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An Expat’s Bitter Interpretation of the Progress from Ceylon in 1948 … till Today
Charles Seevali Abeysekera ++ Sri Lanka is officially bankrupt and a failed state in all but name. How did a country of 22 million people with a level of literacy on par with most of the developed world end up … Continue reading →
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DIG Jingle Dissanayake’s Report on the JVP in Lanka, 4th November 1974
A NOTE from Michael Roberts, 27 November 2023 This file is among the documentary material under my name in the Special Collections, Barr Smith Library, Adelaide University and Samantha Farnsworth, its chief, sent me a pdf copy I cannot recall … Continue reading →
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Ukridge of Uxbridge, Ukridge of Ukraine
Michael Patrick O’Leary, aka Padraig Colman, presenting an essay that did not make the top grade To help me through these troubled times, this sordid age, I have been bingeing on the oeuvre of the Divine Plum, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. … Continue reading →
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The Fate of the Roma Gypsies in Europe: From Nazi Holocaust to Continuous Marginalization
Celia Donert, in History Today, February 2022, where the title reads “The Roma Holocaust” Europe’s Roma were the victims of Nazi genocide during the Second World War, but their persecution did not end in 1945 Robert Ritter, head of … Continue reading →
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Blood on Putin’s Hands from Way Back
Michael Patrick O’Leary …. The PADRAIG, in Ceylon Today, …. whose chosen title = “Putin’s Bloody Past” …. Part One” From 2007 to 2013, Catherine Belton was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times. She currently … Continue reading →
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DB Dhanapala’s AMONG THOSE PRESENT
Ravindra Wijewardhane, in Sunday Observer, 25 July 2021, where the title readsv “One of Dhanapala’s best books” This is a collection of newspaper articles on important people who shaped events in Sri Lanka and even made history. Published in 1962, … Continue reading →
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Ernest Macintyre’s SILINDU of BADDEGAMA
A play in five acts derived and adapted from LEONARD WOOLF’S novel THE VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE. SILUNDU OF BADDEGAMA, by Ernest Macintyre, was first performed at the Erindale Theatre Canberra on 16 April 1994
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The Machinations of Vellala Lawyer Leaders that Deepened Tamil-Sinhala Divisions from the 1920s-to-the-1960s
Sebastian Rasalingam, reproducing an article presented in 2008 in The Sri Lanka Guardian in October 2008 with this title “An Excellent and Timely Feature on the Tamils” ** Please permit me to make some comments on the recent article on … Continue reading →
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The Limits of Empiricist Reasoning in Analytical Studies of the Past
Michael Roberts …. being a presentation again of an article presented in June 2014 in the Sri Lanka Guardian with the title “Fashioning History in Sri Lanka.” …. http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2014/06/fashioning-history-in-sri-lanka.html There are several interpersonal exchanges which moulded my thinking before I … Continue reading →
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Vale Harry Belafonte: A Labouring Seaman’s Son …. Superstar & Activist
HILLEL ITALIE in Associated Press, 25 April 2023, ….“Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96” … with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a ground-breaking actor and singer … Continue reading →
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