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Covid as Equalizer and Unifier: A Filipino Sage
Herman Tiu Laurel, in Phillipine News Agency, 4 March 2020,where the title runs “Covid-19 should unify the world” AS the Covid-19 virus jumps vast distances and oceans to other continents, we see how other countries are adopting lessons from China’s … Continue reading →
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The Dutch Burghers in Sri Lanka Today
Prabath De Silva, in Daily Mirror, 21 January 2021, with this title “The Dutch Burghers in Sri Lanka” “We are a vanishing tribe in Sri Lanka. The first paternal ancestor of my father’s family who arrived in Sri Lanka in … Continue reading →
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The ‘Devonshire’ reaches Queensland with 500 ‘Cingalese’ Coolies in 1882
Thiru Arumugam. courtesy of THE CEYLANKAN, vol XXI: 4, November 2019, where the title is “How 500 Ceylonese arrived in Queensland in 1882 in the s.s. Devonshire to work in the cane fields” In 1882 about 500 Ceylonese were recruited … Continue reading →
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Keeping Covid at Bay: Sri Lanka’s Work ….1st January to May
Dr Palitha Kohona, in IndepthNews, .…… with this heading “Sri Lanka Has Been Successful in Countering COVID-19” Sri Lanka has been successful so far, compared to most countries in the world, in the fight against Covid-19. The mind-numbing figures of … Continue reading →
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Coronavirus: A Chinese Hand praises the China ‘Hand’
Ji Si, in China.ORG, 12 March 2020,http://”http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2020-03/12/content_75805339.htm with this title Facing up to the test of our times””” The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with Xi Jinping at its core, has led the nation in fighting a … Continue reading →
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LH Mettananda assessed by DB Dhanapala in 1962
DB Dhanapala on LH Mettananda in his book Among those Present, 1962 OF COURSE, L.H. Mettananda is a fanatic. Anybody who dares to talk of Buddhist’s rights in a Buddhist country is bound to be called a fanatic bent on … Continue reading →
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Dutch Burghers and Portuguese Mechanics: Eurasian Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Dennis B. McGilvray, reproducing an essay presented in April 1982 within Comparative Studies in Society and History 24 (2): 235-263 –– an article that is wide-ranging and draws on ethnographic work as well as historical manuscripts. Note that the highlighting … Continue reading →
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Justice decimated with Gota’s Ominous Step: Military Murderer Rathnayake pardoned
ONE: Ambika Satkunanathan: “Presidential Pardon emphasizes the State’s Privileges and the Denial of Justice Lawyer, human rights advocate and former Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, Ambika Satkunanathan, questioned the basis for the presidential pardon of Sunil Rathnayake and … Continue reading →
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Pushing the British out of Ceylon, 1918-1956: Issues
Michael Roberts My essay on “The Basis of British Power” (July 2020) was instigated by articles from Prabath de Silva and Leelananda de Silva on aspects of the Donoughmore Reforms and subsequent developments. Vinod Moonesinghe has seized on secondary dimensions … Continue reading →
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Sri Lankan Expressiveness: Warm Gratitude and Vicious Vituperation
Michael Roberts I did not see the article that highlighted the manner in which the Tamil people of Vishvamadu feted and lamented the departure of the Sinhalese Military Commander of that arena, Ratnapriya Bandu, when it was originally placed in … Continue reading →
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