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Palestinian Rights …Now Obliterated….
Observer from A Black Sea Town SEE https://youtu.be/O4d7YZ2KU-I?si=Mkz4-Y_A3xAXaMkv AND … Part 2 https://youtu.be/hgkFVWS9ohU?si=4S6SiUoBbBSOT81K This UN film The Palestinians do have rights (1978), in two parts, provides a glimpse into Palestine after British intervention, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. From the perspective of 2025, 47 … Continue reading →
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Fresh Light on the Mandapams in the Temples of Jaffna
Prof. T. Sanathanan is scheduled to present a TALK entitled “The Building of a ‘New’ Identity: Mandapams of Jaffna Temples” as part of the The Monthly Lecture Series No: 163 of the National Trust .… on Thursday 29th August 2024 at … Continue reading →
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CR De Silva: Basic Sources on the Advent of the Karava & Salagama Castes in Sri Lanka
CR De Silva in Memo responding to a Query from Shihan De Silva in UK The evidence as to from what parts of India the KSD (Karava, Salagama, Durawa) castes arrived in Sri Lanka is not totally clear, but there … Continue reading →
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Nova Peris: What’s in Her Name?
Michael Roberts In step with David Sansoni’s email questioning Victor Melder has categorically challenged my speculative suggestion that NOVA PERIS may possibly have had a grandparent who was a Sri Lankan pearler/trader/seaman in the north-western reaches of Australia . VICTOR: … Continue reading →
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The School Thombos in Dutch Ceylon: Their Purpose
Bente de Leede & Nadeera Rupesinghe, whose article appeared in the Law and History Review , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , August 2023 , pp. 501 – 521 …. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248022000499 ……. with the full title of the article being thus: “Registering and Regulating Family … Continue reading →
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Conflicting Readings of Sri Lanka’s Pre-Capitalist Past
Presenting a Review Essay compiled by Michael Roberts in 2010 that was presented in the SRI LANKA GUARDIAN on the 15th August 2010 … with this title: “Ethnic Identity in Sri Lanka’s Pre-Capitalist Past: Shanie, Darshanie and Roberts” When Darshanie … Continue reading →
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Adopting Mongrel Colourings & Becoming Thuppahi
Michael Roberts, presenting an old essay prnted in the Lanka Monthly Digest in 2002 that was entitled “Sri Lankan-ness …. and Being Mongrel” ** The impending peace negotiations and the demand for self-determination by the LTTE and most (?) Tamils residing … Continue reading →
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Harini Amarasuriya’s New Year Message to All Sri Lankans
In TPS Courtesy of Charlees Schokman in Melbournev…. New Year Message from the Hon. Prime Minister As we move forward to the New Year of 2026, it is timely to reflect on the year 2025 that has passed. The year 2025 … Continue reading →
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Not all Issues are Black or White: Some Voices from the Offspring of Cross-Cultural Marriages
Audrey Maxwell [nee Roberts] … a chapter in Rosemary Breger and Rosana Hill (eds). Cross-Cultural Marriage. Identity and Choice, Oxford, Berg, 1998, …. ISBN 1 85973 968 7 paper … with this reproduction being rendered possible by our nephew-in-law Tissa … Continue reading →
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Karuna in Britain in 2008: The Legal ‘Knots’
DBS Jeyaraj, in the Financial Times, 28 March 2025 where the title reads “How UK-sanctioned “Col” Karuna was deported from Britain 17 years ago” Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias “Col” Karuna After the UK sanctions were imposed the Tamil newspaper “Thamilan” interviewed Karuna … Continue reading →
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