval Sri Lanka: The Historical Roots of Ethnic Identity
Sirima Kiribamune, in Ethnic Studies Report, vol IV/1, January 1986, pp. 1-23 … article retrieved via meticulous work by Iranga Silva of the ICES, Kandy — in a committed labour of love “The past is intelligible to us only in … Continue reading →
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Profound & ‘Coloured’ Insights into Our Environmental Degradation
Prasad Abu Bakr, in Sunday Observer, 7 July 2019, …. http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2019/07/07/art/book-review-slow-cooked-thoughts This is a ‘must-read’ book for those who lived during that glorious past, which is quietly slipping out of our grasp. It is also one for the next generation, … Continue reading →
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Fresh Insights on the 4/21 Salafi Bombings in Sri Lanka
Samanth Subramanium, in New York Times, 2 July 2020, where the title reads “Two Wealthy Muslim Brothers became suicide Bombers, but Why?” There’s a video of the exact moment Inshaf Ibrahim decided to abandon his life as a rich young man and … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Prejudiced and Petty Rulers
Rifat Halim in LankaWeb, 22 August 2019, in http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2019/08/22/three-idiots-and-a-blind-woman/ Three Idiots is a classic Hindi movie that features a group of morons. Sri Lanka has gone one step further by producing three modayas and a blind woman in real life. Future historians … Continue reading →
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Tamil Tiger ‘Martyrs’: Regenerating Divine Potency?
This article from my pen was probably drafted in 2004. It appeared in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism vol. 28 in 2005 after the usual refereeing process. Some of the details and arguments have, in fact, been obliterated within my … Continue reading →
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The ‘Devonshire’ reaches Queensland with 500 ‘Cingalese’ Coolies in 1882
Thiru Arumugam. courtesy of THE CEYLANKAN, vol XXI: 4, November 2019, where the title is “How 500 Ceylonese arrived in Queensland in 1882 in the s.s. Devonshire to work in the cane fields” In 1882 about 500 Ceylonese were recruited … Continue reading →
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“Putting The World To Write” …. in Galle
An INVITATION to a Writing Event with a Title that is Right Talk, Tea & Book Launch Wednesday January 16th …. 3- 5 pm Jetwing Lighthouse The first Galle Literary Festival was launched in 2007 amid the chaos of the … Continue reading →
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Holy War Unmasked
Brian Victoria …… Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. John Donne Introduction: Is religion a force for peace or war? Or to borrow a phrase from the title of Christopher Hitchen’s book, God … Continue reading →
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D H Lawrence in Kandy 1922
Jane Russell D H Lawrence came to Ceylon with his wife Frieda in late February 1922. Lawrence once referred to the later years of his life, spent wandering from place to place across the world in search of relief from … Continue reading →
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