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An Exploration: Discerning How a Sinhalayā in Kandyan Times BECAME Sinhala
Michael Roberts, reproducing here an old draft that is entitled “Becoming Sinhala” *** Preamble The scene is somewhere early in 1984 and the location is the building housing the Social Scientists’ Association on the road to Nawala off Narahenpitiya in … Continue reading →
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The Bharathas of Sri Lanka: Roots and Tales
Jeremy De Lima, in The Ceylankan Number 1 of February 2020, Journal 89 Volume XXIII…… Bhāratha’s, பரதர், භාරත United Nations Map – (Common source material) India and Sri Lanka are geographically very near, but yet so far in culture, civilisation … Continue reading →
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Robert Pape’s Blunders in Tigerland: Pape’s Muddles on ‘Suicide Bombers’ in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts, reprinting here an article which appeared initially in November 2007 as Working Paper No. 32 November 2007 in the Heidelberg Papers on South Asian Politics … ISSN: 1617-5069 …. edited by Subrata Mitra. Insofar as this essay is … Continue reading →
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Edmund Leach: Biographical Studies from Tambiah and Others
Adam Kuper in London Review of Books Vol. 24 No. 10 · 23 May 2002 Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life by Stanley Tambiah Cambridge, 517 pp, £60.00, February 2002, ISBN 0 521 52102 5 The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. I: Anthropology and Society by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw Yale, 406 pp, £30.00, … Continue reading →
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Michel Nugawela’s Brand Strategy via the Pathways of Outstanding Innovators
STAGE TWO IN 2019: “ANAMCHARA” at the HILTON, 19 August 2019
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Unusual Tales From Hampshire and Anuradhapura: Where Colour does not bar Popular Vote
Prabhath de Silva, in The Island, 25 June 2020, where the title reads “Lessons from Ranil Jayawardene and Herbert Freeman” Mr. Ranil Jayawardene is Britain’s new Trade Minister. He is only 35 years old. His father is a Sinhalese who … Continue reading →
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Bewildering Facts and Gaps: The Lahore Assault on the Cricket Entourage in March 2009
Michael Roberts The perpetrators of the attack on the cricket entourage heading for Gaddafi Stadium on 3rd March 2009 have never been identified in a sure-fire manner. Nor have any Pakistani analysts clarified the motivations and politics behind this horrendous … Continue reading →
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Baghdadi Assassination will spur ISIS Reinvention
David Kilcullen, in The Australian, 29 October 2019, where the title is “ISIS on a road to revenge after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death” The death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a symbolic blow to the organisation he … Continue reading →
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Afghanistan Cricket Team does a War-Ravaged Country Proud. Hurrah!
F. S. Aijasuddin, in Dawn, July 2019 If there is any country in the world that is entitled to adopt the phoenix as its national symbol, it is Afghanistan. Consider. It has suffered a history of gratuitous devastation, ever since … Continue reading →
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Sharpening Politico-Religious Divisions in Sri Lanka
Dear Rohan, Your thoughtful note has provoked this set of comments — comments that range far and wide. I will. of course, welcome your reactions and hope that others will chip in with both comments and data. Michael One: Note … Continue reading →
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