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A Lament: Biased US Media Coverage of the Pro-Palestinian Protests at Columbia University
Mobashra Tazamal’s LAMENT from The Campus at Columbia University “I am left with the understanding that to be Muslim at Columbia is to face extreme censorship of your language to appease an audience that doesn’t represent nor respect you. To … Continue reading →
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Assorted Data on Walter T. Stace
A = A Note from Lucy McCann at the Bodleian Library in Oxford – Michael Roberts, some years back… At the Institute of Commonwealth Studies there is an autobiography of W.T. Stace as a civil servant in Ceylon, written in … 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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When Selectoral Machinations Shattered Ceylon’s Projected Tour of England in 1966
Chandra Schaffter, whose original essay in 2018 can be found in web-site CRICKETIQUE … That essay is entitled “How the Scheduled Tour of England in the 1960s was blown apart from Within” … NB: highlighting emphasis has been imposed by … Continue reading →
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Jehan Perera on Channel Four’s Slant on the Easter Sunday Attacks of 2019
Jehan Perera in The Island, 19 September 2019 The Channel 4 documentary that claims to give the story behind the Easter bombing has restarted the debate, within the country, about who was behind the foul deed, and why. The answer … 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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Serving Sri Lanka: Skandakumar on Mevan Pieris
Somachandra Skandakumar’s Address at the Launch of Mevan Pieris’s THE COMMUNITY,21 March 2023 … with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Chief Guest Professor G.L Pieris, Guest of Honour, the Reverend Warden Marc Billimoria, distinguished Guests, Ayubowan ,Vanakkam, Assalam Aleykum, … 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 →
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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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Dayan Jayatilleka in Blitzkrieg directed at Gothabaya’s Claims
Dayan Jayatilleka in Daily FT, 14 March 2024 where the title runs thus: “The Conspiracy: Gotabaya’s Mein Kampf could incite ethnic, religious conflict” …. also in Financial Times(?) “the targeting of Catholic and Christian churches and churchgoers on Easter Sunday … Continue reading →
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