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Peter Mayer: Straddling USA-India-Australia via Academia
Michael Roberts The world of university lecturers is quite varied and cannot be easily distilled. My experience is mostly based on my years teaching at Peradeniya University n Sri Lanka (1960-62 & 1966-76) and Adelaide University from 1978-2004—besides exposures to … Continue reading →
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Andrew Fernando’s Clinical Assessment of Sri Lanka’s Prospects in T20 World Cup
Andrew Fidel Fernando, in ESPNcricinfo, October 2021, where the chosen title is “Not a lot is expected of Sri Lanka, and that may free them up to punch big” If you look at a certain set of statistics, you’d think … Continue reading →
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Sir Garfield Sobers: A Cricketing Genius
Rex Clementine, in The Island, 28 July 2021, where the title is “Cricket’s greatest is 85 today” Sir Don Bradman called him the ‘greatest cricketing being to have ever walked the earth,’ and in Sri Lanka, he is considered as someone … Continue reading →
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USA’s Hegemonic Designs Sustain A Dangerous Wonderland
Jean-Pierre Page, whose preferred title is “The Longer Telegram and “sleepy Joe”in Wonderland! The Biden Administration appears to be implementing most of the recommendations in the Atlantic Council’s Longer Telegram: Toward a new American China strategy, an important strategic document about US policy towards China published in January 2021. This document is one of a troika produced by the … Continue reading →
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The Madugalle Genealogy from Way Back
Item from “Sri Lanka Kandyan Sinhala Family Genealogy” MADUGALLE – Family #3116 The village or Wasagama of Madugalle is in Gampaha Korale East of Upper Dumbara and is bounded by Gandeke Korale in the North and Kanpala KJorale in the … Continue reading →
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Cricketing Stars who stimulated Ceylon Cricket
A. C. de S., in Sunday Observer, 30 May 2004, where the tiltle is “Ceylon privileged to be coached by cricketing knights” Sri Lanka has had the good fortune of witnessing six great cricketing knights play in the country and … Continue reading →
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Not all Issues are Black or White: Some Voices from the Offspring of Cross-Cultural Marriages
Audrey Maxwell [nee Roberts] … a chapter in Rosemary Breger and Rosana Hill (eds). Cross-Cultural Marriage. Identity and Choice, Oxford, Berg, 1998, …. ISBN 1 85973 968 7 paper … with this reproduction being rendered possible by our nephew-in-law Tissa … Continue reading →
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Murderous Mayhem at a Rural Junction in North Western Lanka, 1983-1989
Liyanage Amarakeerthi, whose chosen title is “A Fatal Intersection: Three Small Shops in North Western Sri Lanka that No Longer Exist” …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor Thuppahi I was born and raised in a little community in Kuliyapitiya, … Continue reading →
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Orations. Where Mia prospers and Gotha …
Omar Rajarathnam, in Factum, 22 November 2021, where the title reads “Factum Perspective – Speech lessons for Lankan leaders from Barbados PM” Sri Lankan leaders in recent times have often struggled to effectively advocate for the country’s interest at international … Continue reading →
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Child Soldiers in the LTTE, 2009 …. Eelam War IV
Matt Wade, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 May 2009, …. where the title runs thus “Kill or be killed: 11-year-olds forced to fight for Tamil Tigers” IT IS hard to imagine Christine* in combat. But the diminutive 14-year-old with … Continue reading →
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