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FRONTLINE — Focus on Sri Lanka’s Woes
COVER STORY: Sri Lanka: The siege within …..Print edition : May 06, 2022……. [noting that the Editor was not able tomatch PHOTO and its subheading in some places] .R.K. RADHAKRISHNAN People, cutting across communities, are paying the price for the rulers’ … Continue reading →
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Sri Lankan Expressiveness: Warm Gratitude and Vicious Vituperation
Michael Roberts I did not see the article that highlighted the manner in which the Tamil people of Vishvamadu feted and lamented the departure of the Sinhalese Military Commander of that arena, Ratnapriya Bandu, when it was originally placed in … Continue reading →
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Turbulent Times & Anxious Moments in Sri Lanka in 1988
John R Richardson**
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Addressing Shenali Waduge and the One-Eyed UNHRC Hunters, One
Michael Roberts Shenali Waduge has a long history as a defender of Sinhala interests within and beyond the island of Sri Lanka. In quite a few minds she would be classified as a Sinhala chauvinist. One must, however, not throw … Continue reading →
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Cool Bravery under Gunfire — That was Dilshan at Lahore, 3 March 2009
News Item, Times Online, 11 March 2019, with title “Cricket: Paul Farbrace credit Dilshan for his bravery a decade after Lahore attack” Ten years after Sri Lankan cricketers came under a terrorist attack in Lahore, Paul Farbrace–the team’s assistant coach … Continue reading →
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Undermining ISIS from within the Dungeons of the Cyberworld
Paul Maley, in The Australian, 25 March 2019, where the title is “How Aussie Spies won Propaganda War against ISIS” In late-2016, as coalition aircraft pounded Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq, the Australian Defence Force’s Commander of Joint … Continue reading →
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Tamil Tiger ‘Martyrs’: Regenerating Divine Potency?
This article from my pen was probably drafted in 2004. It appeared in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism vol. 28 in 2005 after the usual refereeing process. Some of the details and arguments have, in fact, been obliterated within my … Continue reading →
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Meeting Anne Abayasekara and Her World: Reflective Words
Published by Perera & Hussein (Bay Owl Press)….……..PRICE: Rs 1250/- (approx US$7.50 / Aus $10.50 / Euro6.50/ Stg 6) ………………….. World-wide orders – copies may be purchased online at the following link:- https://pererahussein.com/index.php/books/non-fiction/telling-it-like-it-is-phph.html…… Postage (approx Rs 1000 for Australia & Europe)
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Gandhara: Civilisation at the Crossroads
Sachitra Mahendra, Daily News, 20 March 2019, March 20, 2019, “A Talk at the Seminar on Buddhist and Gandhara Civilisation: The Cultural Nexus between Pakistan and Sri Lanka”
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Facing Charles Sarvan: Mark His Obliteration of Context
Michael Roberts Charles Sarvan’s recent essay in Colombo Telegraph “On ‘Reading’ A Picture” presents reflections with a dispassionate air that conveys an impression of philosophical weight above the tumult of a propaganda war in which all of us are willy-nilly … Continue reading →
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