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Meaningful Violence: Reflections on the Dynamic of Human Sacrifice

William Harman, reprint from Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 119-35…. Note year of presentation, viz. 2000….. so that, clearly, this essay is not informed by any writings on the topic after 1999. See Addendum at end. … Continue reading →

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Wild Life Reserves of Sri Lanka

Marcel Bandaranaike, courtesy of The Aloysian, April and August issues, 2014 Mihintale, in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura located in the North Central province of Sri Lanka is said to be the world’s first recorded (247 BC) wild life & … Continue reading →

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A Foreign Tour Agent’s Balmy View of Sri Lanka

Keith Austin ** A little more than three years ago, Sri Lanka was a basket case, and had been for more than a quarter of a century, as civil war ravaged the country. Sri Lankan-born novelist Michael Ondaatje, in his … Continue reading →

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Magnificently lost on a bike in Sri Lanka

Iain Mackay This track definitely wasn’t on the map, and it certainly wasn’t on the  Google earth print-out I was using to navigate. I was twenty miles north east of Unawatuna in the south of Sri Lanka and it was … Continue reading →

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An Idyllic “Homestay” in Sri Lanka … with Suzy and Bhatiya Ratwatte

Mark Hodson, in The Daily ,News, 13 June 2014, where the original title reads “Sri Lanka: Lush jungle, paddy fields and gastronomical delights”   “Sorry about the weather, we were hoping for rain,” said Suzy Ratwatte as she looked out … Continue reading →

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Raj Rajaratnam as a Kinda’ Tiger

David Rose in Vanity Fair at http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/09/tamil-and-raj-201109… [and see additons at end re sentencing]. Pic courtesy of google Earlier this year, Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund, was convicted of conspiracy and securities fraud in one of the … Continue reading →

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