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April 23, 2026 · 7:31 pm

A Review of the Book ‘Forces and Strands in Sri Lanka’s Cricket History’

Binoda K. Mishra, … reviewing the booklet 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 ++ Cricket brought to Sri Lanka the … Continue reading →

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November 17, 2025 · 6:59 pm

The Battle For An Archaic Fort in Jaffna in 1990 During the LTTE Insurgency

Gamini Goonetilleke, in JAFFNAMONITOR …. https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/inside-the-siege-a-sinhala-doctors-account-of-jaffna-fort-1990/ The first mortar shell screamed just after dawn on 10 June 1990. It tore through the coral-stone ramparts of Jaffna Fort, the blast rattling every window in the city. Inside the pentagonal walls, 130 … Continue reading →

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May 8, 2024 · 3:18 am

SSC: The Studies in Society & Culture Project, 1992 et seq

SSC PAMPHLET PROJECT Some of you may remember this project in Sri Lanka in the 1990s directed towards making selected academic articles on the history & politics of Sri Lanka available to the English-reading public at affordable rates. My unreliable … Continue reading →

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January 6, 2024 · 9:32 pm

Reviewing Chatterjee’s Book on Anti-Muslim Riots in Gujarat in 2002

Nishkula Suntharalingam, presenting a book review in Asian Affairs 2023  …..  https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raaf20 …. of the book by Moyukh Chatterjee. Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities. Duke University Press, Durham, 2023. pp. 166. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Ackmts. … Continue reading →

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August 7, 2026 · 12:33 pm

Deciphering the KAVADI Phenomenon within Sri Lanka ….

VERITE RESEARCH in  Colombo, Item entitled “Power on Parade: Government Keeps Kavadi on the  Road” Over the past week, Sinhala media focused on reported security concerns surrounding the kavadi segment of the 769th annual Esala Maha Perahera (procession) of the Uthpalawanna Sri Vishnu Maha Devalaya … Continue reading →

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May 13, 2026 · 11:51 am

Stripping Rohan Gunaratna Like an Onion: Propaganda, Bias and the Singapore Nexus

Truth is King, …. addressing “https://thuppahis.com/2026/05/11/gunaratnas-conservative-pro-american-reading-of-todays-polical-confrontations/” Rohan Gunaratna’s recent security analysis presented in Thuppahi represents a deeply biased, methodologically flawed interpretation of contemporary global conflict. In pulling back the layers of a self-proclaimed independent academic, we can see his deep … Continue reading →

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November 13, 2023 · 1:29 am

Sinhala Monarchical Imagery in Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Past Political Pitch

Michael Roberts .… reproducing an article presented earlier in the COLOMBO TELEGRAPH in the year 2012…. an article bearing a different title: viz. “Populism And Sinhala-Kingship in the Rajapaksa Regime’s Political Pitch” … an article that also appeared under a … Continue reading →

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April 24, 2024 · 1:21 am

The Magpies Cricket Club in British Ceylon: An Exclusive & Peculiar Enclave

Michael Roberts MAGPIES_FLG_CRICKET_1923 I came across this unusual photograph in loose-leaf form amidst my files and lata pata in my study.  David Sansoni in Sydney has rendered it more presentable, while Mevan Pieris has provided me with critical information on … Continue reading →

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September 8, 2024 · 10:34 pm

Face-to-Face in Admonishment: Drama at the Adelaide Oval, 23rd January 1998

Michael Roberts Ashan de Alwis’s article in The Ceylon Journal Volume 1/1 published in mid-2024 is as readable and excellent an essay as anyone can wish for.[i] It focuses on the 50-over one-day cricket match between Australia and Sri Lanka played … Continue reading →

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May 16, 2025 · 2:35 pm

Incisive Reflections on Sri Lanka’s Political History, 1930s et seq

Chandre Dharmawardena’s Comments in a Thuppahi Post, 9 January 2025 … comments mistakenly attributed to a “Thoughtfully Pink”** Sowell’s analysis is the typical simplistic analysis that puts all the blame on SWRD’s 1956 government. Sowell’s analysis encapsulates the simplistic approach … Continue reading →

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