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Deciphering Sri Lanka’s Relations with the IMF
Premachandra Athukorala, an article taken from Daily FT, where t has appeared on the 30th September 2021 in three parts, under this title “Sri Lanka and the IMF: Myth and reality” The decision to go to the IMF for assistance … Continue reading →
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Shakespeare’s “Cooking up a Past” AND Sri Lanka
Tom Shakespeare: “Çooking up a Past” in “Collection. No Small Inheritance” …. https://farmerofthoughts.co.uk/collected_pieces/cooking-up-a-past/ …. no date indicated …. but it was clearly written after the tsunami and, in my reckoning penned in late 2005. I have imposed haphazard highlighting …. and … Continue reading →
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Kamikaze, Mujahid, Tamil Tiger: Sacrificial Devotion in Comparative Lens
Michael Roberts, reprinting an essay drafted in 2007 and since presented in Fire & Storm in 2010 (chapter 19: 131-38) “Gandhi tried for years to reduce himself to zero” (Dennis Hudson 2002: 132). Hitler: “You are nothing, your nation is … Continue reading →
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Allahu Akbar! Missing Dimensions in Contemporary Reportage
Michael Roberts I recently watched a good part of Stephen Sackur’s dialogue with a French lady politician [whose name I have forgotten]. Sackur pursued his usual hard-line aggressive and bullying mode of questioning – posing vigorous criticisms of the French … Continue reading →
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Mike Pompeo laid Bare
George Koo & K J Noh in ASIA TIMES, 19 October 2020 … https://asiatimes.com/2020/10/pompeos-record-a-litany-of-failure/ Mike Pompeo, otherwise known as the international man of catastrophe, by wide acclaim, has earned a label as the worst secretary of state in the history of … Continue reading →
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Frederick Dornhorst and Royal College
Senaka Weeraratna Please note that the following article was provided on the 9th of July 2020, before the Dornhorst Memorial Prize was amended to be awarded to the Most Outstanding Royalist on the 16th of July 2020 “All Royalists of … Continue reading →
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Eduard Hempel Flourishes in Galle and Lanka
SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda, in Sunday Island, 26 July where the title is “ A Seeker after Many Truths, The Lives of Eduard Hempel” The canoe nudged its way through the deep brown water. It was thick and heavy, like treacle and … Continue reading →
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Authoritarian Populism is the Danger Ahead
Ahilan Kadirgamar, in Daily Mirror, 6 July 2020, where the title runs “Regimes in Times of Crisis: Authoritarian Populism, Bonapartism and Fascism” The crisis we face now is like a tectonic shift in the economy. Global production, the labour used … Continue reading →
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The JVP Movement Revisited
Mick Moore, reproducing an article he has sent — one placed in POLITY on the 20th September 2021…. http://ssalanka.org/insurrectionary-jvp-sri-lankan-state-mick-moore/. His prefered title is “The Insurrectionary JVP and the Sri Lankan State” …. The highlighting in the essay below are the … Continue reading →
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Cultural Cross-Fertilization as the Road to Amity
Raj Gonsalkorale, in DailyFT, 4 August 2020, with this title “The Northern Province: The centre for Tamil culture in Sri Lanka” As much as the Sinhala Buddhist culture and its richness should be recognized, the Tamil culture, in particular the … Continue reading →
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