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Amiable Academic Reciprocities: Peebles & Roberts, 1970
Michael Roberts The academic world and its scholarship is marked by cooperative work as well as animosities and rivalry – whether personal or based on political affiliations. The Sri Lankan scenario was/is no different. As I participated in this environment … Continue reading →
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Straddling Disciplines & Crossing Boundaries
Michael Roberts In presenting an article published in Comparative Studies in Society & History in Thuppahi,[1] I have introduced quite a few readers to the issue of the boundaries that have prevailed between the disciplines of History on the one … Continue reading →
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Sinhalese & Tamils Locked in Prejudice?
Michael Roberts An interesting chat with Mark LaBrooy in Melbourne on the phoe today induced me to re-visit my old SIGNATURE PIECE on “The Sinhala Mindset” in my Thuppahi site ….. Some of the commentary is as enlightening today as … Continue reading →
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The 1956 Generations: After and Before
Michael Roberts, reproducing the GC Mendis Memorial Lecture in 1981** in his collection of essays within Exploring Confrontation as chapter 12, pp 297-314. ABSTRACT of the Article: The electoral victory of the Mahajana Eksat Peramuna (MEP) led by the SLFP … Continue reading →
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Reflections: My Engagement with the Pogrom of July 1983 in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts The attacks on Tamils living and/or working in the southern and central parts of island Sri Lanka by elements of the Sinhala population were indefensible, horrible and disastrous for the country. It is not adequate to depict them … Continue reading →
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Confrontation. Covid-Quarantine. Ordeal.
Michael Roberts Preamble: I flew to Sydney in Australia on Sri Lankan Airlines UL 606 leaving Katunayake at 17.00 o’clock on Wednesday 16th September. The airport was depressingly empty. Only about 35 passengers were on the flight –undoubtedly due to … Continue reading →
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Black Friday in Colombo: 29 July 1983
Sugath Kulatunga, …. original submission with highlighting added by the Editor, Thuppahi That** was the story of Monday. The Friday that followed was a stark tragedy and a national calamity which has left its bloody stain in the records of … Continue reading →
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Rulership: Modalities of Superiority and Domination in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts When viewing the Tamil or Sinhala-majority arenas in pre-colonial times in Sri Lanka one can perceive manifest symbols of lordship and hierarchy existing amidst layers of caste and class differentiation. The penetration of Portuguese and Dutch colonial powers … Continue reading →
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Nuclear Disarmament! Farcical Face at G7 Summit
Kanwal Singh, in RT News, 6 June 2023, where the title runs: “The G7’s nuсlear-weapon-free world ‘vision’ is a farce” …. with the highlights in black being those within the digital version The choice of Hiroshima as the venue of … Continue reading →
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Meirsheimer’s Forecast in 2009 — Seeking to ”Save Israel From Itself”
John Meirsheimer, in The American Conservative, 18 May 2009….. article entitled “Saving Israel From Itself” …. with highlighting emphasis imposed by Tthe editor, Thuppahi The two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the Jewish state’s long-term security—and our own. … Continue reading →
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