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Economic Warriors welcomed by Bio-Warriors …. Today
Priya Cooray Notwithstanding the fact that it could have been done much earlier, it is still commendable on the part of the Government of Sri Lanka to recently approve a limited number (50) of overseas workers to return in every … Continue reading →
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Charting Anagarika Dharmapala’s Many Pursuits
Nandasiri Jasentuliyana, reviewing Bhadrajee S. Hewage’s book “A NAME FOR EVERY CHAPTER: Anagarika Dharmapala and Ceylonese Buddhist Revivalism” ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ – Socrates. Rarely has so much been written both in the West and in the … Continue reading →
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Tilly’s Beach Hotel at Mount: Burnt-Out in July 1983
Ajay Kamalakaran, from Bombay on 26 February 2016, in http://ajayinbombay.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-gutted-building-near-mount-lavinia.html …. with this title “The gutted building near the Mount Lavinia beach” …. see Note by Michael Roberts at the end A gutted building that is near the beach on … Continue reading →
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Reviewing Horowitz’s Analysis of the Aborted Coup D’etat of January 1962
Michael Roberts, presenting his review article on the study of the abortive 1962 coup plot by elements in the Sri Lanka officer corps by Donald Horowitz: namely, Coup Theories and Officers’ Motives. Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective, Princeton: Princeton University … Continue reading →
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Reconfiguring Our Categories of Being for the Sake of Lanka’s Future
Michael Roberts, here repeating a set of perspectives voiced initially on 19 June 2009 after the LTTE had been vanquished,in the News Magazine FRONTLINE that was printed every fortnight from Chennai.++ “One can win the War, but lose the Peace.” … Continue reading →
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Diluted Sinhalaness in the Crucible of Violence
Anoma Pieris** with an introductory note in response to my invitation that is pertinent & runs thus “Hello Uncle Michael, Nice to hear from you. Afraid you reach me at a time when I am overwhelmed with work, in fact … Continue reading →
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Modernist Fundamentalism: Missing the Force of Walk, Talk and Majesty in Sinhaladom
Michael Roberts Asanga Welikala edited an important book entitled The Republic at Forty in 2012 in which I participated (CPA, 2012). Both Welikala and Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne have formidable curriculum-vitae behind them. Their recent intervention in criticism of the Rajapaksa … Continue reading →
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Ground Zero in Australian Politics towards China
Fair Dinkum The Australia-China relationship has fallen to zero – the worst it has been since the relationship was established in 1972. The trigger for this recent deterioration was the Australian Prime Minister’s calling for the World Health Organization to … Continue reading →
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Penny Wong and Medcalf: Critical Comments on Australia’s Asia Policy
Andrew Tillett, in Financial Review, 3 March 2020, where the title runs “ Climate, coronavirus raises risk of ‘armed mistrust’ between China, US” The risk of “armed mistrust” between China and the US is rising, with climate change and coronavirus … Continue reading →
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Zoom-Boom: US Cyber Warfare vs China via Allegations re Zoom
VISIT this You Tube video on ZOOM entitled “Is China Spying? on Us?. Shocking Details in This Video.” …. c602c1a3-8f92-4b61-b4ea-f63b8c01315a Because the speaker’s voice is that of an (Asian) Indian albeit one with traces of an American background, my suspicions … Continue reading →
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