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Shane Warne as Worldly fat Bastard
David Runciman reviewing NO SPIN by Shane Warne in the London Review of Books … and deploying the title Fat Bastard
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The Skirmish at Sainthamaruthu and the Suicidal Deaths of Some Wahhabi Jihadists -Jeyaraj as Investigative Journalist
DBS Jeyaraj, in Daily Mirror, 2 May 2019, where the title is “Battle of Sainthamaruthu Zahran’s family members dead in Sainthamaruthu skirmish between security forces and Islamic State terrorists” Sri Lanka’s security forces have engaged in many battles and armed … Continue reading →
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The Muslim Moors in Sri Lanka: Commensality in the Moulding of Distinctive Being
Michael Roberts The article by Wilfrid Jayasuriya on “The Force of the Moors” in Sri Lanka generated an ethnographic note which led to clarifications from Mohamed Mowzil and Ameer Ali.[1] They provided details about the practices followed by the Moor … Continue reading →
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Gifts to Lanka: China pats itself on the Head
Cheng Xueyuan, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Sri Lanka, in Sri Lanka Güardian, July 2019, where the title is “Chinese military is actively providing more and more international public safety products August 1st 1927 was the founding … Continue reading →
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Digana: Tales and Reflections One Year after Disastrous Riots
Rajitha Jagoda Arachchi, in Sunday Observer, 3 March 2019, where the title runs “Digana: Ground Zero one year on“ A year ago, the peaceful village was an unrecognisable hotbed of hate and violence and this street on which Samsudeen’s home … Continue reading →
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Addressing Post-war Dilemmas in Sri Lanka
Laksiri Fernando, review article in Sri Lanka Guardian, 30 March 2019, entitled “The power ambitions and competitions of the elite are highly asymmetric” Political science and political scientists, among others, could play a major role in resolving Sri Lanka’s most … Continue reading →
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An Incisive Note in Demolition of the R2P Programme of the Western Mighty
Gerald H. Peiris … A Memo prresented this December 2019 on the basis of articles on R2P presented initially in 2007. There is no difficulty about accessing the considerable volume of writings available on the R2P ‘Principle’/’Norm’.
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Stephen Long’s “Revenge Politics”: Endorsements
Michael Roberts Stephen Long is clearly an adventurous American who has travelled widely and ventured into the paths of Buddhist meditation as a central facet within this journey – so much so that he adopted a brahmacharya philosophy of life … Continue reading →
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Lakshman Kadirgamar’s Legacy
H.M.G.S. Palihakkara, in Sunday Times, 11 August 2019, where the title is “Lakshman Kadirgamar: The Legacy of an Icon” Fourteen years ago this month, a suspected LTTE assassin snuffed out the life of Sri Lanka’s best known and widely admired … Continue reading →
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Internet Assassins: Deciphering Their World
Michael Roberts On different occasions friends have indicated that I should not bother to address personalized and vituperative attacks. In this instance I am disregarding this well-meant advice. For one the instances I am addressing are those arising from an … Continue reading →
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