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July 15, 2025 · 11:37 am

Biographical Paths in Sri Lankan History … via Hits in Thuppahi  

A NOTE from Michael Roberts, 15 July 2025 Biographical tales are one of the paths in historical investigation.  Such tales attract many readers because they flesh out lifeways and resonate with personal recollections. The WORD PRESS website provides the Thuppahi-Editor … Continue reading →

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April 17, 2026 · 9:00 pm

Ceylon-England-Portugal …. With Ajit on a Rollicking Ramble

Ajit Varuna Rodrigo-Candappa, … with highlights imposed by the Thuppahi who is cheered by AJIT’s free-wheeling baila-script Hi Michael,  ………..Your site evokes warm hearts, kind reflections – it dispels the aralu-bulu-nelli of weasel political concoctions about race. The sheer puhu-manya … Continue reading →

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September 1, 2024 · 2:37 pm

Machiavelli on The Vicious ‘Skeletons’ Inherent Within Politics

A CIRCULAR from Kumar Kirinde … … with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Dear RAFOA member, Now that another presidential election is due in a few weeks’ time in our beloved country … Sri Lanka. I thought that … Continue reading →

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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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September 26, 2023 · 9:36 pm

Asoka Handagama’s “Alborada” penetrates Chile

Eda Cleary, in Sunday Observer, 24 September 2023.…  with highlighting imposed by the Editor, Thuppahi The film Alborada by director Asoka Handagama was premiered in Chile recently with the Director of the Film School of the University of Valparaiso, film professor … 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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April 22, 2026 · 12:43 pm

Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe: Pioneer Marxist Thinker & Leader

Shiran Illanperuma, whose essay marks Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe’s 125 birth anniversary and is entitled “The doctor who felt the people’s pulse” April 13 marked the 125 birth anniversary of S.A. Wickramasinghe, a national freedom fighter and founder of the … 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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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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