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Deciphering Patriotic Devotion: The Japanese in the 1940s & the Lankan Tamil People For the LTTE

Michael Roberts reproducing an article presented in a popular website during the final stages in Eelam War IV in 2008/09 within the context TODAY of a horrendous war-situation in Palestine and its environs — the website being GROUNDVIEWS: …………….. https://groundviews.org/2009/04/21/ltte-and-tamil-people-i-preamble/ … Continue reading →

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Enrico Fermi: His Mind-blowing Scientific Breakthrough

Hiran  de Silva in FACEBOOK ……….. https://www.facebook.com/ Every school must have a weekly hour called ” Great Minds”. In that period, students must be shown the biographies of the greatest minds the world has produced for inspiration. If language is … Continue reading →

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A “City of Dreams” in the Centre of Colombo

A = Item in Booking.com Set in Colombo, 700 metres from Galle Face Beach, Cinnamon Life at City of Dreams offers accommodation with a restaurant, free private parking and a bar. The property is around 2.5 km from Bambalapitiya Beach, … Continue reading →

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Ethereal Exchanges on a Flat Rooftop

Fazli Sameer in his website where the title runs thus “The Girl on the Rooftop” “Every day, around four, after a sweltering noon, I’d climb the narrow staircase to the rooftop of our building. It was a small square of cracked … 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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Rukrakaganno’s Ecological Reforestation Project in Singharaja Rainforest

Ruk Rakaganno — A Note about this NGO’s Enterprising Programme in Protecting a Vital Element in the Singharaja Rain Forest ……….. Hanne Lund Madsen, Sustainability Director, Forward Advice, Denmark Sri Lanka was recently awarded international recognition at the United Nations … Continue reading →

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A Garland For Ashley Halpe …. In 2008

Tissa Jayatilaka and Jayantha Dhanapala, …. their OCR Text of the INTRODUCTION in a FELICITATION OF Professor ASHLEY HALPE in November 2008  Introduction Ashley Halpé, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Ceylon (now Peradeniya), celebrated his 75th birthday … Continue reading →

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Sport and Pastime in British Ceylon

Michael Roberts, presenting an old unpubd article drafted in the 1990s ….with highlights being Today’s insertions It is feasible to suggest that leisure activity blossomed in Europe in the course of the nineteenth century. As European society was re-ordered by … Continue reading →

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Sri Lanka’s Political Economy Today: An Assessment from Bopage

Lionel Bopage in GROUNDVIEWS, 26 January 2026, where the title runs thus “The Promise of Change and the Reality: A Balance Sheet” Photo courtesy of Kumanan Beyond governance failures, the economic picture remained deeply troubling as 2025 drew to a close. … Continue reading →

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Sri Lankan Political Situation NOW: Bopage’s Reflections

THE ISLAND, 3 September 2026 The following are excerpts from a recent interview with Lionel Bopage, who was in the 1971 JVP leadership, conducted in Sinhala by Sirasa TV’s Ten Questions program hosted by Wasantha Masinghege.  Lionel Bopage, the first General … Continue reading →

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