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Caste in Jaffna
Prashanth Kuganathan** whose title runs thus: “Social Stratification in Jaffna: A Survey of Recent Research on Caste” A SYNOPSIS: Since 1983, war has dominated the perception of Sri Lanka. This has affected scholarship on the country, such that the subjects … Continue reading →
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Anne Frank: A Dutch Girl whom the Nazis Exterminated …. But Her Diary Lives
Bart Von Es, in The Guardian, 25 May 2019, where the title runs “Anne Frank: the real story of the girl behind the diary” Albert Gomes de Mesquita is one of the last people alive to have known Anne Frank … Continue reading →
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Awesome and Fearful: The Orca ‘Whales’
Though called “whales” ORCAs are a dolphin species — https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/o/orca/
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Three Aeroplanes. Two Crashes. One Escape via Native ‘Ingenuity’
Capt. Elmo Jayawardena The present-day sky is crowded. Airways crisscross above continents and oceans and are severely congested with all kinds of aeroplanes carrying passengers and cargo. Then someone crashes, people die, and we say “What a shame!” The manufacturers … Continue reading →
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Depths of Feeling in Indigenous Tongue: an “aththamma” and an “aththa”
Malinda Seneviratne, in Daily News, 8 May 2020, where the title is “The Story of an aththamma and an aththa” …. Dane Street. Somerville. Cambrige. Massachusetts. The United States of America. It was in the Spring of 1991. There were … Continue reading →
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Shakespeare’s “Cooking up a Past” AND Sri Lanka
Tom Shakespeare: “Çooking up a Past” in “Collection. No Small Inheritance” …. https://farmerofthoughts.co.uk/collected_pieces/cooking-up-a-past/ …. no date indicated …. but it was clearly written after the tsunami and, in my reckoning penned in late 2005. I have imposed haphazard highlighting …. and … Continue reading →
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Mahindapala on Trump and USA after Trump with Kamala Harris in the Biden Team
H. L. D. Mahindapala, in LankaWeb, November 2020, where the title reads: “Post-Trump America with Biden – not to mention Kamala Harris” …. highlighting by Editor, Thuppahi Say what you like against Donald Trump, the man was a phenomenon. Whether … Continue reading →
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Lindsay Hassett: As Unruffled as Australian
Abhishek Mukherjee, in cricketcountry.com, 27 August 2017, with this title: “Lindsay Hassett: Master of strokes, shrewd cricketing brain, terrific sense of humour” “There are others who have made more runs and taken more wickets [than Lindsay Hassett], but very few … Continue reading →
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Pablo Neruda and Thangamma … His Work in Ceylon
Dr. Kumar Gunawardane. in Island, 13 June 2020, where the title runs “Neruda and his daughter” “It’s night time , I’m alone and sad, Thinking in the light of a flickering candle, about joy and pain, about tired old age, … Continue reading →
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A Landmark Trade Pact: Rubber-Rice Deal between Sri Lanka and China 1952
Dr. J. B. Kelegama, the Keynote Address at the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrations of the historic “Rubber-Rice Pact” between Sri Lanka and China at the BMICH on 20 December 2002 … from Island, 22 December 2002, where the title runs “The … Continue reading →
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