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Assorted Data on Walter T. Stace
A = A Note from Lucy McCann at the Bodleian Library in Oxford – Michael Roberts, some years back… At the Institute of Commonwealth Studies there is an autobiography of W.T. Stace as a civil servant in Ceylon, written in … 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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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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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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Anthropology in Depth … Far & Wide: Q & A with Bruce Kapferer
BRUCE KAPFERER Interviewed by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, …. date not up front Photo by Andy Lewis. Moving at the margins to re-center anthropology. From having been supervised by Bruce Kapferer and having worked on and off with him since 1999, 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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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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Travels & Travails: Cycling Along Australia’s Ocean Roads
An Editor’s Apologetic Note, August 2025 I got to know Eardley because his anthropological fieldwork and dissertation in Uva in Sri Lanka came to m attention way back, maybe in the 1980s when I was teaching in Adelaide. I think … 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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For Lanka: The Profound Interventions of Pauline & Dick Hensman
Rohini Hensman, in a commemorative essay about her politically committed parents in the SSA journal POLITY in 2023 where the title runs “A Hundred Years of Pauline And C. R. (Dick) Hensman” The birth anniversaries of Pauline Hensman (née Swan) … Continue reading →
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