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An Appraisal of Sri Lanka’s Industrialization Strategy
Prema-chandra Athukorala The history of industrialization strategy in Sri Lanka is characterized by abrupt episodes of substantial changes associated with political regime shifts without settling to a stable path required for self-sustained growth. During the first decade after independence in … Continue reading →
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Jacob Haafner’s Imperial Dutch Vignettes on the Portuguese Burghers in Dutch Ceilao
Palmyrah, in NOTES from CEYLON at http://notesfromceylon.blogspot.com/2020/10/burghers-with-their-belts-unbuckled.html In 1926, a translation of Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon (Travels on Foot through the Island of Ceylon) by Jacob Haafner was published in the Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union. The translators, L.A. Prins and J.R. Toussaint, … Continue reading →
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Ethnicity in Riposte during a Verbal Stoush
Michael Roberts, reproducing an article published in Comparative Studies in Society & History with this title “Ethnicity in Riposte at a Cricket Match: The Past for the Present”…. the highlighting is an intervention undertaken today in the present Some recent … Continue reading →
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Protected Government Killers: The Trincomalee Shootings of 2 January 2006
Rajan Hoole and Kopalasingam Sritharan, in Colombo Telegraph, 27 July 2022, …. where the title runs thus “Impunity in times of uncertainty – Part IV: Kapila Jayasekera: Killer-in-chief in both ACF and Five Students Cases” As we have previously pointed out, one … Continue reading →
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Investment in Sri Lanka Today: Questionable Steps and Looming Influences
Dr. Sarala Fernando, in The Island, 10 January 2021, with this title “Selling the Family Silver” and India-Sri Lanka bilateral relations A remark attributed to the US Congress that “Sri Lanka is a valuable piece of real estate” had made … Continue reading →
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Industrialization in Lanka!! Searing Comments on Athukorale’s Article
ONE: A NOTE from Mevan Pieris in Colombo, 1 July 2021[i] The underlining in bold Black is HSM Pieris’s work; that in red has been imposed by the Editor, Thuppahi….. and so, too, any red underlining in Vinod Moonesinghe’s intervention. … Continue reading →
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SK Wickremesinghe laid to rest
ONE = DailyFT 12 June 2020. …. http://www.ft.lk/news/S-K-Wickremesinghe-no-more/56-701586 S.K. Wickremesinghe, a well-known and much respected figure both in Sri Lankan business and diplomatic circles and eldest son of Martin Wickremesinghe, has passed away on Thursday at the age of 94.
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Dissecting American Policy towards Sri Lanka
Chandre Dharmawardana The Chapa Interview with US-military Professor Dr. Mendis: US policy in Sri Lanka Please listen to an interview of Dr. Mendis ((https://youtu.be/Lh4D4qGE854) which touches on US policy and Sri Lanka, and [dwell critically on the unsaid] between the … Continue reading →
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UK sets up a “China Research Group”
Tom Tugendhat and Neil O’Brien: “About the China Research Group” The China Research Group [has been] set up by a group of Conservative MPs in the UK to promote debate and fresh thinking about how Britain should respond to the … Continue reading →
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Lançarote de Seixas and Madampe: A Portuguese Casado[i] in a Sinhalese Village
Chandra R. De Silva, refereed article originally pubd in Modern Ceylon Studies, Vol II/1, 1970, pp. 18-34. At the end of the sixteenth century[ii] when the Portuguese came into possession of the south-western sea-board, Madampe proper, was a sizeable village … Continue reading →
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