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The Ceylon University College: Its First Fifteen Years, 1920-35
Thiru Arumugam, reproduced courtesy of THE CEYLANKAN August 2019 issue. The Ceylon University College (CUC) was founded in Colombo in 1921 and prepared students for the external degree examinations of the University of London. It ceased to exist in 1942 … Continue reading →
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A Chilling and Terrifying Word-Picture of USA Today
David Kilcullen, in The Inquirer, 30 May 2020 and the Australian, 4 June 2020, with this title “Home of the hateful, fearful, heavily armed” ….. Coronavirus is threatening to ignite a tinderbox of grievances in the US. The growing parallels … Continue reading →
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Spreading Knowledge via Light: Anduren Eliyata That Sydney-based Charitable Enterprise
Michael Roberts ANDUREN ELIYATA was initiated as a charitable organisation by 71-year old Chandra Fernando in Sydney in 2014 with a focus on providing solar-powered units to needy families and schoolchildren in Sri Lanka. Its successful outreach has now prompted … Continue reading →
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Embracing the LTTE Strategy in 2008/09: Norway, USA, UK, France and the Human Rights Conglomerate as Complicit Tiger Allies
Michael Roberts In his wide-ranging autobiographical tale of his numerous engagements in Sri Lanka and for Sri Lanka Michael Lord Naseby has condemned the LTTE for its deployment of so many Tamil civilians as a “human shield” and “bargaining counter” … Continue reading →
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Hate. Where An Incisive Cartoon provokes Australian Invective
Michael Leunig, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 2019, where the title runs thus: “Aiming to stir the possum, I got engulfed in free-floating hate” It was exactly 50 years ago that I started working as a full-time newspaper … Continue reading →
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The Vicious Political Fervour promoted by Social Media Today
Michael Roberts My past studies of ethnic pogroms in Sri Lanka and India alerted me to the power of oral communication and emotional voices in sparking retaliation against an ethnic other in neighbourhood or region.[1] In May-June 1915 oral tales … Continue reading →
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“White Christmas” was fashioned by Irving Berlin, A Jewish Immigrant in USA
Rich Tenorio, an essay penned on 24 December 2019 and entitled “How Jewish-American immigrant Irving Berlin started a Christmas revolution” The best version of White Christmas was done by Elvis. Berlin was highly critical of him for “desecrating” his song. … Continue reading →
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PUL ELIYA Comments reviewed critically by Ceylon Civil Servants for ROHP
“PUL ELIYA” QUOTATIONS AS PRESENTED to the CCS and other personnel I quote some passages from a book by Dr. E. Leach entitled “Pul Eliya A Village in Ceylon” (Cambridge, 1961). He is a socia1anthropologist who lived for several months … Continue reading →
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American SOFA Proposals generates Sharp Debate
Marwaan Macan-Markar, Asia regional correspondent, Daily FT, 14 August 2019, with this title “US-Sri Lanka military negotiations hit a roadblock” A Sri Lankan marine stands guard in front of Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga docked at Colombo port. Japan, along with … Continue reading →
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Stanley Jayaweera as Sturdy Administrator & Diplomat – A Vale from a Son
Rajeewa Jayaweera, in Sunday Island, 2 February 2020, where the title runs – “A bygone era diplomat of perspicacity. A third-year remembrance of my father” ‘If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose … Continue reading →
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