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Eternal Tigers. Tamil Demonstration in London on Symbolic Day
க்கிட்டான்டா சிங்களவன் | Sri lanka Independence Day | Tamilar Black Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlYRAtaZYE ALSO SEE https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/tamil-solidarity-collects-signatures-for-petition-against-sri-lankan-high-commission-officer-brigadier-fernando/ Brigadier Priyanka Fernando’s first gesture — preceding the throat cutting signal [SO it is said … below] Sujeeva Nivunhella in London reporting in Sunday Island, … Continue reading →
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The Moeraki Boulders on the Otago Coast
Johnny de Silva On a recent visit to New Zealand, while travelling to Dunedin on the Hampden/ Palmerston Road – route 1, we visited the Moeraki Boulders. A short walk down a path and steps and I was on the … Continue reading →
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An Incisive Note in Demolition of the R2P Programme of the Western Mighty
Gerald H. Peiris … A Memo prresented this December 2019 on the basis of articles on R2P presented initially in 2007. There is no difficulty about accessing the considerable volume of writings available on the R2P ‘Principle’/’Norm’.
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Pathways towards the Transformation of South Asia
SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda, in Eurasia Review, 7 September 2017, where the title is “Transforming South Asia: A Key To The Future ” Commonalities are what we have in common. In most parts of South Asia the inheritance is common, shared origins, … Continue reading →
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Anagārika Dharmapāla: In Search of a Rounded Evaluation
Michael Roberts, courtesy of The Sunday Island 16 September 2018 Recently an anonymous hand writing as “A Dharmapala Devotee” presented a sarcastic opinion piece in the Island of the 5th September targeting myself, Gananath Obeyesekere and HL Seneviratne. My immediate … Continue reading →
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Yahapaalanaya is Old Wine in a New Bottle
Veeragathy Thanabalasingham, of The Daily Express in News-in-Asia, 12 May 2018, with the title “Lanka’s Good Governance regime has turned out to be old wine in a new bottle” President Maithripala Sirisena in his speeches on two separate occasions early this … Continue reading →
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At Cricket in 1946: British India vs England
Anindya Dutta, in The Cricket Monthly, 25 June 2018, where the title reads “A dinner in 1946” It was the last tour by undivided India to Britain. It was the summer of Merchant and Mankad, and independence was around the … Continue reading →
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Colombo City in Singapore Style? Its Hinterland Trumps That Idea …. Witness: The Recent Elections
Wilfred Jayasuriya I assume that the government is using the Singapore model of economic development, which focuses on services and not on agriculture or industry. In the 1970s when economic development or development economics became the favourite subject of politics and … Continue reading →
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Utter Constitutional darkness in Sri Lanka. A Sunday Times editorial falls prey
Darshanie Ratnawalli +++ This article is in the line of interpretation within difficult terrain presented by Gerald Peiris in Thuppahi yesterday as well as Peiris’s earlier intervention on this front elsewhere. Early signs suggest that both Peiris and Ratnawalli may … Continue reading →
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Tagged as 19th Ammendment, 33(2)(C), Jayampathy Wickramaratna, problematic drafting, SL Constitutional crisis, Sunday Times
Vorsicht! Looking for a Hitler in Sri Lanka Today
Tisaranee Gunasekara, in Sunday Observer, 12 August 2018, where the title is “On Doctors and Kings. An authoritarian wind is sweeping across Sri Lanka” The current yearning for the heavy hand of a strong leader is in tune with the … Continue reading →
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