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Facing Religious Zealots: Easter Sunday 21/4 Placed in a Global Conetxt
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, in .. where the ttile runs thus “Geopolitics Of The Easter Attacks: The Weaponization Of Religion Amid Hybrid War” “We have met the enemy and he is us” — Walt Kelly from Pogo Comics, quoted in “The ISIS … Continue reading →
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Jehan Perera seeks Inclusive Nationalism amidst Pluralism from the Present Regime
Jehan Perera, whose favoured title runs thus: “Complement Inclusive Nationalism with Equality-Based Pluralism for Citizens” During the election campaign the ruling party and its allies legitimized their call for a 2/3 majority in parliament on the basis that a change … Continue reading →
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BBC Documentary Series on 21/4 Jihadist Terror in Sri Lanka
A Two-Part Series ONE = https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2020/14/terror-in-paradise … Confirmed for BBC Two on 6 April at 9pm to 10pm TWO = https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h3hh
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Essays on Sinhala Buddhist Extremism towards the Muslims in Sri Lanka
Iselin Frydenlund** presenting a review article in the Journal of Religion and Violence, Vol. 6, No. 2, 201830 … reviewing Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka. Edited by John Clifford Holt. Oxford University Press, 2016. … Continue reading →
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The Exiled Malays, Javanese et al in Ceilao and Lanka Today and Yesterday
Greg Fealy reviewing Ronit Ricci, Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, 282pp, ISBN 978-1-108-72724-2…… https://www.newmandala.org/book-review/banishment-and-belonging-exile-and-diaspora-in-sarandib-lanka-and-ceylon-2019/ For well over a century, Sri Lanka was the Dutch colonial administration’s main site of exile … Continue reading →
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Portuguese Imprints in Sri Lankan Culture
Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, in The Island April 25, 2020, Tracing the Portuguese Cultural Imprint on Sri Lanka” Way back in 1998, I theorised on the extent of Lusitanisation in Sri Lanka, in my paper entitled The Portuguese Cultural … Continue reading →
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Populist Pressures as the Central Problem in Lanka’s Recent History …. And So, too, Now
Kumar David, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, 4 December 2019 where the title is “Ethnic conflict -The Problem is the People” Today’s column is of an academic nature, where names are used it is for illustration, not to bestow praise or … Continue reading →
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Sri Lankan Expressiveness: Warm Gratitude and Vicious Vituperation
Michael Roberts I did not see the article that highlighted the manner in which the Tamil people of Vishvamadu feted and lamented the departure of the Sinhalese Military Commander of that arena, Ratnapriya Bandu, when it was originally placed in … Continue reading →
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Galle Fort built on the Backs of African Slave Labour
Jeevan Thiagarajah in Daily News, 25 March 2019, with this title“Slaves built Galle Fort” … …. with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi The topic of the piece today was triggered by a conversation with the current High Commissioner … Continue reading →
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Under Fire: Sri Lanka’s Colonization Programmes and Economic Policies 1920s-to-2020
Michael Roberts An Excursion in Mid-May 2021 In mid-May I received a short note from a Sri Lankan [SR] in Colombo which contained potentially severe criticisms of the colonisation programmes initiated by the colonial and post-colonial government in the course … Continue reading →
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