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Territorial Claims: First Settlers & Their Primacy
Michael Roberts, presenting an article published in 2005 as a pamphlet by the ICES, Colombo with this title “The First Settlers and Their Claim to Ownership of Terrain/State. A Comparative Excursion” … an essay originally presented in Abdul Rahman Embong, Rethinking … Continue reading →
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Memories of Peradeniya University Campus Sparked by A Visit in 2012
Rex Olegasegaram, whose favöured title runs thus: “Peradeniya Campus – A Visit Down Memory Lane In November, 2012 when I drove into the Peradeniya University along with my wife Navaranjini, it was indeed a wonderful visit down memory lane covering … Continue reading →
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Vesak: The Emergence of Buddhism in the Indian Subcontinent
Uditha Devapriya … an original essay with the title ppreferred by Uditha being “Some Reflections on Vesak” By the 6th century BC, the centre of Indian civilisation had shifted to the Ganges Valley. Social and economic conditions made possible the … Continue reading →
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The Religious Threads and Corporate Institutions behind Our World Wars?
Brian Victoria, presenting an article that has appeared in Countercurrents on 19 October 2021 with this title “Something Worse than Slavery?” With the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement, together with the emergence of Critical Race Theory, the spotlight … Continue reading →
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Kurunegala Then and Now
Uditha Devapriya, in The Island, 31 July 2021, where the title reads “Round and About in Kurunegala” Covering 65 kilometres, the road from Colombo to Ambepussa is fairly straight. From there it turns left and right, up and down. To … Continue reading →
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A Diehard Empiricist Responds
KM De Silva, in Daily News, 8 April 1991 Michael Roberts’s response to my review of his book (the Daily News 19 and 20 September 1990) published in the Daly News of 27 March 1991 is at once characteristic and … Continue reading →
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For Lanka: Lessons from the Past and Lee Kwan Yew
Somasundaram Skandakumar’s Address to the Rotary Club in Colombo, July 2021 … as presented in The Sunday Island, 11 July 2021… with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi …. with this title “Where we went wrong and the possible course … Continue reading →
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Standing Forth as Ceylonese in the Early 19th Century
Michael Roberts …. presenting the first section in Chapter X of People Inbetween (1989) pp 140-47. … The chapter is entitled “Standing Forth as Ceylonese, 1850s” *++* Introduction We need to begin by reaching back into the Maritime Provinces of … Continue reading →
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Sinhala Nationalism
Rajesh Venugopal, … presenting here the second chapter in his book Nationalism, Development and the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Cambridge University Press, 2018,…. 78-1-108-42879 8 hdback Sinhala nationalism is the dominant form of political consciousness in contemporary Sri Lanka. As … Continue reading →
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The Galoya Valley Scheme & the People who made it a Reality
KK De Silva, who was an employee of the RVDB from 1967-1979 Introduction Sir James Emerson Tennent, Colonial Secretary from 1845 to 1850, at page 432 of his book, Account of the Island of Ceylon ….. … Continue reading →
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