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A Lifetime Addressing Nationalist Political Currents & Zealotry
Michael Roberts As I attend a friend’s funeral every now and then in Adelaide or receive mail conveying sad tidings re good friends and other acquaintances, I am reminded that I will disappear into the dust in due course relatively … Continue reading →
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East Berlin & Check-Point Charlie, 1976 …. The Depth of the Cold War
Michael Roberts My good friend Lam Seneviratne in Colombo has chosen to insert this comment in response to one of the Thuppahi Items: “In 1972 I had the opportunity to go through Checkpoint Charlie at Freidrichstrase to East Berlin. The … Continue reading →
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Victor Ivan, RIP: …. The Wikipedia Memo on Victor
Michael Roberts, I got to know Victor at a convivial session at Ananda Chittambalam’s house in Bambalapitiya in 1989. Our common interests in the island’s history and its tempestuous present meant that we kept in sporadic touch. I have his … Continue reading →
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Remembering David Hookes: A Moving Farewell at Adelaide Oval, 27 January 2001
Michael Roberts reproducing an article from his pen in Baggy Green …. one that was subsequently presented as an E-Paper . The original article carried the title “The Old and the New: In Memoriam, David Hookes” On 25 March 2001 … Continue reading →
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Donald Friend’s Acid Readings of the Sri Lankan Scenario, 1957-1962
EXTRACTS From The DIARIES Of DONALD FRIEND, Volume 3** …. The Ceylon Diaries cover the period 25th January 1957 to 22nd July 1962 and run into 180 pages in small print. During this period Donald Friend, the gifted Australian artist, … Continue reading →
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British Colonial Socio-Political Distinctions via Stace’s Revelation of Life in Galle, 1910 et seq
Michael Roberts Walter Terence STACE was a British man born in Ireland in 1886 who entered the British colonial service after a university education and was assigned to Sri Lanka in 1910. He married a Burgher lady, MM Beven in … Continue reading →
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The Palestine-Israel Conflict: Its Political and Legal Underpinnings
Rohini Hensman: “The Political and Legal Underpinnings of the Palestine-Israel Conflict,” in New Politics, 2023 …. ……………………… https://www.academia.edu/110094670/The_Political_and_Legal_Underpinnings_of_the_Palestine_Israel_Conflict?email_work_card=view-paper On 7 October 2023, Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a massive attack on Israeli territory, killing 1405 people including over 300 soldiers … Continue reading →
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Serious Shortcomings in Channel Four’s Reading of the 2019 Easter Sunday Bombings in Sri Lanka
Ranga Jayasuriya, in The Daily Mirror, 13 September 2023, where the title reads “Real victims and real danger of Channel 4’s fact-less documentary” …. with highlighting imposed by Th Editor, Thuppahi Channel 4’s latest documentary on the Easter Sunday attack … Continue reading →
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Bala reviews Upali Wickremeratne’s Book on Colonial Rule
P. Balakrishnan, reviewing Upali Wickremeratne’s Book on Colonial European Rule in Sri Lanka, in Daily Mirror, 26 March 2024, in item entitled “Sri Lanka’s European rulers doggedly retained traditional structures” In his book “The Conservative nature of the British rule … Continue reading →
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A World Coalition of Pro-Israeli Right-Wing Forces?
A Sri Lankan American Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli praised a speech given by France’s far-right National Rally president, Jordan Bardella, in which he declared a two-state solution ‘obsolete’ Israel’s Diaspora Minister praises Spain’s far-right Vox for ‘aligning with Israel’ Israeli … Continue reading →
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