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August 17, 2013 · 5:23 am

Shulman’s Exploration of the Imagination in the South Indian Cultural World

Steven P. Hopkins, … a longer version of a review in South Asian History and Culture, vol. 3, no. 4, July 2013, pp. 424-26 (see below) Coming away from a close reading of this remarkable book one cannot help feeling … Continue reading →

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February 18, 2012 · 7:51 am

P.O.W. – Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler’s Reich

William Charles, reviewing Peter Monteath’s book on Australian POWs under Hitler, for the Adelaide Review, http://www.adelaidereview.com.au/article/867 Imagine yourself a prisoner of war at one of the teeming number of internment facilities spread the length and breadth of Hitler’s Reich. Upon … Continue reading →

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February 20, 2012 · 7:18 am

Vile and Bile on Web Sites

Padraig Colman, courtesy of The Nation, where a different title was deployed … SEE http://www.nation.lk/edition/feature-issues/item/2888-curse-of-the-conflict-junkies.html Throughout Sri Lanka, many heart-strings will have been tugged; many a tear will have welled in many an eye, at the pictures of the wedding … Continue reading →

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January 2, 2013 · 1:53 am

Degrees from the home computer? Death knell for universities?

Nathan Harden, in http://the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1352 where the title is “The End of the University as We Know It” In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased … Continue reading →

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October 9, 2013 · 2:10 am

Tributary Overlordship and Cakravarti Figures in Pre-British Lanka

Michael Roberts Darshani Ratnawalli* has recently deployed one motif within my book Sinhala Consciousness in the Kandyan Period, 1590s to 1815 in a perceptive and telling manner. The motif is the concept of “tributary overlordship.” Details from Robert Knox and … Continue reading →

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February 18, 2011 · 3:53 pm

A woman of two worlds, Thusitha Jayasundera

She’s probably the only Asian working with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was noted for her performance in ‘The Comedy Of Errors” . THUSITHA JAYASUNDERA tells JERRY PINTO more about herself and her career Halfway through Shakespeare’s ‘The Comedy of … Continue reading →

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May 12, 2011 · 8:11 am

Reading the geography of Sri Lankan island-ness: colonial repetitions, postcolonial possibilities

Tariq Jaleel Reprint from Contemporary South Asia, 17: 399-444 courtesy of Informaworld, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a917049547&fulltext=713240928 Abstract This article focuses on the cultural dimensions of Sri Lanka’s island geography. In particular it argues the importance of regarding the geography of Sri Lankan island-ness … Continue reading →

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