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Revisiting Critical Issues in Eelam War IV: Summarizing Citizen Silva’s The NUMBERS GAME
Michael Roberts: “Introducing ‘Numbers Game’ – A Detailed Study of the Last Stages of Eelam War IV,” …….. https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/introducing-numbers-game-a-detailed-study-of-the-last-stages-of-eelam-war-iv/…. on 1 May 2013 where 46 comments can be found …. while the version here has some highlighting that is not … Continue reading →
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Sorcery, Premeditated Murder, and the Canalization of Aggression in Sri Lanka
Gananath Obeyesekere, being an academic article [1] published initially in 1975 in the American Ethnologist, Vol. 14, pp.1-23 …. and is also available in pamphlet form as No. 11 in the Studies in Society and Culture Series organised by the … Continue reading →
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Speaking of the Self: Gender Issues in South Asia
Niroshini Somasundaram, in IIAS Newsletter, reviewing A. Malhotra & S. Lambert-Hurley. 2015. Speaking of the self: gender, performance, and autobiography in South Asia. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822359838 In the last few decades, scholars of South Asian history have disputed the … Continue reading →
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Jorge Lewinski’s “The Camera at War” and Other Achievements
Jerzy Lewinski (Jorge Lewinski), photographer: born Lwów, Poland 25 March 1921; Senior Lecturer in Photography, London College of Printing 1968-82; twice married (two sons, one stepdaughter); died London 31 January 2008. Mike von Joel: “Jorge Lewinski: Portrait photographer who captured … Continue reading →
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Implications of the Local Government Elections February 2018: An Incisive Review
Dayan Jayatilleka It was the well-established, UNP and West-friendly website ECONOMYNEXT that broke the story using the ‘L’ Word—Landslide: “Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s proxy was set for an unexpected landslide victory in Saturday’s local council elections…Unofficial results showed that the … Continue reading →
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Dissecting “Liberalism” and the Demons within Its Western Expressions
Uditha Devapriya, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, August 2017 where the title is “Liberalism: Getting Out While You Can”…….. and where this intriguing and thoughtful essay drew fewer comments than normal In Jordan Peele’s intriguing film Get Out, a White American family lures … Continue reading →
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Sinhala-Tamil Tussles in the Mythical Netherworld of Rāvanā
Ranga Kalugampitiya, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, dated 20 July 2015, where the title runs ‘Rāvanā & Sinhala Buddhism: A Strained Relationship Ridden With Contradictions”…. The version here being embellished with Editorial highlighting. Rāvanā, one of the principal characters in the Rāmāyana, … Continue reading →
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Kataragama, Yala and Festive All That
Juliet Coombe in Daily News, 12 August 2017, where the title runs “Hidden Rituals Juliet Coombe joined the exciting procession of regal elephants dressed in silk drapes, dancing girls and fire jugglers at the Kataragama Temple, where she learns about some … Continue reading →
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Galle Face Hotel in Australian Frontlines after Facelift
Phil Hawkes, in The Australian, 19 April 2017, with the title “Galle Face Hotel gracious reminder of foregone era” It’s 1982 and I’m in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at a travel conference. We rock up at the portico of the legendary … Continue reading →
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Alan Strathern on The Vijaya Story as A Variant of the Romulus Tale … and Stranger Kings
Alan Strathern of Brasenose College, Oxford, with emphasis in colour being an imposition by The Editor Thuppahi ABSTRACT: The story of Vijaya, has long been central to the Sinhalese idea of themselves as a distinct ethnic group of Aryan origin … Continue reading →
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