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Fire-Storm Images, IV: Tamil Commitment to Their Cause
A road junction memorial for Annai Poopathi in Batticaloa District, Annai Poopathi, a mother of ten children and aged 55, fasted unto death in protest against the IPKF presence in Sri Lanka, breathing her last on 19th April 1988. –thereby backing … Continue reading →
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Madras Murder Most Foul
Benjamin Golby, courtesy of ESPNs The Cricket Monthly, May 2017, where it is entitled Madras machinations”” . In Madras the umpire was murdered and it made us all uneasy. If this was the sort of place where umpires got … Continue reading →
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Ceylon Tea and Its Surrounds: Richard Simon’s Tour de Force
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Sunday Times, 16 July 2017, … http://www.sundaytimes.lk/170716/plus/an-invigorating-draught-250066.html Ceylon Tea is a must-read, must-absorb work of art. Its review of the history of tea in Sri Lanka is set in deep context – context historical, context … Continue reading →
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Reporting War. Outrageous Obfuscations during the Last Phase of Eelam War IV
Michael Roberts The demand for news and the monies generated in mass media mean that journalists attempt to cover modern wars at close quarters. Access to war fronts is dictated by many factors, including location and access as well as … Continue reading →
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Kill Any Sikh: The Anti-Sikh Pogrom of 1984 in Delhi in Bhawan Singh’s IMAGES
Michael Roberts on Bhawan Singh’s Pictorial Images The first two images reveal the agitation and anguish of Indian citizens in Delhi who had rushed to the entrance of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on the 31st October where … Continue reading →
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Murali Reddy’s Frontline Access to the War Zone in May 2009
Shenali D Waduge, reproducing here an old article in Lankaweb from 22 December 2013 which I had not seen even though I had interacted closely with Murali in Colombo in May-June 2009 (as well as subsequently) and been commissioned to write pieces … Continue reading →
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A Mundane Announcement about An Outstanding Event
Three or four News Agencies provided this rather prosaic notice about the launching of Major-General Kamal Gunaratne’s THE ROAD TO NANDIKADAL in early September; but ‘saved the day’ by deploying interesting snaps. Pic used by http://telo.org/?p=170018 September 4, 2016, Colombo, Sri … Continue reading →
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Final Passage for McGuinness and Prabhākaran: Sharply Contrasting
Michael Roberts The ‘final’ journeys on this our earth for Martin McGuinness and Velupillai Pirapāharan have been sharply different: McGuinness’ mortal remains were borne in March 2017 by his very own with a massive crowd of IRA and other Irish … Continue reading →
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The Death Toll in 2009: Deceit and Myopia, International and Lankan
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph which accepted the idea in principle several days ago, but requested a division of the essay into six parts. Discussion of the death toll during Eelam War IV and the related topic of “The … Continue reading →
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Kandy’s Landscape under Sunday Observer’s Eagle Eye
Sunday Observer Team, 17 May 2017 The Sunday Observer has launched “Cityscape” where our intrepid reporters will visit cities around the country, probing the shortcomings and asking the questions no one dared to ask before. In this segment of Cityscape, … Continue reading →
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