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From Banda to Gota
Laleen Jayamanne, in The Island, 20 & 27 July 2022 where the title runs thus: “Teargas cinema and Rukmani Devi” “I have never found anything to excite the people in quite the way this language issue does”–– Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike … Continue reading →
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Remarkable Voting Results in Sri Lanka … Especially in the North and East
Chandre Dharmawardana, in an article entitled “Tamil speaking voters decisively reject vengeance-peddling Genocide-Claiming parties in Sri Lanka’s elections,” –which will presumably appear in digital or print form somewhere Sri Lanka, a nation troubled by decades of civil strife and a … Continue reading →
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Appreciating Sunil De Silva: Urbane Master of Many Trades
Hugh Karunanayake, in an Obituary Appreciation in THE CEYLANKAN, Vol XXIV/2, May 2021 ** My acquaintance with Sunil De Silva was mainly after he migrated to Australia in the early 1990s when I encountered him at a Sri Lanka Association … Continue reading →
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Swinging Christmas in Olde Ceylon
Roel Raymond, in The Roar, 31, December 2017, where the title runs thus: “Christmas In Ceylon In The ’50’s: Swing Bands And Grand Galas” History records social transformation. It is through the lens of historical narrative that we see the … Continue reading →
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The Lord of Cricketing Gods in India: MS Dhoni
Karthik Krishnaswamy in The Cricket Monthly, 24 July 2023 , where the title reads “MS Dhoni joined the pantheon of mythical Tamil heroes” Superstars in Chennai emerge from cinema or politics or both. Then came along a cricketer from Ranchi … Continue reading →
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Robert Knox’s Journeys in Ceylon and the World in the 17th Century: One
Thiru Arumugam, in The Ceylankan, vol 25/1, February 2022 , where the title reads thus “A three-hundred-and-forty-year-old book about Ceylon – Part 1″ There exists a three hundred-and-forty-year old book about Ceylon which was published in 1681. Although there are … Continue reading →
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Australia’s Policy towards Sri Lankan Refugee Migrants after the Civil War
Judith Betts & Claire Higgins: “The Sri Lankan Civil War and Australia’s Migration Policy Response: A Historical Case Study with Contemporary Implications” …. an article pubd on 16th May 2017 …. see https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.181 ** Abstract: Sri Lanka’s civil war lasted almost 26 … Continue reading →
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The Assassination of SWRD Bandaranaike: Questions directed at the Supreme Court’s Verdict
Sanjiva Senanayake, whose chosen title reads “Beyond Reasonable Doubt? The Killing of a Prime Minister” Many people ‘know’ the conventional tale about the assassination of the Prime Minister of Ceylon, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, 62 years ago. However, they each have a … Continue reading →
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Ceylonese in the Indian Independence League in Malaysia during World War II
Kumar Kirinde, drawing largely on work by PK Balachandran, in ana rticle he has titled as “fighting for Freedom from the British in the 1940s: …,” Introduction: When the Japanese occupied Malaya and Singapore in 1942, a large number of … Continue reading →
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Fashioning History in Sri Lanka: Controversies
Michael Roberts Abstract of the article below: Two arrival stories in the long span of the island’s history will provide the foundations for reflections on history-making in the modern era. Episode One will pursue my own intellectual trail in the … Continue reading →
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