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Lessons Derived from the Anti-Muslim Riots of 1915 …. For Today
Walter Wuthmann, in Daily News, 7 May 2018, where the title runs: “Revisiting 1915: Lessons from A Violent Past” The recent mob attacks[ against Muslim families and property in Kandy is another sad chapter in Sri Lanka’s history of ethnic … Continue reading →
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Charting Anagarika Dharmapala’s Many Pursuits
Nandasiri Jasentuliyana, reviewing Bhadrajee S. Hewage’s book “A NAME FOR EVERY CHAPTER: Anagarika Dharmapala and Ceylonese Buddhist Revivalism” ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ – Socrates. Rarely has so much been written both in the West and in the … Continue reading →
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Experiencing Denigration in Sri Lanka: The Muslims Yesterday and Today
Shamara Wettimuny, in History Workshop, 7 September 2020, where the title runs “The Colonial History of Islamophobic Slurs in Sri Lanka”** Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic, multi-faith island. Yet despite centuries of physical coexistence, ethnic, religious and linguistic differences continue … Continue reading →
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Ideological Blindness at Peradeniya in the Early 1970s: Inattentive to the Emerging Tamil Storm
Michael Roberts Recent mail exchanges with a British gentlemen seeking information on British plantations led me to Tom Barron and his stay at Peradeniya University and to the Ceylon Studies Seminar of the late 1960s and early 1970s. While my … Continue reading →
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About the Kāberi in Colonial Ceilao and the Fort of Galle
Michael Roberts Writing in the Daily News in March 2019 and deploying the affirmation of a South African diplomat, Jeevan Thiagarajah has lamented the alleged fact that the VOC Black African used slave labour to build the imposing Fort of … Continue reading →
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Shirley De Alwis: The Hand behind Peradeniya University’s Designs
KNO Dharmadasa** Shirley D’Alwis, the first University Architect, died in harness. He was working day and night to complete the job entrusted to him – the preparation of the buildings he had designed and started constructing – for the university … Continue reading →
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The Nomenclature and Lineaments of White-Brown Cohabitation in British Ceylon: A Puzzle
MEMO from Michael Roberts, October 16 October 2021 Moving from BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI to the Greet and Paynter lineages in British Ceylon-and-thereafter has raised a query in my mind: how is it that the category “ANGLO-Ceylonese” did not … Continue reading →
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In Appreciation of Malathi de Alwis: Such An Untimely Death
ONE — A Letter in Sadness from Professor Veena Das to Pradeep Jeganathan, January 2021 First of all, I want to convey my sadness and my gratefulness and to some extent my rage that this has happened and that … Continue reading →
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Sustaining Memory as a Central Facet of Transitional Justice
Gehan Gunatilleke: “The Right to Memory: The Forgotten Facet of Transitional Justice* with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter … Continue reading →
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The JVP Movement Revisited
Mick Moore, reproducing an article he has sent — one placed in POLITY on the 20th September 2021…. http://ssalanka.org/insurrectionary-jvp-sri-lankan-state-mick-moore/. His prefered title is “The Insurrectionary JVP and the Sri Lankan State” …. The highlighting in the essay below are the … Continue reading →
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