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January 21, 2025 · 12:51 am

Victor Ivan, RIP: …. The Wikipedia Memo on Victor

Michael Roberts,  I got to know Victor at a convivial session at Ananda Chittambalam’s house in Bambalapitiya in 1989. Our common interests in the island’s history and its tempestuous present meant that we kept in sporadic touch. I have his … Continue reading →

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November 28, 2024 · 11:44 am

A Sri Lankan Author’s Work …”Offerings to a Blue God”

Offerings to the Blue God by Shirani Rajapakse Synopsis: A child saved from the tsunami finds herself trapped as a domestic slave, a young woman finds out the true face of her lover when she builds up the courage to visit … Continue reading →

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October 2, 2024 · 11:45 pm

Vale — Rex Clements, A Sri Lankan Virtuoso in Many Arts

Bedgar Perera DR. REX CLEMENTS ..… Sept. 8, 2023 was a very sad day for the 1964-68 batch of the Faculty of Agriculture of the then University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, as that was the day on which Dr. Rex Clements, … Continue reading →

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June 22, 2025 · 2:03 pm

Diego Garcia – Role in Middle Eastern War

Dr. Itay Gal in Jerusalem Post, in Jerusalem Post, June 2025 What is Diego Garcia? The US military base that will be key to operations against Iran ….?  What is there, what aircraft operate from it, and why could it … Continue reading →

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October 5, 2025 · 10:02 am

Becoming ‘Sinhalese’ or ‘Tamil’ in Sri Lanka

Michael Roberts, …… in 2008 The printed version of this essay can be found in Michael Roberts: FIRE and STORM. ESSAYS IN SRI LANKAN POLITICS, Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2010, Chapter 9 …… ISBN 978-955-665-134-8. It was presented earlier on … Continue reading →

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May 23, 2025 · 7:44 pm

“Masquerade” — A Plantation Bungalow in the Hills of Sri Lanka

Item in The Sunday Times of Sri Lanka … sent by Dushy Perera, a planter … rukrkaganana fellow … & intrepid traveller Masquerade! Looking more like a mansion than a bungalow, the Talawelele bungalow stands within sight of the Great Western … Continue reading →

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March 22, 2026 · 10:09 am

Featuring Sunil Bastian’s Stock of Publications

Michael Roberts  Way back in the 1970s-1990s when I visited  Sri Lanka in pursuit of my research interests two of the personnel whom I interacted with regularly were Sunil Bastian and Kumari Jayawardena –both with radical leanings of a Leftist … Continue reading →

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February 5, 2026 · 2:51 pm

Engaging Obeyesekere’s Wide-ranging Studies of the Kandyan Kingdom

Richard Simon, reviewing … The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom by Gananath Obeyesekere &  The Doomed King: A Requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinha by Gananath Obeyesekere In the deepening twilight of his career, the anthropologist and historian Gananath Obeyesekere … Continue reading →

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April 21, 2024 · 11:13 pm

Ushering in the New Year in Culturally Meaningful Manner in Colombo 

Uditha Devapriya and Pasindu Nimsara, whose preferred title is “Kévum, KrÏda, and Kadé: Avurudu in Colombo”  … from The Island, 19 April 2024 No Avurudu would be complete without an Avurudu Ulela. It has become part of our national social … Continue reading →

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September 24, 2023 · 9:53 pm

Rave Reviews of LAKE BEAUTY from Adelaidians

LAKE BEAUTY – A murder dissolves. Here’s what readers have to say: Justin La Brooy: “Lake Beauty is a novel based in rural Australia covering much of the first half of the last century.  It gives an exquisite glimpse into … Continue reading →

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