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A City within Colombo City in the Hands of Cecil Balmond
Alvin Sallay, in Sunday Times, 30 December 2018, … where the title is “Infinity and beyond with Balmond and Cinnamon Life” Cecil Balmond has borrowed my pen. I’m watching the master at work, bent over my reporter’s notebook, as he … Continue reading →
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Suicide Missions as Witnessing: From Self-Immolation to Assassination and Mass Strike
Michael Roberts ….. This article appeared first in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2007, vol. 30: 857-88.with the title “Suicide Missions as Witnessing: Expansions, Contrasts” and is reproduced here with its original American English spelling. The re-working of this article … Continue reading →
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The Many Strands of Extremism TODAY: Salafi, Racial, Chauvinist and HR
Michael Roberts, reproducing an essay presented in Colombo Telegraph in 2015 with the title “Secular Fundamentalism in One-Eyed Overkill” …. because of indications that personnel pushing rights-programmes take adamantine positions that blind them to their own distortions and rigidity of … Continue reading →
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The Voices of Tiger and Army Infantrymen: Sarah Kabir’s Journey towards Reconciliation
Sarah Chatta in Daily News, 9 October 2018, where the chosen title reads thus “Faces of the war” …Stories from both sides of the barbed wire tell of the pain of ordinary lives German native Nicolas Lamade leaned over and … Continue reading →
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Different Worlds: Upali Mahaliyana’s Novel
Upali Mahaliyana’s Introductory Note This is NOT my autobiography. Although Ajith, the main Character in this novel, shares the times and a part of his background with me, he is a completely different person who had a very different character … Continue reading →
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A History of Political Machinations directed against Nagananda Kodithuwakku
Victor Ivan, in Ravaya, where the title is “Barring of Nagananda Kodituwakku from Practicing Law” The Supreme Court has issued an order barring Nagananda Kodithuwakku , Attorneyat-Law and Public Interest Litigation Activist who has entered the political arena of Sri … Continue reading →
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The Christchurch Killer’s Dungeon of a Mind
ONE = Greg Sheridan: “A Manifesto for a Dark Age,” in The Australian, 23 March 2019 The manifesto of Brenton Tarrant, the alleged Christchurch gunman, displays an extreme contemporary embodiment of six historical trends. It is the mirror in morality, … Continue reading →
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A Wiradjuri Woman Medico becomes South Australia’s Rhodes Scholar for 2018
ONE: News Item from University of Adelaide: “Indigenous Doctor is Rhodes Scholar for South Australia,” 26 October 2017 Outstanding University of Adelaide medical graduate Dr Claudia Paul has become the third Australian Indigenous person to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, … Continue reading →
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The Suntharalingam Family’s Journey: Sri Lanka to Australia
Matthew Westwood, in The Weekend Australian Review, 5-6 January 2019, where the title is “Counting and Cracking: a family’s journey” … with some snaps and a partial bibliography added by The Editor, Thuppahi In the complicated and at times bitterly … Continue reading →
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1948-2019: Intertwined Trajectories summed up …. Sri Lanka and Personnel
Michel Nugawela, in Daily Financial Times, 4 February 2019 In search of a story: Professor Simon Anholt, who coined the term ‘nation brand’, once asked, “If the hand of God should accidentally slip on the celestial keyboard tomorrow and … Continue reading →
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