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Mervyn Pereira’s Account of the Kennington Oval Encounter
Mervyn Pereira, in Daily News, 14 June 1975, with this title “Sri Lanka’s gallant performance at the Kensington Oval on Wednesday is the talking point in the press.” Duleep Mendis felled by Thomson, 14 June 1975 Sri Lanka’s gallant performance … Continue reading →
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The Agony and Ecstasy of A Pogrom: Southern Lanka, July 1983
Michael Roberts … reproducing an article that appeared initially in a collection of my essays in 1994 under the title above in EXPLORING CONFRONTATION, Readng, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994, pp. 317-27. It was subsequently reproduced in Nethra, vol. 6, 199-213. … Continue reading →
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Serbia, Rio Tinto, Novak Djokovic and Australia’s Rancid Hypocrisy
Fair Dinkum Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić has announced her country is expelling Rio Tinto as it pulls out of the Jadar lithium project, costing Australia $3.6 billion. Brnabić told reporters: “All decisions (linked to the lithium project) and all … Continue reading →
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Big Power Manoeuvres in and around Sri Lanka: The Bandarage Essay
Mr C .… an orignal piece for Thuppahi** … with highlighting being the work of The Editor, Thuppahi I found Asoka Bandarage’s essay was okay, but it suffers from a few argumentative flaws I will discuss in this article. The writer … Continue reading →
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Beating COVID …. Sequential Multi-Drug Treatment
A Medical Friend in Lanka: “In response to Dr Justin Labrooy’s email about Ivermectin usage: I totally agree that people should not self-medicate. It can be very dangerous.” Dr Peter McCullough MD, testified to the Texas Senate HHS Committee. … Continue reading →
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A refreshingly different Sri Lankan poetic voice
Indranee Kandiah & Thiru Kandiah, whose review article** analyses A Tapestry of Verse, by Premini Amerasinghe {Nugegoda: Sarasavi Publishers. 2019. pp. 103] Premini Amerasinghe’s A Tapestry of Verse, which was released last year, is a collection largely of her recent poems, … Continue reading →
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Understanding China’s Foreign Manoeuvres: Western Misconceptions
Mr C[1] I found the essay by Asoka Bandarage[2] as okay, but it suffers from a few argumentative flaws I will discuss in this article. The writer Bandarage has made many claims. Some of these I agree with. Her main … Continue reading →
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Protected Government Killers: The Trincomalee Shootings of 2 January 2006
Rajan Hoole and Kopalasingam Sritharan, in Colombo Telegraph, 27 July 2022, …. where the title runs thus “Impunity in times of uncertainty – Part IV: Kapila Jayasekera: Killer-in-chief in both ACF and Five Students Cases” As we have previously pointed out, one … Continue reading →
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The Sinhalese and Others over the Centuries … A Reprint From 2003
Michael Roberts presenting an article printed in 2003: “Language and national identity: The Sinhalese and others over the centuries,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Summer 2003, 9: 75-102. The collective identity of Sinhala-speakers over four centuries dating from the 1590s is … Continue reading →
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Not all Issues are Black or White: Some Voices from the Offspring of Cross-Cultural Marriages
Audrey Maxwell [nee Roberts] … a chapter in Rosemary Breger and Rosana Hill (eds). Cross-Cultural Marriage. Identity and Choice, Oxford, Berg, 1998, …. ISBN 1 85973 968 7 paper … with this reproduction being rendered possible by our nephew-in-law Tissa … Continue reading →
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