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“The Last Post” — Its Origins and History
A BBC News Item, 20 January 2015, entitled “The story of the Last Post” The Last Post will be played all over the world on Remembrance Day. But as Alwyn W Turner explains, its origins had nothing to do with … Continue reading →
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IRAN Now: A Crescendo of ‘Expert’ Opinions…..
ATLANTIC COUNCIL …https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/experts-react-the-us-and-israel-just-unleashed-a-major-attack-on-iran-whats-next/ He went big. On Saturday morning, US and Israeli forces unleashed Operation Epic Fury, what US President Donald Trump called “a massive and ongoing” campaign against Iran. He called on the Iranian people to overthrow the regime … Continue reading →
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Jaffna Women: Their Hidden Powers
Kenneth David ** whose article in a book edited by Susan Wadley in 1980 (see end) is entitled “Hidden Powers: Cultural and Socio-economic Accounts of Jaffna Women” The general concern of this volume is the social position of Tamil women … Continue reading →
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Facing A Tsunami & A Civil War
Dennis M. McGilvray, in an article pubd in 2006 in the India Review, vol. 5, nos. 3–4, July/October, 2006, pp. 372–393 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC …. ISSN 1473-6489 print; 1557-3036 online DOI:10.1080/14736480600939132 … one bearing this title: … Continue reading →
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Ceylonese Volunteers in the Midst of Trench Warfare Carnage – World War One
Suren Ratwatte, whose chosen title reads as “Battle of the Somme and the Trinitians at the frontlines” …. while his text has had Highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Suren Ratwatte writes about the bloodiest chapter in the history of the … Continue reading →
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Caste Issues in Sri Lanka: A Partial Bibliography
Michael Roberts I came across this undated list in my computer files — one drawn up quite sometime back, maybe 20 years back. Though I would seem to have been part of the enterprise, some spellings suggest the involvement of … Continue reading →
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Territorial Claims: First Settlers & Their Primacy
Michael Roberts, presenting an article published in 2005 as a pamphlet by the ICES, Colombo with this title “The First Settlers and Their Claim to Ownership of Terrain/State. A Comparative Excursion” … an essay originally presented in Abdul Rahman Embong, Rethinking … Continue reading →
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Religion within Tamil Militancy and the LTTE
Iselin Frydenlund, presenting her article in Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion, May 2018, …. one entitled “Tamil Militancy in Sri Lanka and the Role of Religion” …. https://sangam.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Tamil-Militancy-in-Sri-Lanka-and-the-Role-of-Religion.pdf … OR … https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Tamil-Militancy-in-Sri-Lanka-and-the-Role-of-Frydenlund/4cbf5235611dd3407dfa3a2962e6ea635ac50674 … with highlights and pictures being impositions by the … Continue reading →
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“Noble Death” ….. Empowering the Body
Arthur Saniotis & Michael Roberts: “Empowering the Body and ‘Noble Death’,” .… a reprint of an article pubd in Social Analysis, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2005, 7–24 © Berghahn Journals Facing death with equanimity and with a honed, trained … Continue reading →
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The Limits of Empiricist Reasoning in Analytical Studies of the Past
Michael Roberts …. being a presentation again of an article presented in June 2014 in the Sri Lanka Guardian with the title “Fashioning History in Sri Lanka.” …. http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2014/06/fashioning-history-in-sri-lanka.html There are several interpersonal exchanges which moulded my thinking before I … Continue reading →
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