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A Meeting of Cultures: The Unique Vernacular Chapel at Trinity College, Kandy
Ranil Bibile … reproducing an old essay without all its pictorial embellishments because the author does not have the original photos in his computer “as .jpegs as the articles were composed 20+ years ago and there have been many computer changes … Continue reading →
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A Voice on THE VOICE ….. Its Double Standards
Peta Credlin in The Sunday Telegraph, 7 October 2023, where the title runs thus “Voice’s Yes campaign full of deceit and double standards” The unauthorised protesters who marched through Sydney this week spewing anti-Semitic bile and screaming “Gas the Jews” … Continue reading →
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Cyril Ponnamperuma: An Incisive Scientific Researcher ….. In World Class
Sachi Sri Kantha This is an updated version of a manuscript, previously submitted to the Ceylon Medical Journal in 1996. It was rejected for publication by the then editorial team. I was not informed of any specific reason for rejection, … Continue reading →
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Estelle Fernando nee Roberts: Vale in Sadness & Fellowship
Michael Roberts Estelle Barbara Roberts was born as the second child from the second bed of Thomas Webb Roberts (1881-1978) on the 2nd May 1929. She was brought up within the Fort of Galle and received her education at Southlands, … Continue reading →
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Let’s Remove the Colonial Tropes in the Writings on Sri Lanka
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose preferred title is “Decolonizing July 1983’s Fiction and History for a Post-Ethnic Sri Lanka: Tropes of Violence and Cold War at the end of the American Century” “Fair is foul and foul is fair”— William Shakespeare, Macbeth … Continue reading →
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Remembering David Hookes: A Moving Farewell at Adelaide Oval, 27 January 2001
Michael Roberts reproducing an article from his pen in Baggy Green …. one that was subsequently presented as an E-Paper . The original article carried the title “The Old and the New: In Memoriam, David Hookes” On 25 March 2001 … Continue reading →
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Mehdi Hasan’s U-Tube Interview with Ranil Wickremasinghe
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa, in Groundviews, …. https://groundviews.org/2025/03/07/sentiment-analysis-of-ranil-wickremesinghes-al-jazeera-interview-with-mehdi-hasan/ Renowned journalist Mehdi Hasan interviewed the former president Ranil Wickremesinghe on a programme of Head to Head, produced by Al Jazeera. The programme was released to YouTube and first broadcast on March 6. … Continue reading →
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Polyandry, Hierarchy & Rumours Today in a ‘Traditional’ Kandyan Sinhala Village
Jayantha Perera, whose chosen title is “ekagei kaema (polyandry) – a way of life in the Kandyan highlands” … in The Island, 11 August 2024 Hingula is a small bazaar 60 miles from Colombo on the Colombo-Kandy Road. A narrow, tarred … Continue reading →
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Caste Issues in Sri Lanka: A Partial Bibliography
Michael Roberts I came across this undated list in my computer files — one drawn up quite sometime back, maybe 20 years back. Though I would seem to have been part of the enterprise, some spellings suggest the involvement of … Continue reading →
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Escalation of Attacks on Hindu Shrines in Northern Lanka
Meera Srinivasan, in The Hindu, 23 April 2023, whee the title reads thus: “Tamils flag escalating attacks on temples in northern Sri Lanka” … with highlighting added by The Editor, Thuppahi Several Tamil parties have called for a protest on … Continue reading →
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