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The Carpentry Trade in the Rise of the Karāva in British Ceylon
Professor Sanath Lamabadusuriya The Dutch period opened up several new economic opportunities for the locals, and the British period that followed opened up even more. Carpentry was one of them. Colonial economic activity in the maritime provinces required large buildings … Continue reading →
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The Ceylon Civil Service at Cricket 1910
Michael Roberts The photograph above of the twenty-two men who participated in the cricket match in 1910 between George Vanderspar’s XI and eleven British civil servants in Ceylon has been taken from SP Foenander’s wonderful book Sixty Years of Ceylon … Continue reading →
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Ecumenical Sri Lankans sing Anthem in Both Indigenous Languages
News Item in Colombo Gazette, 4 February 2020 Concerns were raised today over the failure by the Government to sing the National Anthem in Tamil at the main Independence Day event at Independence Square. The National Anthem was sung only … Continue reading →
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Shakespeare’s “Cooking up a Past” AND Sri Lanka
Tom Shakespeare: “Çooking up a Past” in “Collection. No Small Inheritance” …. https://farmerofthoughts.co.uk/collected_pieces/cooking-up-a-past/ …. no date indicated …. but it was clearly written after the tsunami and, in my reckoning penned in late 2005. I have imposed haphazard highlighting …. and … Continue reading →
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Pablo Neruda and Thangamma … His Work in Ceylon
Dr. Kumar Gunawardane. in Island, 13 June 2020, where the title runs “Neruda and his daughter” “It’s night time , I’m alone and sad, Thinking in the light of a flickering candle, about joy and pain, about tired old age, … Continue reading →
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A Joust between a Tamil Nationalist and a Thuppahi Mongrel
Michael Roberts, in Sri Lanka Guardian, 12 September 2011 Early in September [2011] I circulated an item describing efforts mounted by private enterprise in cooperation with the Sri Lankan state (military as well as government agents) to alleviate the life world … Continue reading →
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A Comparative Examination of Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim Demographic Trends in Sri Lanka
Chandre Dhamawardana … with highlighting emphasis added by the Editor, Thuppahi It is a common belief that the Moor population, nearly 99% Muslim in faith, have high demographic rates and also have to capacity to have high birth rates because … Continue reading →
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Interpreting Sigiriya: Confronting Gananath Obeyesekere’s Distortions
Raja De Silva commenting on Gananāth Obēyesēkere: The Buddha in Srī Lankā. Histories and Stories. London: Routledge. 2019 336 pp. The author [GO], an eminent anthropologist, has rejected the evidence (archaeological and literary) that I depended on in my interpretation (de Silva, … Continue reading →
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Reconciliation in Sri Lanka: Prospects Today
Jehan Perera, in The New Age, 20 August 2020, with this title “Opening door to Lanka reconciliation” Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapakse, second from right, and prime minister Mahinda Rajapakse, second from left, along with new cabinet ministers stand for … Continue reading →
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An Essential Coupling: For A Bilingual National Anthem on 4th February
It appears that there are pressures in motion[1] to return to the old Rajapaksa programme of rendering the National Anthem on Independence Day in Sinhala Only. As Eranda Ginige has contended, this would be a retrograde step. Towards our comprehension … Continue reading →
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