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Wuhan: Slavoj Žižek’s Reflections against the Common Grain
Slavoj Žižek, in Die Welt, February 2020 ll those, who want to put all of China under quarantine, should be ashamed, says philosopher Slavoj Žižek. And longs for a world, where a dreadful event like the corona epidemic would have … Continue reading →
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Deciphering Sri Lanka’s Relations with the IMF
Premachandra Athukorala, an article taken from Daily FT, where t has appeared on the 30th September 2021 in three parts, under this title “Sri Lanka and the IMF: Myth and reality” The decision to go to the IMF for assistance … Continue reading →
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Lanka’s Measured Diplomatic Appointments in Key Capitals
Daya Gamage, in Asian Tribune US Bureau Diplomatic Note, Septmber 2020, with this title “Sri Lanka enters into rational foreign policy with key dip. appointments” Sri Lanka administration under the Rajapaksa brothers has given a strong indication that it is moving … Continue reading →
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Ruki Fernando on Recent Questionings & Intimidation from Governmental ‘Arms’ ‘
An Email Memo from Ruki Fernando, a human rights activist within Sri Lanka Dear Michael, I present herewith some personal information in response to your Memo. Please find a a report, based on both incidents reported in mostly local media, but … Continue reading →
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An Exploration: Discerning How a Sinhalayā in Kandyan Times BECAME Sinhala
Michael Roberts, reproducing here an old draft that is entitled “Becoming Sinhala” *** Preamble The scene is somewhere early in 1984 and the location is the building housing the Social Scientists’ Association on the road to Nawala off Narahenpitiya in … Continue reading →
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Modernist Fundamentalism: Missing the Force of Walk, Talk and Majesty in Sinhaladom
Michael Roberts Asanga Welikala edited an important book entitled The Republic at Forty in 2012 in which I participated (CPA, 2012). Both Welikala and Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne have formidable curriculum-vitae behind them. Their recent intervention in criticism of the Rajapaksa … Continue reading →
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Reading Stephen Champion’s Photo Event in 2008 …. Today 2020
Michael Roberts When I came across some ‘new’ material[1] of great import relating to KP Pathmanathan’s valiant efforts to extricate the LTTE leadership from their deteriorating military situation in early 2009 and to whisk them away to Eritrea with the … Continue reading →
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World Giants Face-to-Face in Economic Warfare
Martin Wolf, in Financial Review, 5 June 2019, with this title “Prepare for the 100-year war between the US and China” …with underlining emphasis added by The Editor, Thuppahi The disappearance of the Soviet Union left a big hole. … Continue reading →
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Mahindapala on Trump and USA after Trump with Kamala Harris in the Biden Team
H. L. D. Mahindapala, in LankaWeb, November 2020, where the title reads: “Post-Trump America with Biden – not to mention Kamala Harris” …. highlighting by Editor, Thuppahi Say what you like against Donald Trump, the man was a phenomenon. Whether … Continue reading →
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Pablo Neruda and Thangamma … His Work in Ceylon
Dr. Kumar Gunawardane. in Island, 13 June 2020, where the title runs “Neruda and his daughter” “It’s night time , I’m alone and sad, Thinking in the light of a flickering candle, about joy and pain, about tired old age, … Continue reading →
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