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The Rajapaksa Reshaping of the Sri Lankan Polity
Asanga Welikala and Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne, in Groundviews, 25 August 2020, with this title “The Past and the Present in the (Re)Constitution of the State” … The election of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in November 2019 marked the beginning of a … Continue reading →
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Gamini Goonesena: Leading Cambridge to Victory in 1957
Rohan Wijeyaratna, in Island, 13 June 2020, where the title reads “Goonesena’s Match” Among the hordes of inconsequential trivia received via WhatsApp during the lockdown days, a picture of the 1957 Cambridge team caught my eye. There was Gamini Goonesena … Continue reading →
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Today’s HR Drumbeats vs GSL: Some Critical Responses
Challenges to Recent HR Allegations from Amanda Hodge and Others A recent criticism by Amanda Hodge in The Australian is one mark of the vociferous claims that human rights activists are under threat in Sri Lanka today under the new … Continue reading →
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Essays on Sinhala Buddhist Extremism towards the Muslims in Sri Lanka
Iselin Frydenlund** presenting a review article in the Journal of Religion and Violence, Vol. 6, No. 2, 201830 … reviewing Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka. Edited by John Clifford Holt. Oxford University Press, 2016. … Continue reading →
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Historical Revaluations: The Boundary Books of the Matale District
Gananath Obeyesekere: Historical Revaluations: the Boundary Books of the Matale district[1], being Chapter 19 in Professor KD Paranavitana Felicitation Volume, edited by Vinie Vitharana & Prasad Fonseka, Colombo, Godage & Bros (pvt ltd) …. ISBN 978-955-30-9035-5 Professor K. D. Paranavitana … Continue reading →
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The Tamil Buddhists of the Anuradhapura Civilization
J.L. Devananda on Sunil Ariyaratne and His Thesis on the Tamil Buddhists of Ancient Sri Lanka …. with this title “The Tamil Buddhists of the Past and the Future”.….. in Sri Lanka Guardian, 10 October 2010 at ……………… …… https://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=43,9583,0,0,1,0#.XO2iAhbASUk … Continue reading →
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Political Crisis and Ethnic Conflicts in Sri Lanka: A Rejoinder to Michael Roberts
K. M. de Silva, being an article published in the Ethnic Studies Report, Vol. 6/1, January 1988 …. a riposte to a Review of his book Managing Ethnic Tensions in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Sri Lanka, 1880-1985, (1985) … Continue reading →
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The AUSTRALIAN ‘Umpire’ bats for Sajith and depicts Gota as Anti-Democratic Ogre
Amanda Hodge in The Weekend Australian, 16 November 2019, where the title runs “Sri Lanka election dilemma: democracy or the dread of dynasty” Ahead of Sri Lanka’s polarising presidential elections on Saturday, an editorial tinged with desperation in the Sunday … Continue reading →
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Tamil Tiger ‘Martyrs’: Regenerating Divine Potency?
This article from my pen was probably drafted in 2004. It appeared in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism vol. 28 in 2005 after the usual refereeing process. Some of the details and arguments have, in fact, been obliterated within my … Continue reading →
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The Democratization Process in Ceylon, 1832-1948
Michael Roberts: “The Democratization Process in Sri Lanka,” being the text of an Illustrated Lecture on Video presented to The May 18 Memorial Foundation in Korea in early September 2020 …. as part of a series encompassing several countries — … Continue reading →
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