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Betting Shops and Racy Characters within Galle Fort

From Daily News, 3 January 2013 Juliet Coombe took a gamble on entering the forts inner sanctum, the Galle Fort betting shops in the heart of popular pedlars street. From early morning to late afternoon, men scurry in and out … Continue reading

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Elmore Perera castigates Parliament and the Regime

Elmore Perera 01. The Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka purportedly consists of representatives elected by the Sovereign people of Sri Lanka. This Parliament is currently debating (on 10th and 11th January 2013), what is undoubtedly the … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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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