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Holy War Unmasked
Brian Victoria …… Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. John Donne Introduction: Is religion a force for peace or war? Or to borrow a phrase from the title of Christopher Hitchen’s book, God … 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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Sri Lanka in 1988: Experiencing ‘Ordinary Living’ in A Conflict Zone
John Richardson, whose title in this article conveying diary notes runs thus: “Ordinary Living” in the Midst of Civil War Notes to Family and Friends“[1] … with highlighting and pics inserted by The Editor, Thuppahi February 1988: After getting settled … Continue reading →
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DEMONS IN PARADISE renders filmmaker Ratnam as a Tamil Traitor
Item in MSN.COM, 17 September 2018, with this title “I wanted ‘my side’ to lose the war” By his own admission filmmaker Jude Ratnam is a “traitor”. A Tamil himself, he blames the Tamil Tigers for many of the atrocities … Continue reading →
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An Incisive Note in Demolition of the R2P Programme of the Western Mighty
Gerald H. Peiris … A Memo prresented this December 2019 on the basis of articles on R2P presented initially in 2007. There is no difficulty about accessing the considerable volume of writings available on the R2P ‘Principle’/’Norm’.
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The Political Tussles behind the Cricketing Grounds in Colombo, 1945-2018
Nicholas Brookes and Benjamin Golby in The Cricket Monthly, 19 November 2018, where the title is “In Colombo, three is not a crowd” ….. courtesy of the two authors, my new pals…. with some liberty on my part with reference … Continue reading →
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Woollacott’s Insight in 1976: Tamils set for Guerilla War and Secession
In sorting through my papers I came across a news cutting that is historically significant. Here was one occasion where a visiting journalist deciphered a developing scenario correctly. That I retained the clipping in papers relating to an article I … Continue reading →
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Ceylon, Percy Fawcett and the Quest for the Lost City of Zed
Vinod Moonesinghe, courtesy of Roar Life, where the title is “The Lost City of Zed: Lanka’s Link” In March 2018, the magazine Nature Communications published an article by a team of archaeologists from Exeter University. The team had been investigating possible ancient settlements in … Continue reading →
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Sinhalese War Poems and the Portuguese
Rohini Paranavitana … a reprint of an article from Jorge Flores (ed.) Re-exploring the links. History and Constructed History=ies between Portugal and Sri Lanka, Wiesbaden, Harassowitz Verlag , 2007, pp. 49-62. Sri Lankan classical literature enriched with Buddhist thought did … Continue reading →
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James Taylor, Tea and Empire in Victorian Ceylon
“Tea and empire. James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon ” by Angela McCarthy and Tom Devine … is now in print, July 2017, Manchester University Press, 272 pp, ISBN: 978-1-5261-1905, Price: £25.00 This book brings to life for the first time the … Continue reading →
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