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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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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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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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Deciphering the Past to Secure Reform in the Present
Michael Roberts Let me suggest that in any country one cannot address the fundamental problems of the present without understanding its immediate past. This prescription was/is inherent in an article that I penned for the Indian journal FRONTLINE in June … Continue reading →
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Remembering KM Chellappah, Founder oF Jaffna Public Library
Item in the Daily News, 5 March 2026, entitled “Jaffna honours Father of the Library” The Jaffna Public Library recently hosted a commemoration to mark the 130th birth anniversary of its pioneer, Kanagasabai Mudalithambiyar Chellappah (1896–1958). This event celebrated a … Continue reading →
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Professor HL Seneviratne: An Outstanding Career
Professor M. W. Amarasiri de Silva, in The ISLAND, March 2026 …where the title runs “A Tribute to Professor H. L. Seneviratne,” while the highlighting here is The Editor’s intervention My earliest memories of the eminent anthropologist, Professor H. L. … Continue reading →
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The Milieu of the 17th Century Coromandel Coast and Chetty Migrants to Dutch Zeylan
Naren Chitty Introduction: The Coromandel Coast milieu of 17th century Chetty migrants to Zeylan is addressed here in relation to Udayappa Chetty (d. 1693). He was an ancestor of the Chetty family of Christian S. Chitty (1841-1891), as well as others … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Maritime Legacy: A Discerning Study … Many Revelations
Avishka Mario Senewiratne in The Island, 24 August 2025, where the title is “A Mirror to the Sea: Revisiting Sri Lanka’s Forgotten Maritime Legacy” …. Review of “Sri Lanka, Serendib & the Silk Road of the Sea” by Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha … Continue reading →
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