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The Molotov Cocktail generating Communal Violence in Sri Lanka and India: A Select Bibliography
Michael Roberts One image of the scene outside the hospital where Indira Gandhi lay dying in 1984 after she was assassinated by some of her Sikh bodyguards as retribution for the Indian government’s raid on a Sikh temple in the … Continue reading →
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Evaluation: Forces and Strands in Sri Lanka’s Cricket History
Binod K. Mishra, reviewing “Forces and Strands in Sri Lanka’s Cricket History” by Michael Roberts, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association, 2006, 64 pp., 21 photographs, bibliography, Rs. 300 (paperback), ISBN 9559102826 …. location of original review and date of publication is … Continue reading →
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A Guardian Hitler: Gotabhaya! Really!
Sasanka Perera. in Island, 25 June 2018, where the title is “Pining for Hitler” Ven. Endaruwe Upali, Deputy Chief Priest of the Asgiriya Chapter in the Buddhist ecclesiastical order, is in the news. But it is not for his knowledge … Continue reading →
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Lakshman Gunasekara’s Reflections on the Political Turmoil in Late 2018: Three Essays
Lakshman Gunasekera ONE. Lakshman Gunasekara: “Politics vs Constitutionalism,” in Horizons, 9 December 2018 … When the Bandaranaike International Memorial Conference Hall (BMICH, what a mouthful) began hosting conferences in those old-fashioned 1970s, we, the ordinary citizens hadn’t a hope of … Continue reading →
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Jayasekera’s Study of British Colonialism in Ceylon reviewed
Chandra R De Silva, in Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences 41(1) 2018, pp 65-68, with highlighting emphasis being the Work of The Editor, Thuppahi reviewing Confrontations with Colonialism: Resistance, Revivalism and Reform under British Rule in Sri Lanka 1796- … Continue reading →
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Tales of an Infertility Pill are effectively dismissed by Sri Lankan Medical Specialists
If EVER there was a tale of gullibility and chicanery combining to spread violent killing and havoc among the populace, it is the manner in which some elements in the Sinhalese population accepted the validity of rumours that Muslim traders … Continue reading →
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The Christchurch Killer’s Dungeon of a Mind
ONE = Greg Sheridan: “A Manifesto for a Dark Age,” in The Australian, 23 March 2019 The manifesto of Brenton Tarrant, the alleged Christchurch gunman, displays an extreme contemporary embodiment of six historical trends. It is the mirror in morality, … Continue reading →
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Gridlock and Hocus-Pocus in Sri Lanka underwritten by Prejudice, Exclusion plus False News
Michael Roberts This is an expanded version of anarticle sent earlier toColombo Telegraph and this expanded version will be sent to the print media in Sri Lanka as well as Col/Tel. It is test case: are the political lines associated … Continue reading →
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The Suntharalingam Family’s Journey: Sri Lanka to Australia
Matthew Westwood, in The Weekend Australian Review, 5-6 January 2019, where the title is “Counting and Cracking: a family’s journey” … with some snaps and a partial bibliography added by The Editor, Thuppahi In the complicated and at times bitterly … Continue reading →
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The Rajapaksa Family’s Symbolic Modalities
Michel Nugawela, in Daily Mirror, 9 January 2019, where the title is “Symbolic power of Rajapaksa brand” … 5 =Pope and King’ ideal-leader type worships Sri Lankan ground 7= Father’s masculine virility and generative capacity In 1996, a punishing drought … Continue reading →
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