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Is there a Chinese Dragon Looming over Sri Lanka ?
Michael Safi in Hambantota and Amantha Perera, in The Guardian, 26 March 2018, with this title “The biggest game changer in 100 years’: Chinese money gushes into Sri Lanka,” … with highlights being the imposition of The Editor, Thuppahi Little disturbs the serenity … Continue reading →
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Facing Foursquare: Lalith Weeratunga in Q and A with Daily Mirror
Ranjith Ananda Jayasinghe, in Daily Mirror, 25 July 2018http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/I-never-took-orders-from-members-of-the-Rajapaksa-family-153131.html, where the title is “I never took orders from members of the Rajapaksa family” Secretary to the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Lalith Weerathunga, in an interview with our sister paper Deshaya … Continue reading →
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The Role of Religion in Tamil Militancy in Sri Lanka
Iselin Frydenlund, ….. which reached me via the University of Adelaide circuit and where the title is “Tamil Militancy in Sri Lanka and the Role of Religion”. It is presented here against the wishes of the author, with a change … Continue reading →
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The House of Lords Debate on Sri Lanka and the UNHCR resolution
FROM An Eye in the Ceiling: “Sri Lanka’s UNHRC Resolution” Lord Naseby To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the resignation of the government of the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council where they co-sponsored with the United … Continue reading →
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Hambantota Port Deal from Many Angles
PTI Item: “Sri Lanka, China sign USD 1.1 bn Hambantota port deal” Jul 29, 2017 Sri Lanka today signed a USD 1.1 billion deal with China to sell a 70-per cent stake in the strategic Hambantota port to a state-run Chinese firm, … Continue reading →
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SL Government caves in to British Bullying: Brigadier Priyanka OUT… LTTE Flags Fly High
Rajeewa Jayaweera, in Sunday Island, 4 March 2019 …. with highlighting emphasis inserted by The Editor, Thuppahi A relatively minor episode which took place outside the High Commission of Sri Lanka in London on February 04, blown out of proportion, … Continue reading →
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Revelations: Oppression of the Dalits in India via A Family History
Tariq Ali’s essay entitled THE UNSEEABLES in the London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 16 · 30 August 2018 …. reviewing Ants among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla Daunt, 341 pp, £14.99, May, ISBN 978 1 911547 20 4 This … Continue reading →
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The History of Caste in South Asia via a Work on the Rise of the Karava in Ceylon
Susan Bayly in 1983, reviewing Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931 by Michael Roberts Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1982. The literature on the south Asian caste system is vast and contentious … Continue reading →
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Pioneering Cricketing Women in Ceylon, 1948
The Ceylon and England Women’s teams pictured together at the Colombo Oval on 1 November 1948 — image from Roberts, Essaying Cricket, 2006, … with refinements by Lukie Pereira [who, as it happens, was present and saw his cousin Beverley … Continue reading →
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Quaint By-Ways and Nature’s Ways in Colombo in the 1940s
Hugh Karunanayake, courtesy of THE CEYLANKAN, vol XXI/1, January 2018 where the title is “A Naturalist’s Paradise–Colombo in the 1940s” Padda boats along the Negombo Canal Growing up in mid twentieth century Colombo was a fascinating experience to any young … Continue reading →
