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Nationalisms in Ceylon: Origins, Stimulants and Ingredients
Michael Roberts, … reproducing Chapter III in Volume I of Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and Nationalist Politics in Ceylon, 1929-1950, Vol I, 1977, Department of National Archives, 1977 , pp. lxviii–lxxviii ** While the political activists of the … Continue reading →
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Covid Knowledge in California
Dr Deepthi Jayasekara, April 05, 2020in essay entitled “COVID 19-What we know now” ** The phase 1 of the COVID-19 pandemic is over and we are in phase 2 now. Phase one dealt with preparedness for the crisis which was … Continue reading →
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Fallacious Historical Claims pressed by Wigneswaran
Rienzie Wijetilleke and Kusum Wijetilleke, in Island, 4 September 2020,with this title “False perspectives of Wigneswaran” Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith’s recent comments regarding racial and religious politics were most timely. In a climate where religious leaders seek to become political … 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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LH Mettananda assessed by DB Dhanapala in 1962
DB Dhanapala on LH Mettananda in his book Among those Present, 1962 OF COURSE, L.H. Mettananda is a fanatic. Anybody who dares to talk of Buddhist’s rights in a Buddhist country is bound to be called a fanatic bent on … Continue reading →
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Understanding China: Listen…. Read
SKAGEN Fondene, Jan 26, 2017, “China: myths, propaganda and realities”….. has received 154,285 views LISTEN to Louis Vincent, You Tube = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9hFAlqKmfM
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1948-2019: Intertwined Trajectories summed up …. Sri Lanka and Personnel
Michel Nugawela, in Daily Financial Times, 4 February 2019 In search of a story: Professor Simon Anholt, who coined the term ‘nation brand’, once asked, “If the hand of God should accidentally slip on the celestial keyboard tomorrow and … Continue reading →
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Narendran’s Evaluation of Pirapāharan and the LTTE on the Cusp of Their Demise in February 2009
Dr. Rajasingham Narendran, in Sri Lanka Guardian, 7 February 2009, where the title is “Rise and Fall of the LTTE – An Overview” …. with highlighting emphasis being impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi Sri Lankan armed forces have almost ended … Continue reading →
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Hate. Where An Incisive Cartoon provokes Australian Invective
Michael Leunig, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 2019, where the title runs thus: “Aiming to stir the possum, I got engulfed in free-floating hate” It was exactly 50 years ago that I started working as a full-time newspaper … Continue reading →
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The Horrific Terrors of 21/4: Three Pronouncements
ONE = Ellise Ann Allen: “Sri Lanka: One year after the Easter attacks,” Daily News, 23 April 2020, http://www.dailynews.lk/2020/04/23/features/217020/sri-lanka-one-year-after-easter-attacks On the one-year anniversary of a series of Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that killed nearly 300 people and injured … Continue reading →
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