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The Economic Sinking of Island Lanka: The IMF-US Monsters
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose preferred title is “Alternatives to the IMF and the future of the Welfare State: Beyond the blame game between Superpowers” The economic proxy war between the rising and fading Superpowers is escalating and expanding in the “Asian … Continue reading →
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Assorted Data on Walter T. Stace
A = A Note from Lucy McCann at the Bodleian Library in Oxford – Michael Roberts, some years back… At the Institute of Commonwealth Studies there is an autobiography of W.T. Stace as a civil servant in Ceylon, written in … Continue reading →
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Scott Atran on Unconditional Commitment draws Reflections from Thuppahi Roberts
ONE: Scott Atran: “The Devoted Actor Unconditional Commitment and Intractable Conflict across Cultures,” … as introduced to Thuppahi by The Library of Social Science,in New York, … with this abstract at journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/685495 Uncompromising wars, revolution, rights movements, and today’s global … Continue reading →
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Always Ahead of the Present: Farewell Barbara Sansoni
Nazreen, Anjalendran & Ismeth farewell Barbara Sansoni —https://thuppahis.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=post&calypsoify=1 ONE; Nazreen Sansoni, ……… Barbara Sansoni, the well-known Sri Lankan artist and designer, passed away on April 23rd at around 1.10 a.m., just one hour after her 94th birthday. Dominic, her devoted … Continue reading →
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Peradeniya Practices: Face-to-Face in Debate
Michael Roberts Both Kingsley de Silva and this writer were nourished as undergraduates, and then as teachers, in the History Department at Peradeniya University in the 1950s and 1960s. This atmosphere fostered vigorous debate. The epitome of debate was deepened … Continue reading →
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Deeply Wounded. Also Divided? Sri Lanka Today
Neloufer De Mel, in History Today, Vol 72/8, September 2022, where the title reads “Sri Lanka’s Deep Wounds” ** On 31 March 2022 a public protest occurred in the vicinity of the home of the Sri Lankan president Gotabhaya Rajapakse. … Continue reading →
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Analysing the Many Threads of Religiosity in Sri Lanka
Lynn Ockersz, in The Island, 19 August 2022, where the title reads “An incisive exploration of Sri Lanka’s religiosity” … with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi This timely publication could be described as a revelation of the fascinating nature … Continue reading →
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The Rise of Tribalism
Tony Donaldson I can remember a time back in the early years of this century when the age of cosmopolitanism was in fashion. It was a beautiful time. One of the great benefits of cosmopolitanism is that it allowed us … Continue reading →
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World Powers Head-to-Head
Ross Douthat, in New York Times, 26 February 2022, with this title “Vladimir Putin’s Clash of CIvilizations” When the United States, in its hour of hubris, went to war to remake the Middle East in 2003, Vladimir Putin was a … Continue reading →
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Fashioning History in Sri Lanka: Controversies
Michael Roberts Abstract of the article below: Two arrival stories in the long span of the island’s history will provide the foundations for reflections on history-making in the modern era. Episode One will pursue my own intellectual trail in the … Continue reading →
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