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Lankan Grandmothers for the Roost
Capt Elmo Jayawardena … whose preferred title for this tongue-in-cheek essay is “Rata Yana Grandmothers” Remember the bygone years! Daughters got married and became pregnant a few rounds more than the current rate. The average production line extended to a … Continue reading →
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Richard Gabriel’s Life and Work
Nilantha Perera Palihawadana Beginnings and Family: Payagala Baduge Richard Mausuetus Don Gabriel was born on February 19, 1924, to Payagala Baduge Don Gabriel and Cyriline de Costa. He was the youngest of a family of three boys. His eldest brother … 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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Empowering the Body and ‘Noble Death’
Michael Roberts and Arthur Saniotis, … reproducing the editorial introduction to a collection of essays devoted to the topic identified in the title pesented within Social Analysis, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2006, 7–24 © Berghahn Journals … with highlighting … Continue reading →
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How Anthropologists Think: Configurations of the Exotic
Bruce Kapferer, … being the Huxley Lecture: British Museum, 16 December 2011, subsequently published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 9, 8–86 ..in 2013 … [with the numerals in the publication date references subject to distortion … Continue reading →
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A Supposed Wonder Drug gets Rubbished
A Recent Email Drum-beat touted a supposed wonder drug in the treament of cancer! ….. But the Essay meets Its Match in Two Caustic Comments from Two Sri Lankan Doctor Friends ONE: Dr Colin Fernando in Adelaide, 4 November 2012 … Continue reading →
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World Travellers and Sri Lanka: Mapping, Trading, Incursions, Et Cetera
KD Paranavitana, “Then they came in search of the finest island,” in http://www.lankanisle.lk/then-they-came-in-search-of-the-finest-island/ …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Sri Lanka has long been the dream island of many travelers from the West who engaged in intrepid voyages … Continue reading →
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Socio-Political Insights from Views of the Aussie-Ceylon Match in 1938
Michael Roberts The recent entry in THUPPAHI on Lindsay Hassett has underlined certain strands within the history of Sri Lanka in the 1930s to 1950 through the background scenery displayed by the photographs deployed therein.
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Rendering Kandy into a Cosmic Force — Sri Vikrama Rajasinha
PK Balachandran, in Daily Mirror 9 September 2021, with this title “Recreating King Rajasinha’s cosmic city” Sri Lanka’s last king, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha of Kandy, was vilified as a cruel despot and was overthrown by the British in 1815, … Continue reading →
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W. Dahanayake: A Prime Minister like no other
Nihal De Alwis of Kalahe, Richmond & Nugegoda …. whose preferred title was “The World’s Poorest Prime Minister” Most Srilankans would by now have forgotten the poorest Prime Minister the World had, the late Dr W. Dahanayake! “W” was a … Continue reading →
