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October 15, 2014 · 11:43 pm

All About EBOLA

Courtesy of Arunachalam Sathananthan   A Liberian health department burial team removes a suspected Ebola victim’s body in Monrovia — Getty Ebola is thought to have originated in fruit bats and to have been introduced into the human population through close … Continue reading →

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October 20, 2014 · 7:09 am

The Osama Bin Laden Killing in Graphic Detail. An American Way of Telling

Larry Pickering: “Obama avoids paying his Bin Laden Bill,” 20 October 2014, at http://pickeringpost.com/story/obama-avoids-paying-his-bin-laden-bill/3971A Alternative Title: “Who Shot Osama?” — “WE ALL did it” says the Navy Seal Shooter There is little sympathy for the Pakistani who fingered Osama Bin … Continue reading →

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October 9, 2013 · 2:04 am

Into the Vanni and Jaffna of the 17th Century

Darshani Ratnawalli His name was Knox. Robert Knox. English. He was a prisoner in Lanka from 1660 to 1680. Finally he escaped from Kandy or more specifically from Rajasinha II, who claimed to be the sovereign overlord of the whole … Continue reading →

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December 30, 2013 · 12:30 pm

Service to humankind: Venkateswaran father & son

I: N. Venkateswaran, 1900-1973 My Father  N Venkateswaran was a graduate of St Thomas’ College in Kerala, a Jesuit institution & it was not surprising that he found his niche as a teacher in another Jesuit institution, St Aloysius’ College … Continue reading →

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December 14, 2009 · 11:39 pm

Dayan Jayatilleka’s pragmatic politics

PRUDENT TWO-POINT PROGRAM FOR PRAGMATIC TAMIL POLITICS by Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy of http://www.transcurrents.com,  where it appeared first on 13 Dec. 2009 and continues to excite comments. It is repeated here because it is as cogent as pertinent and serves as … Continue reading →

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July 18, 2010 · 6:55 am

Colonialism, caste and custom: revisiting governmentality

 Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne, reprint form South Asia Research, 2007,  Vol. 27 (3): 355–361. A review article, evaluating Nicholas B. Dirks, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (Princeton and London: Princeton University Press, 2001), xiii + 372 pp. … Continue reading →

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August 12, 2010 · 3:06 am

Reflections on the Disclosures by Kumaran Pathmanathan

Gerald Peiris, Courtesy of Island, 10 August 2010 The contents of the report based on an interview with Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP), published in The Island of 29-31 July 2010, give reason to ponder over the issue of whether the report … Continue reading →

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September 6, 2011 · 1:28 pm

Forbidden Fruits? Niromi de Soyza under Scrutiny

Michael Roberts, courtesy of http://www.groundviews.org, where the article appeared earlier  under a slightly different title The literary world is now poised on the brink wondering if the Tamil Tigress (Allen & Unwin, 2011) is going to join Forbidden Love (Random House, … Continue reading →

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May 13, 2013 · 3:10 pm

Step-by-Step moves forward creatively in Sri Lanka rebuilding shattered lives across the board

Step-By-Step Studio Images Mystery Painting Studios, like the Step-by-Step Studio in Colombo, are not primarily about “doing” something. They are about “being” something: being peace, being hope, being adaptable and dependable in situations that change rapidly and are far from … Continue reading →

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December 26, 2010 · 10:25 am

Symbolic Tamil Incursions at Cricket Events, 1975 and 2008

Michael Roberts 1 Paper presented at Crises and Opportunities: Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 5 – 8 July 2010, held at the University of Adelaide, Australia – see http://www.adelaide.edu.au/asaa2010/reviewed_papers/  Essays on the … Continue reading →

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