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Ganeshananthan’s & Karunatitilaka’s Novels Reviewed by Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan: “Even As A Ghost” in The New York Review of Books, 18 January 2024 … reaching me via a tennis-mate Ralph Schlomowitz who is a ‘religious’ adherent of the NYRB and matters highbrow;while Amaasiiri De Silva in New … Continue reading →
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Facing A Tsunami & A Civil War
Dennis M. McGilvray, in an article pubd in 2006 in the India Review, vol. 5, nos. 3–4, July/October, 2006, pp. 372–393 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC …. ISSN 1473-6489 print; 1557-3036 online DOI:10.1080/14736480600939132 … one bearing this title: … Continue reading →
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Defeating the LTTE: The Worldwide Significance of This Achievement
Serge De Silva-Ranasinghe, in Asia-Pacific Defence News, Vol.5/5, May 15-June14, 2010, where the title is “Defeat Of The LTTE And Its Significance” …. with the difficult & painstaking task of conversion being handled by Darshanie Ratnawalli in Sri Lanka … … Continue reading →
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Danger! US Aggression towards China & Russia … Motives Criticised by Richard Wolff
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The Japanese Air Raids on Ceylon in April 1942
Nalaka Gunawardene, on 2nd April 2012 ….. https://nalakagunawardene.com/2012/04/02/battle-of-ceylon-70-years-on-still-waiting-for-its-place-in-the-movies/ While human memories fade and disappear, photographs and films help preserve moments of history – either as factual documentation, or as fictionalised stories. The Battle of Ceylon, or the Easter Sunday Japanese … Continue reading →
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Andrew’s Review: Before the Galle Tests Commence
Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPNcricinfo, Tuesday/Wednesday On paper it’s been six years since the Australia men’s side were last in Sri Lanka for a Test tour, but somehow that 2016 tour seems a lifetime ago. Graham Ford was Sri Lanka’s coach … Continue reading →
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Full Frontal: Confronting Diaspora Tamil Canards in Canada
Legal fund for fighting against Bill 104 TGEWA https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-for-fighting-against-bill-104Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition is organizing this fundraiser. Campaign to repeal Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA), for the sake of all Sri Lankans Dear Friends, The Ontario provincial government of … Continue reading →
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For Muralidhar Reddy: Thoughts on Eelam War IV in late 2009
ONE: Preamble by Michael Roberts I was in Colombo from mid-April 2009 to early June and observed the local coverage of Eelam War IV at its bitter end. I was invited by Muralidhar Reddy[i] to write articles for Frontline on aspects of the … Continue reading →
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An Agricultural Calamity on Sri Lanka’s Horizon
Chandre Dharmawardena, in The Island, 27 Sa eptember 2021, with this title “Red Alert: Need to quarantine imported organic fertiliser” When the government suddenly banned the import of fertilisers and pesticides in April 2021 and went ‘100 percent organic’, many … Continue reading →
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Anthropology in Depth … Far & Wide: Q & A with Bruce Kapferer
BRUCE KAPFERER Interviewed by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, …. date not up front Photo by Andy Lewis. Moving at the margins to re-center anthropology. From having been supervised by Bruce Kapferer and having worked on and off with him since 1999, I … Continue reading →
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