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Traditional Drum Making In Sri Lanka: Beats down the Ages
David Blacker, courtesy of SERENDIB, December Issue 2016 … http://serendib.btoptions.lk/article.php?id=1914 On display (L-R) a Tabla, Hand Rabana, Bummadiya, Thammetama, and Geta Bera The hands and fingers seemed to work to an inner beat, to a pulse, only the drum-maker himself could … Continue reading →
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Asela from Adelaide explores Sri Lankan Affairs in Chats with Six Committed Lankans
Courtesy of Asela aAtukorala and his blog site …. http://aselaatukorala.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/six-sri-lankan-specialists-discuss-sri.html … where the title reads: “Six Sri Lankan Specialists Discuss Sri Lankan Issues” I travelled to Sri Lanka in May this year and had the opportunity to meet several specialists to discuss … Continue reading →
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Perinpanayagam’s Study of the LTTE Strand of Tamil Nationalism
Anushka Perinpanayagam, paperback, 2010 … The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a nationalist organisation which has been a key player in Sri Lanka’s ethnic war. Like the early Tamil nationalist groups in Sri Lanka, the LTTE professes to … Continue reading →
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Lanka walks tightrope in Indian Ocean Political-Naval Manoeuvres
Shamindra Ferdinando, in The Island, 2 August 2017, where the title is “China makes headway as Lanka walks tightrope Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) on July 22, 2017, took delivery of an Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel (AOPV) built by the Government … Continue reading →
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The Cricketing Universe of Sri Lanka: A Short History written in 2007
Michael Roberts, providing a reprint of “Landmarks and Threads in the Cricketing Universe of Sri Lanka,” Sport in Society, January 2007, vol. 10 (1): 120-42…. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17430430600989209 Cricket developed in British Ceylon [1] as a pastime indulged in by the British ruling … Continue reading →
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Legless Sapper Delivers Anzac Day Address in Canberra
Jamie Walker, courtesy of The Australian, 25 April 2017, where the title is “Tour of duty inspires hero Curtis McGrath’s Anzac honour” Curtis McGrath lost both his legs when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan in 2012, but not the … Continue reading →
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The Anti-Tamil Gal Oya Riots of 1956
Stanley J. Tambiah[1] My own first hand and indelible experience of ethnic riots happened in June 1956, when as a twenty-seven-year-old social scientist, recently returned from graduate studies in the United States, I took a team of thirty three students … Continue reading →
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Traversing Lanka: Walking Woman emulates the Bike Man
Devika Casiechetty matches up to Rob, the British Bike-Man Rob as in https://thuppahis.com/2016/03/21/a-british-bike-mans-bike-ride-in-sri-lanka/ Nushka Nafeel: “She stepped in where Angels feared to tread,” Daily News, 29 March 2017 Women today have progressed in a variety of fields and reached the pinnacle … Continue reading →
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Heed Raffaello Pantucci on Homegrown Jihadism
Greg Sheridan, in The Australian, 24 May 2017, where the title is “Manchester Terror Attack: Endless Cycle of Jihadism” … with emphasis by highlights being the intervention of The Editor, Thuppahi A crowd of mostly teenage girls, as innocent as young … Continue reading →
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Jane Russell on Sri Lankan Political History in Debate with Kumarasingham’s Readings
From London the historian and scholar Jane Russell has entered an extensive set of comments on Harshan Kumarasingham’s Heidelberg essay of 2013 –reprinted in Thuppahi in 2014. Given its length and Russell’s background (see below) it deserves wider exposure in … Continue reading →
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