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Lakshman Kadirgamar’s Legacy
H.M.G.S. Palihakkara, in Sunday Times, 11 August 2019, where the title is “Lakshman Kadirgamar: The Legacy of an Icon” Fourteen years ago this month, a suspected LTTE assassin snuffed out the life of Sri Lanka’s best known and widely admired … Continue reading →
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Robert Pape’s Blunders in Tigerland: Pape’s Muddles on ‘Suicide Bombers’ in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts, reprinting here an article which appeared initially in November 2007 as Working Paper No. 32 November 2007 in the Heidelberg Papers on South Asian Politics … ISSN: 1617-5069 …. edited by Subrata Mitra. Insofar as this essay is … Continue reading →
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The Chinese Way: Two Web Site Observations
COMMENT ONE: I am an American who has lived in China for three years. (And very much like living here.) My opinion is not as factual, and surely not as broadly informed, as many of the others so well-expressed here. … Continue reading →
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Becoming and Being Sri Lankan: The National Anthem in Our Mother Tongues
Eranda Ginige, on in Lanka News Web, 6 January 2020, where the title is “The Language of the National Anthem” The Dominion of Ceylon was formed on 4 February 1948 with the singing of Britain’s national anthem “God Save the … Continue reading →
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Calm Intelligence Required, not Islamophobia — says Uyan
Jayadeva Uyangoda, in Sunday Observer, 26 May 2019, where the title runs thus “Fight Terrorism. Avoid Islamophobia” Islamophobia is a term that gained currency in the 1980s in British English. It referred to prejudices against Islam and Muslim people that … Continue reading →
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A Landmark in Ceylon’s Cricket Test History: Beating India in January 1965
Nirgunan Tiruchelvam, in ESPNcricinfo in 2013 — 14 August 2013 to be precise — with this heading “When the Lankans won a ‘Test’ in India” Sri Lanka’s rise in Test cricket is one of the finest underdog stories in the … Continue reading →
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Intolerance. The Deep Currents within Sri Lanka
This last week i received two emails, one from a friend in Canada and another from a well-placed senior person in Colombo, which, quite independently, touched on Ahmaddiya, Christian and Rohingya refugees brought to the island as transit refugees by … Continue reading →
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Hemantha Situge’s Reviews of Two Sinhala Books on Gandhi and Mihindhu
Hemantha Situge One, a review of Mahatma Gandhi: Lanka Gamanaya saha Sri Lankave Dheshapalanya publd by Sarasavi Prakasakayo recently. The splendid book entitled: Mahatma Gandhi – Lanka Gamanaya Saha Deshapalanaya [Mahatma Gandhi’s visit of Ceylon and Sri Lankan Politics] written … Continue reading →
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Politics in Cricket and Cricket for Politics
Meera Srinivasan:, in The Hindu, 17 August 2017, where the title is “Evoking the Politics of Cricket in Sri Lanka,” Sparked by Imran Khan’s ascent to the Prime Minister’s chair in Pakistan, sporting fans in Sri Lanka have been quick … Continue reading →
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Harry Solomons: Sri Lankan Cricketing Wonderman
Sam Perry, courtesy of ESPNcricinfo, 4 January 2017, where the title is “The man behind Sydney’s cricket-gear wonderland” He was a kid from Sri Lanka who came to Australia with no more than A$200 in his pocket and a child … Continue reading →
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