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Malala in Thuppahi in October ’13 and on Nobel Prize World Pedestal in October 2014

October 15, 2013 · 2:13 am….…http://thuppahis.com/2013/10/15/malala-yousafzai-speaks-to-the-world/ Malala Yousafzai, aged 16, speaks to the World SEE  Interview with Malala Yousafzai ….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGL6YY6oMs http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/world/asia/malala-shooting-anniversary/index.html http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/malala-yousafzai-honored-nobel-peace-prize-nom-article-1.1482919

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Encounters with Mervyn de Silva, 1960s-1980s

Michael Roberts, drafted September 2010 The odd story about former undergraduate Mervyn de Silva would be retailed around the corridors of Peradeniya campus when I was residing there as an undergraduate from 1957, an indication that he had etched his … Continue reading

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Susan Kurozawa’s Magnificent Seven tourist havens

Susan Kurozawa, in The Weekend Australian Magazine, 15-16 October 2011 In our big,  broad contemporary world of travel, taste and opportunity are everything. One person’s campground is another’s castle, one’s lofty art gallery is another’s high adventure. No list of wonders … Continue reading

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Shavendra Silva at Framingham: two reviews by Senaratne and Petrishen

Shavendra Silva in Boston: A Different Kind of’ Confrontation by Kalana Senaratne, from the Island, 7 February 2011 Does the shaking of hands, a hand-shake, this decent act of touching human flesh, mean anything, anything significant and meaningful? In the … Continue reading

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The Vocabulary of “Nation” in English in the Early Modern Period

Michael Roberts, Rohana Wasala’s essay[1] on the Sinhala vocabulary of “nation-ness,” set beside Kumar Sangakkara’s heart-warming emphasis on the multiethnic and multi-religious character of his sentiments[2] within the background provided by the island’s mosaic tapestry, together provide the rationale for … Continue reading

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Evaluating the “Churnalism” from Channel 4 and the Moon Panel

Padraig Colman EXTRACTS from a long review by an Irishman who now lives in Sri Lanka and has engaged in high journalese in the West. He is relatively non-partisan and his fuller version is well worth careful perusal. See  http://pcolman.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/channel-4-news-and-sri-lankan-war-crimes/   Continue reading

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Honing in on KP– DBS and Pramod Kumar

 KP as depicted in Interpol files I: “KP moves from Colombo to Thamilcelvan’s House in Kili” …. DBS Jeyaraj in transcurrents  KP with Prabhakaran, Shankar and Anton Balsainghma during the halcyon days of Thamililam Selvarasah Pathmanathan alias “KP” who is … Continue reading

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Victor Rajakulendran’s Tirade at the Exposure of Pirapaharan’s Admiration for Hitler

Michael Roberts When one of the early LTTE fighters of the period 1974-to-1984, namely, Chinniah Rajeshkumar whose nom de guerre was Rāgavan  revealed to the world the processes leading to Tamil militancy in the 1970s and elaborated upon the early … Continue reading

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Hitler’s parents’ grave in Austria: headstone removed

Courtesy of the Associated Press, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-30/hitler-parents-grave/53893852/1 The tombstone marking the grave of Adolf Hitler‘s parents,

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Nirupama on Lessons from Geneva

Nirupama Subramanium, in The Hindu, 7 April 2007 As Sri Lanka mulls over last month’s United Nations Human Rights Council resolution, it may look back with nostalgia at its 2009 triumph at Geneva. Then, barely a week after its victory … Continue reading

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