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“Stay Resolute. Visit Lanka” says Juliet from Galle
Juliet Coombe … SRI LANKA NEEDS YOU! If you really want to make a difference in the world right now, book or support someone else who was planning a trip to go to Sri Lanka or extend your stay if already in … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka Cricket Administration: Prospects, Ramifications and Recent History
Rex Clementine, Island, 22 December 2018, where the title is “New hope after promise to make cricket corruption free” Newly appointed Sports Minister Harin Fernando’s claims to take every step possible to make cricket corruption free has struck a responsive … Continue reading →
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Gandhara: Civilisation at the Crossroads
Sachitra Mahendra, Daily News, 20 March 2019, March 20, 2019, “A Talk at the Seminar on Buddhist and Gandhara Civilisation: The Cultural Nexus between Pakistan and Sri Lanka”
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Inhumane: Ruminations from A Pictorial Tale
Charles Sarvan, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, 19 March 2019, where the title is “ On ‘Reading’ A Picture” …. Note that I have taken the liberty of inserting emphasis in colour and introducing more paragraph divisions in Charlie Sarvan … Continue reading →
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Addressing Post-war Dilemmas in Sri Lanka
Laksiri Fernando, review article in Sri Lanka Guardian, 30 March 2019, entitled “The power ambitions and competitions of the elite are highly asymmetric” Political science and political scientists, among others, could play a major role in resolving Sri Lanka’s most … Continue reading →
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Deciphering Chauvinism through Incidents of Confrontation
Michael Roberts In recently facing up to internet challenges and clarifying the term “chauvinism,” I proceeded at a general level and presented definitions within a comparative framework that brought the concepts of “racism” and “tribalism” into our framework of analysis.[1] … Continue reading →
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The ‘Devonshire’ reaches Queensland with 500 ‘Cingalese’ Coolies in 1882
Thiru Arumugam. courtesy of THE CEYLANKAN, vol XXI: 4, November 2019, where the title is “How 500 Ceylonese arrived in Queensland in 1882 in the s.s. Devonshire to work in the cane fields” In 1882 about 500 Ceylonese were recruited … Continue reading →
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Gananath Obeyesekere’s 1975 Article on Murder by Sorcery
Gananath Obeyesekere: “Sorcery and Premeditated Murder: The Canalization of Aggression”[1] In this paper I want to deal with a series of interrelated problems beginning with the following specific questions and propositions. First: how far can we make inferences about the … Continue reading →
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Bangladesh Team’s Ball-by-Ball Terror at Christchurch, 15 March 2019
Mohamed Isam in ESPNcricinfo, 15 March 2009, where the title is “There’s shooting here, please save us’,” My day began looking for injury updates on Kane Willliamson, BJ Watling, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim. There was a Test due to … Continue reading →
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The HR Lobby in UK: Deskbound and Devious
Michael Roberts The human rights lobby in UK (hereafter HR) has the International Crisis Group, Chatham House and the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice serving among the spearheads of the campaign for a political transformation of Sri Lanka … Continue reading →
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