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August 21, 2011 · 4:47 am

Another Demidenko? Niromi de Soyza as a Tiger Fighter

Michael Roberts, 21 August 2011 Niromi de Soyza I began reading de Soyza’s Tamil Tigress in a relaxed moment while at tennis and was captivated by its readability and the author’s capacity to create atmosphere. I was fascinated by its … Continue reading →

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October 29, 2011 · 1:24 pm

Visual Evidence I: Vitality, Value and Pitfall – Borella Junction, 24/25 July 1983

Michael Roberts, 29 October 2011 Pic by Chandragupta Amarasinghe  The anti-Tamil pogrom of July 1983 in the southern reaches of Sri Lanka stirred me to the bone: generating anger and depression in alternate moods as  I ruminated from a distance … Continue reading →

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January 10, 2012 · 1:23 pm

“When Suffering becomes infotainment–just another commodity” — Susan Moeller

Two Reviews of  Susan Moeller’s Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death (Routledge, 1999) 392 pp ONE by Carl Sessions Stepp  in American Journalism Review Here’s one of the perverse conundrums of journalism: If you fail to … Continue reading →

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June 10, 2011 · 3:03 am

Reading “devastation”: Botham, CMJ, Ban Ki-Moon

Michael Roberts, 10 June 2011 Preamble: The seeds of this essay lodged in my mind in early March 2009 when still in Lanka after an email exchange with CMJ; but I was too busy to develop the idea till May. … Continue reading →

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June 22, 2011 · 1:22 am

Renton de Alwis on Channel 4’s One-sided Blindness

Renton de Alwis, Daily News, 22 June 2011 With the Channel 4 ‘spin’ of telecasting the ‘Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’ programme last week, we were once again reminded that relating only one side of the story can be as … Continue reading →

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March 30, 2013 · 9:10 am

A Missing Person in Sri Lanka: Heartfelt Issues & Ground Realities

Michael Roberts, Courtesy of Groundviews, where it appeared on Wednesday last When I was in Sri Lanka from mid-April to early June 2009 I was on holiday with my wife and not able to pursue investigations in any depth. In … Continue reading →

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July 14, 2013 · 4:27 pm

In search of indigenous artists

R. K. de Silva, courtesy of Art Sri Lanka Most of the indigenous artists appears to have been restricted to temple murals and drawings on cloth, such as flags and banners.  Of the few of these artists who painted in … Continue reading →

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December 26, 2010 · 10:25 am

Symbolic Tamil Incursions at Cricket Events, 1975 and 2008

Michael Roberts 1 Paper presented at Crises and Opportunities: Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 5 – 8 July 2010, held at the University of Adelaide, Australia – see http://www.adelaide.edu.au/asaa2010/reviewed_papers/  Essays on the … Continue reading →

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May 22, 2011 · 12:59 pm

Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi: a story of a girl, a photograph and a photographer

Malinda Seneviratne, Daily News, 20 May 2011 Long years ago I was associated with an organization called ‘The National Movement Against Terrorism’ (NMAT). This was at a time when those who called for a military offensive to rid the country … Continue reading →

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October 29, 2012 · 6:09 pm

Janaka Goonetileke’s Atapattu Walawwa

Hemantha Situge, courtesy of The Nation, 28 October 2012, where the title is “Enthusiasts’ Guide to unique Sri Lankan Real Estate“ Atapattu Walawwa, the residence of the Gooneratne and Dias Abeysinghe families, is a richly illustrated antiquarian miscellany on one … Continue reading →

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