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Argentina by the Balls! In The Tight Grip of USA & IMF
Esteban Almiron: “How Argentina has been trapped in neocolonial debt for 200 years: An economic history” .… 19 December 2022, https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/18/argentina-neocolonial-debt-history/ Argentina has constantly been trapped over two centuries in unpayable external debt owed to foreign imperial powers. This affects … Continue reading →
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Aubrey Collette’s Satirical Work — An Appreciation
Neville Weeraratne, being Chapter IX in his opus, entitled “Collette’s Cullings. The satirist’s fine line” COLLETTE: Cartoon comment in the Observer following a ‘43 Group exhibition. Everybody enjoyed Aubrey Collette’s work though he would not have satisfied every political aspiration. … Continue reading →
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Nationalisms in Ceylon: Origins, Stimulants and Ingredients
Michael Roberts, … reproducing Chapter III in Volume I of Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and Nationalist Politics in Ceylon, 1929-1950, Vol I, 1977, Department of National Archives, 1977 , pp. lxviii–lxxviii ** While the political activists of the … Continue reading →
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Charting Anagarika Dharmapala’s Many Pursuits
Nandasiri Jasentuliyana, reviewing Bhadrajee S. Hewage’s book “A NAME FOR EVERY CHAPTER: Anagarika Dharmapala and Ceylonese Buddhist Revivalism” ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ – Socrates. Rarely has so much been written both in the West and in the … Continue reading →
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Shirley De Alwis: The Hand behind Peradeniya University’s Designs
KNO Dharmadasa** Shirley D’Alwis, the first University Architect, died in harness. He was working day and night to complete the job entrusted to him – the preparation of the buildings he had designed and started constructing – for the university … Continue reading →
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Obeyesekere’s Second Excursion into Images of the Kandyan Kingdom
Uditha Devapriya reviewing The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom (1591-1765) by Gananath Obeyesekere …. printed by Perera-Hussein, 2020, [200 pp., Rs. 1,200] …. with his chosen title being “All kings and all things Kandyan” Continue reading →
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Ameer Ali draws the Battlelines for the Muslims of Sri Lanka
in DailyFT, 11 September 2020, with this title “Muslim prime movers in Parliament” Muslims of Sri Lanka, after more than a millennium of integrated and peaceful coexistence, have become a hated, or to put it mildly, highly-suspected minority at … Continue reading →
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The Plantation Economy in British Ceylon: The Downtrodden Indian Tamil Labour and the Dispossessed Kandyan Peasantry
Uditha Devapriya, in SAT MAG” of The Island on September 19 and September 26, 2020. PREFACE: This essay does not present a complete history of plantation slavery, which anyway has been covered many times before by scholars of repute, including Professor Asoka … Continue reading →
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Ethnicity in Riposte during a Verbal Stoush
Michael Roberts, reproducing an article published in Comparative Studies in Society & History with this title “Ethnicity in Riposte at a Cricket Match: The Past for the Present”…. the highlighting is an intervention undertaken today in the present Some recent … Continue reading →
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FRONTLINE — Focus on Sri Lanka’s Woes
COVER STORY: Sri Lanka: The siege within …..Print edition : May 06, 2022……. [noting that the Editor was not able tomatch PHOTO and its subheading in some places] .R.K. RADHAKRISHNAN People, cutting across communities, are paying the price for the rulers’ … Continue reading →
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