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September 6, 2023 · 1:25 am

Continuing IMF-World Bank Machinations Impact on Sri Lanka

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The Disinformation is ramping up in preparation for the IMF visit this month to review SL’s prograss on the required IMF asset sale of coastal and highland lands of the strategic island, to monitor and surveill the Indian … Continue reading →

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February 2, 2023 · 1:40 pm

Kiwis squashed into ‘Chutney’ by India at Ahmedabad

Sidharth Mongia in ESPNcricinfo, 1 February 2023, where the title runs thus “ India 234 for 4 (Gill 126*, Tripathi 44, Pandya 30) beat New Zealand 66 (Mitchell 35, Pandya 4-16, Malik 2-9, Mavi 2-12, Arshdeep 2-16) by 168 runs This is the … Continue reading →

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November 19, 2023 · 1:23 pm

From Little Things Big Things Grow: Antonians Who Excelled Beyond Excellence      

Bernard Vancuylenburg & Sisira Weragoda   Prologue: As an introduction to the subject of this article I had to choose a title which nails it all in just one line. It is the story of an academic miracle which emanated … Continue reading →

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December 19, 2022 · 6:47 pm

Argentina by the Balls! In The Tight Grip of USA & IMF

 Esteban Almiron: “How Argentina has been trapped in neocolonial debt for 200 years: An economic history” .… 19 December 2022, https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/18/argentina-neocolonial-debt-history/ Argentina has constantly been trapped over two centuries in unpayable external debt owed to foreign imperial powers. This affects … Continue reading →

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August 30, 2023 · 2:29 am

Sri Lanka’s Topsy-Turvy Economy in the Last Decade

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake*…. with her choice of title being “Sri Lanka Back as Donor Darling Ignores the BRICS” and a sub-title that runs thus “France’s Macron and the US Fish in the Indian Ocean …. presented here with highlights imposed by … Continue reading →

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January 10, 2023 · 11:19 am

Experts Urge Debt Cancellation as Essential Road for Sri Lanka’s Survival

Item in Newsfirst: “Experts say only debt cancellation offers Sri Lanka a chance of recovery” DEBT JUSTICE speaks out ……. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fXyBHNj_xWU&feature=youtu.be

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December 5, 2022 · 6:45 pm

IMF Intrusions on Sri Lanka’s Economy

Asoka Bandarage, in Asia Times, 2 December 2022, where the title reads thus: “IMF forcing privatization, land and resource grab on Sri Lanka” … On September 1, debt-trapped Sri Lanka reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a 48-month … Continue reading →

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October 10, 2022 · 8:43 pm

In Memoriam. The War Dead … within “A Clear Blue Sky”

Elmo Jayawardena, in The Island,  4 March 2021, where the title reads “A Clear Blue Sky” … bearing this ’emphasis’…. I publish this article just so that we can remember how sad the times were during the war for both … Continue reading →

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June 4, 2022 · 7:28 pm

Lessons from Woolf for a Latter-Day American

Joe Kovacs, in Literary Traveller, 23 June 2005, where the title reads as “The Accidental British Servant: Leonard Woolf in Ceylon” When I joined the Peace Corps and went to Sri Lanka in 1997, I took a leave of absence … Continue reading →

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February 5, 2026 · 2:51 pm

Engaging Obeyesekere’s Wide-ranging Studies of the Kandyan Kingdom

Richard Simon, reviewing … The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom by Gananath Obeyesekere &  The Doomed King: A Requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinha by Gananath Obeyesekere In the deepening twilight of his career, the anthropologist and historian Gananath Obeyesekere … Continue reading →

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