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House of Lords Debating Sri Lanka & Its Truth Commission Today
HOUSE OF LORDS: Sri Lanka Truth & Reconciliation Commission A topical question on Sri Lanka was raised by Conservative peer Lord Daniel Moylan in the House of Lords on Thursday, December 1st which was followed by additional supplementary questions that … Continue reading →
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Deciphering the Past to Secure Reform in the Present
Michael Roberts Let me suggest that in any country one cannot address the fundamental problems of the present without understanding its immediate past. This prescription was/is inherent in an article that I penned for the Indian journal FRONTLINE in June … Continue reading →
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Reviewing Horowitz’s Analysis of the Aborted Coup D’etat of January 1962
Michael Roberts, presenting his review article on the study of the abortive 1962 coup plot by elements in the Sri Lanka officer corps by Donald Horowitz: namely, Coup Theories and Officers’ Motives. Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective, Princeton: Princeton University … Continue reading →
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Queen Elizabeth in Ceylon in 1954 in Pictures
The Queen and Prince Philip visited the island of Ceylon in 1954 and participated in striking ceremonies in Colombo, Kandy and Peradeniya University. The Senate Building at Peradeniya University was formally ‘consecrated’; and the Queen also visited the Peradeniya Botanical … Continue reading →
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Working on the Book PEOPLE INBETWEEN
Michael Roberts The ‘discovery’ of the Lorenz Cabinet in the Royal Asiatic Society in the 1980s led me to combine with Percy Colin-Thome[1] and Ismeth Raheem in working up this material into a four-volume book.[2] The first book in this … Continue reading →
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Working on the Book PEOPLE INBETWEEN
Michael Roberts The ‘discovery’ of the Lorenz Cabinet in the Royal Asiatic Society in the 1980s led me to combine with Percy Colin-Thome[1] and Ismeth Raheem in working up this material into a plan envisaging a set of books (four … Continue reading →
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A Muslim Militia in the East of Sri Lanka Sponsored by the State
Rajan Hoole, being Chapter 3 of his book “Sri Lanka”s Easter Tragedy: When the Deep State Gets Out of Its Depth” A State-sponsored Muslim Militia in the East Mohamed Zahran Cassim, whose fate made headlines in Wahabi terror, was born … Continue reading →
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“Noble Death” ….. Empowering the Body
Arthur Saniotis & Michael Roberts: “Empowering the Body and ‘Noble Death’,” .… a reprint of an article pubd in Social Analysis, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2005, 7–24 © Berghahn Journals Facing death with equanimity and with a honed, trained … Continue reading →
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Conflicting Readings of Sri Lanka’s Pre-Capitalist Past
Presenting a Review Essay compiled by Michael Roberts in 2010 that was presented in the SRI LANKA GUARDIAN on the 15th August 2010 … with this title: “Ethnic Identity in Sri Lanka’s Pre-Capitalist Past: Shanie, Darshanie and Roberts” When Darshanie … Continue reading →
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A Review of Norah Roberts’ Book … GALLE AS QUIET AS ASLEEP
Bandu De Silva in LankaWeb 2012 reviewing GALLE AS QUIET AS ASLEEP by Norah Roberts https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2012/08/26/galle-eternal-charm-book-review-galle-as-quiet-as-sleep-by-norah-roberts/ Galle: Eternal charm = Book Review Galle as Quiet as Sleep By Norah Roberts, …. August 26th, 2012 The title Galle as … Continue reading →
