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Waduge’s Summary Survey: USA’s Hands in Sri Lankan Politics, 1950s-2019
Shenali Waduge, in LankaWeb. 1 November 2019, where the title reads “US in Sri Lanka since 2015 – turning Sri Lanka into a Neo-Colonial Military Base” Ever since a regime change was choreographed in 2015 January, the US has been … Continue reading →
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Understanding Military Organisation via the Sinhala War Poems – the Hatana Kaavya
Cenan Pirani: “Widening the study of military organization in the early modern South Asian context: an examination of the Sinhala Hatana Kavya”, in South Asian History & Culture, Vol9/2, April 2018, pp. 207-24. ABSTRACT: This essay highlights the under-represented subject of … Continue reading →
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1948-2019: Intertwined Trajectories summed up …. Sri Lanka and Personnel
Michel Nugawela, in Daily Financial Times, 4 February 2019 In search of a story: Professor Simon Anholt, who coined the term ‘nation brand’, once asked, “If the hand of God should accidentally slip on the celestial keyboard tomorrow and … Continue reading →
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Where Terrorism carved out a Nation: Israel out of Palestine
Jayantha Somasundaram, in Island, April 2019, where the title is“Palestine: Where Britain lost the war against terror” What happened in British mandated Palestine in the run-up to Israeli statehood in May 1948 is a classic example of the triumph of … Continue reading →
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The Maithri-Mahinda Coup Stymied?
Asanga Welikala, Groundviews, 14 November 2018, with the title as follows: “The Coup de Grace on the Coup D’Etat?’ Since 26 October, virtually every gambit and calculation of the instigators of the Sri Lankan constitutional coup have failed. Initially, they … Continue reading →
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Hatreds. Chasms. Bill Deutrom’s Insights on the Political Impasse in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, 15 December 2018, where the title is different pro-UNP rally Email Note from Bill Deutrom in Lanka to Michael Roberts, 8 Dec 2018 Thank you, Michael for your amazing collection of articles on … Continue reading →
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The Situation of the Tamils in the Present Saga — Guruparan
Kumaravadivel Guruparan in Scroll, 5 November 2011, where the title is “Sri Lanka’s political crisis explained, and what it means for the island nation’s Tamil community” In November 2014, Maithripala Sirisena, who was then a cabinet minister and member of … Continue reading →
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The Dressing Down of the Century: President Sirisena’s Scathing Sermon to his Captive Cabinet
Darshanie Ratnawalli’s Pithy Translation of President Sirisena’s Speech to His Present Cabinet … with some asides on the reception among his captive audience Associated with our victory in 2015 there were many aspirations, hopes, wishes of the people. During the … Continue reading →
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The Many Strands of Extremism TODAY: Salafi, Racial, Chauvinist and HR
Michael Roberts, reproducing an essay presented in Colombo Telegraph in 2015 with the title “Secular Fundamentalism in One-Eyed Overkill” …. because of indications that personnel pushing rights-programmes take adamantine positions that blind them to their own distortions and rigidity of … Continue reading →
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A Presidential Coup …. and A Major Political Crisis
Asanga Welikala, courtesy of Groundviews, whose preferred title is “Paradise Lost? Preliminary Notes on a Constitutional Coup” There were three dramatic announcements on the evening of Friday 26th October 2018 from the Presidential Secretariat, which occurred in the following order: … Continue reading →
