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Kemper in London on Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World
Listen to PODCAST by Steven E. Kemper introducing his book Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World (U of Chicago Press, 2015) from New Books in Buddhist Studies … in London ….. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/new-books-in-buddhist-studies/id458210899?mt=2&i=1000345817559
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A Naked Display of Double Standards by the West in Sri Lanka
Tamara Kunanayakam, in Island, 3 November 2018, where the title is Tamara: Why was West silent on wrongdoings of former regime” ………..Note: the highlighting is the work of The Editor, Thuppahi Tamara Kunanayakam, Economist, Expert on international affairs, Former Ambassador/Permanent … Continue reading →
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Tamara Kunanayakam slams Western Intervention in Lanka’s Political Order…. and evokes Egyptian Comparisons
Tamara Kunanayakam: her Eliya Briefing: entitled “On the current political crisis in Sri Lanka” Colombo, 30 October 2018 I will express myself on the international aspects of the political crisis in which the country finds itself today and their far-reaching … Continue reading →
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Gerald Peiris’s Review in 2014 of the Literature on the Death Counts during the Final Stage of Eelam War IV
Gerald H Peiris, presenting a review article in February 2014, which is pertinent to claims TODAY. The original title runs as “Encountering ‘Death Counts’ in the Final Phase of the Eelam War” …. and appeared in both http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=97232 …. … Continue reading →
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A Bibliography from TAMIL PERSON and STATE
Michael Roberts TAMIL PERSON and STATE. PICTORIAL appeared in 2014 in Colombo under the imprint of Vijitha Yapa Publications. …. ISBN 978-955-665-231-4. The biliography probably covers most of the articles in the companion piece, TAMIL PERSON and STATE. ESSAYS; but … Continue reading →
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USA’s Recent Blackmailing Efforts against Breastfeeding Resolution at WHO Assembly in Geneva
Andrew Jacobs in New York Times, 8 July 2018, where the title reads “Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution by U.S. Stuns World Health Officials” A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of … Continue reading →
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Anagārika Dharmapala’s Anti-Colonial Mission
Kamal Wickremasinghe, in Island, 19 September 2018, with this title “Anagarika Dharmapala needs no rescuing” … reproduced here with highlights by The Editor, Thuppahi Social scientific study, for better or for worse, is the only available method of gaining insights … Continue reading →
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Breaching the Presidential Portals of a Venerable Learned Society: Hema Goonatilake in the RAS
Darshanie Ratnawalli, in Daily Mirror, August 2018, with the title “Royal Asiatic Society (SL) needs women and diversity” … with highlighting being the work of The Editor, Thuppahi If having a female at the helm is a sign of modernity … Continue reading →
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Nationalist Studies and the Ceylon Studies Seminar at Peradeniya, 1968-1970s
Michael Roberts The years 1966 to 1975 were heady days in Ceylon. Especially so for some of us in Peradeniya Univeristy where the CEYLON STUDIES SEMINAR was launched in November 1968 by a few members of the Arts Faculty assisted … Continue reading →
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Diego Garcia and the Fate of Its Its Indigenized Chagossian People
ONE = A Summary Report Diego Garcia is part of the Chagos Atoll, a “group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean” (Jayaweera 2018). Though discovered in 1512 by the Portuguese explorer … Continue reading →
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