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July 16, 2026 · 1:41 am

Learning From Misreadings of the Past in the Recent Past

Michael Roberts  Happenchance helps does it Not? A chance remark on web led me to one of my books entitled FIRE AND Storm. Essays in Sri Lankan Politics …. which was published by Vijitha Yapa Publications in December 2010. This … Continue reading →

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May 9, 2026 · 1:40 pm

In Memory of Professor Sudarshan Seneviratne

Dr Thiruni Kelegama in Daily FT, 18 January 2025, in an essay entitled “Remembering Professor Sudarshan Seneviratne (1949-2024)”  …with a sub-title “Heritage, diplomacy, and the personal as political”   ….  I first met Sudarshan Seneviratne – or Uncle Sudarshan as … Continue reading →

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February 18, 2024 · 7:19 pm

Appreciation: Professor Yasmine Gooneratne

Devika Brendon, in The Sunday Times, 18 February 2024 ‘And gladly would she learn, and gladly teach’  My mother, Yasmine Gooneratne, passed away on Thursday night this week. She was 88 years old.

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July 27, 2025 · 5:18 pm

St. Anthony’s College in Kandy: Its Heritage

Bernard VanCuylenburg  and  Sisira Weragoda  … whose title reads “From Little Things Big Things Grow – Antonians Who Excelled Beyond Excellence”  Prologue As an introduction to the subject of this article I had to choose a title which nails it all … Continue reading →

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June 6, 2024 · 8:27 pm

Don Bradman Memorabilia in Adelaide Sri Lankan Realms

Michael Roberts in Adelaide, June 2024 Sir Donald Bradman chose to reside in Adelaide following his retirement…rather than in his hometown of Bowral in New South Wales. This had incidental benefits for Sri Lankan cricket lovers in Adelaide; and even … Continue reading →

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September 15, 2026 · 5:03 pm

Facing Polarized Extremism in Sri Lanka in 1973 in Simpleton Mode

Professor Chandre Dharmawardena, writing now from Canada, Early September 2026, in an essay entitled  “How the 1973 Ceylon-Studies meeting held in Colombo totally missed the bus” … with the highlighting below in BLUE being the work of Michael Roberts [who … Continue reading →

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June 5, 2026 · 5:40 pm

“Noble Death” ….. Empowering the Body

Arthur Saniotis & Michael Roberts:  “Empowering the Body and ‘Noble Death’,” .… a reprint of an article pubd in Social Analysis, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2005, 7–24 © Berghahn Journals Facing death with equanimity and with a honed, trained … Continue reading →

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November 18, 2023 · 11:54 pm

“Our Present and Our Future” –Erudite Reflections on Ceylon’s Situation in 1850

A.C.[1] “But where the stirring crowd, the voice of strife, The glow of action, and the thrill of life?” It may not perhaps be altogether useless to ask, How many of our countrymen have reflected seriously upon their condition and … Continue reading →

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November 11, 2024 · 11:15 pm

Michael Caine … His Life and Times, 1933 et seq

Maurice Joseph Micklewhite …….. born 1933 … became Michael Caine, actor; NOW Sir Michael Caine….. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Caine  A – Listen this You-Tube Review = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQU-7GW-TlY  

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April 2, 2026 · 8:15 pm

The History of Ceylon Tea and Cricket in Sri Lanka

David Colin-Thome in 2003 …. being an item in  THE HISTORY OF CEYLON NEWSLETTER, August 2021, …. now selected for TPS on invitation by David Schokman of Perth “You will think I write a lot about the scenery, but if … Continue reading →

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