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Whitewashing LTTE Genocide and Horrendous Partisanship in Canadian Protest Marches in May
Sudharshan Seneviratne, in Sunday Observer, 16 May 2021, where the title reads “Whitewashing LTTE genocide” A recent announcement featuring the news, Tamil Genocide Education Week by Scarborough MPP Vijay Thanigasalam’s Bill 104, received third reading at Queen’s Park on May … Continue reading →
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Facing Religious Zealots: Easter Sunday 21/4 Placed in a Global Conetxt
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, in .. where the ttile runs thus “Geopolitics Of The Easter Attacks: The Weaponization Of Religion Amid Hybrid War” “We have met the enemy and he is us” — Walt Kelly from Pogo Comics, quoted in “The ISIS … Continue reading →
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Nationalisms in Ceylon: Origins, Stimulants and Ingredients
Michael Roberts, … reproducing Chapter III in Volume I of Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and Nationalist Politics in Ceylon, 1929-1950, Vol I, 1977, Department of National Archives, 1977 , pp. lxviii–lxxviii ** While the political activists of the … Continue reading →
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From Empiricist Conflation to Distortion: Caste in South Asia
Michael Roberts, responding in 1985 to a Review Essay by Susan Bayly of Cambridge University on his book on Caste Conflcist and Elite Formation, CUP 1982 Susan Bayly** has done me the honour of reviewing the book on Caste Conflict … Continue reading →
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BBC Documentary Series on 21/4 Jihadist Terror in Sri Lanka
A Two-Part Series ONE = https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2020/14/terror-in-paradise … Confirmed for BBC Two on 6 April at 9pm to 10pm TWO = https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h3hh
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Fidel Castro’s Visit to Harlem New York: The Political Ramfications Deciphered
Thomas Meaney, in London Review of Books, Vol. 43 No. 3 · 4 February 2021: reviewing book by Simon Hall entitled Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s, September 2020, Faber, 276 pp., £17.99, 978 0 571 35306 4 It would … Continue reading →
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Karuna’s Defection: An Early Analysis in Speculative Mode
Gerald H. Peiris: being Chapter 6 in Peiris, Twilight of the Tigers The contents of this chapter, except its ‘Introductory Notes’ and the ‘Postscript’, are based almost entirely on an article titled ‘An Assessment of the Current Crisis among the Liberation Tigers … Continue reading →
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Experiencing Denigration in Sri Lanka: The Muslims Yesterday and Today
Shamara Wettimuny, in History Workshop, 7 September 2020, where the title runs “The Colonial History of Islamophobic Slurs in Sri Lanka”** Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic, multi-faith island. Yet despite centuries of physical coexistence, ethnic, religious and linguistic differences continue … Continue reading →
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Dissecting Robert Kaplan’s Jaundiced Reportage: “Orientalism” Savaging Lanka
Michael Roberts Robert Kaplan is a well-connected Jewish American author and journalist. As one he travels widely and chose to visit Sri Lanka as a newshound in mid-2009 just after the Sri Lankan government forces had vanquished the Tamil Tiger … Continue reading →
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An Essential Coupling: For A Bilingual National Anthem on 4th February
It appears that there are pressures in motion[1] to return to the old Rajapaksa programme of rendering the National Anthem on Independence Day in Sinhala Only. As Eranda Ginige has contended, this would be a retrograde step. Towards our comprehension … Continue reading →
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