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Satha and De Saram: Outstanding Batsmen as well Prominent Jailbirds
Nicholas Brookes in The Cricket Monthly at ESPNcricinfo, 6 May 2019, where the title runs “The story of De Saram and Satha: batting geniuses who went to jail” …. Two of Sri Lanka’s greatest batsmen had memorable lives, but they … Continue reading →
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Richmond College and Its Principals … 1876-1994
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Insights into Victorian Ceylon’s Westernized Bourgeoisie via the Jeronis Pieris Letters
Yomal Senerath-Yapa,“Family sagas and a peek at Victorian Ceylon’s westernised bourgeoisie” in http://www.elanka.com.au/tag/yomal-senerath/ AND https://www.pressreader.com/sri-lanka/sunday-times-sri-lanka/20201108/282222308278502 …. 12 November 2020 = a REVIEW of the second edition of Facets of Modern Ceylon History -Through the Letters of Jeronis Pieris by Michael … Continue reading →
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Galle Fort: A Heritage Site under Threat from Gentrification?
Uditha Jinadasa Interviewed by Doreen van den Boogaart & Luc Bulten In the Spring of 2020 Dr. Uditha Jinadasa defended her dissertation ‘Changes in the Cultural Landscape and their Impacts on Heritage Management: A Study of Dutch Fort at Galle, … Continue reading →
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The Despicable. Perfidy Personified. Todays’ Trump in His Dumps
Jolly Somasundram, whose chosen title is “The Banana Republican: A Churl’s Last Stand” Nothing made him so despicable, as his manner of not conceding. To concede or not to concede, that is the question. Whether, ‘tis nobler in the mind … Continue reading →
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Fallacious Historical Claims pressed by Wigneswaran
Rienzie Wijetilleke and Kusum Wijetilleke, in Island, 4 September 2020,with this title “False perspectives of Wigneswaran” Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith’s recent comments regarding racial and religious politics were most timely. In a climate where religious leaders seek to become political … Continue reading →
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Argentina by the Balls! In The Tight Grip of USA & IMF
Esteban Almiron: “How Argentina has been trapped in neocolonial debt for 200 years: An economic history” .… 19 December 2022, https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/18/argentina-neocolonial-debt-history/ Argentina has constantly been trapped over two centuries in unpayable external debt owed to foreign imperial powers. This affects … Continue reading →
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Don Bradmen and His Men in Ceylon, 1948
Neville Jayaweera** The image of Don Bradman exercised almost a mesmeric hold over the imagination of my generation, i.e. of those born in the 1930s, in (then) Ceylon. The dominion he exercised was so absolute that even now, sixty something … Continue reading →
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A Critical American Reading of Lord Torrington’s Colonial Administration in 1851
Anonymous Author: The English in Ceylon” … in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. CLV, 1851 May, pp. 409-12. From https://www.alamy.com/lord-torrington-british-colonial-administrator-and-courtier-1851-engraving-image60158321.html BRITISH policy, or that system which the British Government has for ages systematically pursued, and … Continue reading →
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A Joust between a Tamil Nationalist and a Thuppahi Mongrel
Michael Roberts, in Sri Lanka Guardian, 12 September 2011 Early in September [2011] I circulated an item describing efforts mounted by private enterprise in cooperation with the Sri Lankan state (military as well as government agents) to alleviate the life world … Continue reading →
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