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Vignettes in Assessment of Angela Merkel, A Scientist become World Leader Par Excellence
Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Staff Writer, in an article presented on 28 May 2019 entitled “German chancellor, Harvard’s Commencement speaker, explain her rise to longtime prominence” “Merkel advises graduates: Break the walls that hem you in”
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Achtung! Whiffs of Tiger Militarism and Tamil Federalism in Recent Talk and Action
ONE: Camelia Nathaniel, in Daily News, 9 July 2020, which carries this title “Resurrection of LTTE’s Agenda of Violence” The LTTE network overseas has been planning a series of attacks in Sri Lanka since the war ended in May 2009. … Continue reading →
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Today’s HR Drumbeats vs GSL: Some Critical Responses
Challenges to Recent HR Allegations from Amanda Hodge and Others A recent criticism by Amanda Hodge in The Australian is one mark of the vociferous claims that human rights activists are under threat in Sri Lanka today under the new … Continue reading →
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Justice decimated with Gota’s Ominous Step: Military Murderer Rathnayake pardoned
ONE: Ambika Satkunanathan: “Presidential Pardon emphasizes the State’s Privileges and the Denial of Justice Lawyer, human rights advocate and former Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, Ambika Satkunanathan, questioned the basis for the presidential pardon of Sunil Rathnayake and … Continue reading →
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The Tamil Buddhists of the Anuradhapura Civilization
J.L. Devananda on Sunil Ariyaratne and His Thesis on the Tamil Buddhists of Ancient Sri Lanka …. with this title “The Tamil Buddhists of the Past and the Future”.….. in Sri Lanka Guardian, 10 October 2010 at ……………… …… https://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=43,9583,0,0,1,0#.XO2iAhbASUk … Continue reading →
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Extremist Fervour as Roadblock for Reconciliation: A High Profile Example from the Galle-Lit-Fest
RK Radhakrishnan, in The Hindu, 2011 (?) … https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/reconciliation-elusive-on-the-ground/article6164031.ece The packed hall at the Galle Literary Festival was stunned into silence by a series of abuses hurled on a Sri Lankan human rights activist by a member in the audience. … Continue reading →
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Political Crisis and Ethnic Conflicts in Sri Lanka: A Rejoinder to Michael Roberts
K. M. de Silva, being an article published in the Ethnic Studies Report, Vol. 6/1, January 1988 …. a riposte to a Review of his book Managing Ethnic Tensions in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Sri Lanka, 1880-1985, (1985) … Continue reading →
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Today’s Bureaucratic Subservience in Sri Lanka: The Tale of Its Emergence and Entrenchment
H. L. Seneviratne reviewing Your Obedient Servant: The Fate of the Bureaucrat in Sri Lanka by Suren Sumithraarachchi, Sarasavi Publishers 2019 …. Courtesy of Colombo Telegraph = https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/book-review-politics-the-bureaucracy/ This book deals with the higher bureaucracy in Sri Lanka, and its … Continue reading →
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A Review of the Book BUDDHISM TRANSFORMED
Premkumara De Silva,** in The Midweek Review of The Island, 17 May 2005, where the title runs ” Anthropology of ‘Sinhala Buddhism’ “ The disciplinary identification of “Buddhism” in Sri Lanka as an anthropological object began in the late 1950s … Continue reading →
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The Eastern Regions of Sri Lanka in British Times
Michael Roberts My D. Phil dissertation at Oxford in the early 1960s centred on British agrarian policy in the mid-nineteenth century and therefore included the British efforts to revive the tank irrigation systems of the Sinhala past. Several British colonial … Continue reading →
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