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Vale: Professor ND Samarawickreme moves to Samsara
Piyasiri Wickremasekera & Chandrasena Maliyadde with substantive inputs from Sachithra Samarawickreme The sudden departure of Professor Navaratna Dissanayake Samarawickreme – our Peradeniya batchmate and close friend popularly known as ‘Samare’ – has caused us great shock and profound grief. He was hale … Continue reading →
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Richard Gabriel’s Life and Work
Nilantha Perera Palihawadana Beginnings and Family: Payagala Baduge Richard Mausuetus Don Gabriel was born on February 19, 1924, to Payagala Baduge Don Gabriel and Cyriline de Costa. He was the youngest of a family of three boys. His eldest brother … Continue reading →
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Sinhala Nationalism
Rajesh Venugopal, … presenting here the second chapter in his book Nationalism, Development and the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Cambridge University Press, 2018,…. 78-1-108-42879 8 hdback Sinhala nationalism is the dominant form of political consciousness in contemporary Sri Lanka. As … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Wildcats: In the Depths of the Jungle
Uditha Devapriya, in The Island, 18 December 2021, …. Review of Phantoms of the Night: Wildcats of Sri Lanka, by Thilak Jayaratne, Janaka Gallangoda, Nadika Hapuarachchi, and Madura de Silva ….. Chaya Publishers, 2022,… 160 pp…. with highlighting imposed by the … Continue reading →
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Reviewing the Past with KP …. Pirapaharan’s Best Man & Organisational Genius
Sri Lanka Guardian interview with KP, 4 June 2021, where the title runs thus “Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP speaks after years of silence” The story of a man who transformed his life to shelter and educate hundreds of kids affected … Continue reading →
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The Making of Wahhabi Zealots in Sri Lanka, 1980s-2019
Michael Roberts All those addressing the fervour that promoted the killing work of the Zahran Hashim jihadist network in Sri Lanka in April 2019 must come to grips with the modern currents of Wahhabi political thinking that go back to … Continue reading →
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UNHRC slams Britain as well as Sri Lanka
PK Balachandran, in Daily Mirror, 14 September 2021, where the title runs “Its-not-only-Sri-Lanka-which-gets-the-rap-at-UNHRC Many Sri Lankans grumble that their small and powerless country is singled out for trenchant criticism at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) while bigger and more … Continue reading →
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Leonard Woolf: Innocent Imperialist turned Pragmatic Internationalist
Jane Russell Leonard Woolf & Arthur C Clarke Foreword: “When I’m in the Strand or 42nd Street, or at NASA Headquarters or the Beverley Hills Hotel, my surroundings are liable to give a sudden tremor and I see through the … Continue reading →
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Buddhist Revitalization in Sri Lanka in the Early Twentieth Century: Some Thoughts
Uditha Devapriya, in The Island 12th & 19th August in two parts, with this title “Early 20th Century Buddhist Revival” …. https://ceylontoday.lk/news/a-short-note-part-1-early-20th-century-buddhist-revival AND https://ceylontoday.lk/news/a-short-note-part-2-early-20th-century-buddhist-revival The colonial bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka did not form a monolithic class. They were divided horizontally … Continue reading →
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Pyrrhic Defeat: Seven Days which shattered the Great Game of Smashing Afghanistan
Jolly Somasundaram “Truth is like the Sun, one can shut it off for sometime, but it will not go away.” …. Elvis Presley Afghanistan has done it again! A country, where her geography was her destiny, made her … Continue reading →
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