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D H Lawrence in Kandy 1922
Jane Russell D H Lawrence came to Ceylon with his wife Frieda in late February 1922. Lawrence once referred to the later years of his life, spent wandering from place to place across the world in search of relief from … Continue reading →
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A Visitor from Deep Sea via Outer Space
A bull shark visits Queensland
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Sea Battle off Kalpitiya Coast: An Orca Pod versus A Sperm Whale Pod
Philip Hoare, in The Guardian, 29 March 2017, “An extraordinary battle between sperm whales and orcas – in pictures” While observing sperm whales off the Sri Lankan coast, Philip Hoare came face to face with eight hunting orcas who had … Continue reading →
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Kepel’s Koranic Expertise renders him a Prime Target for Assassination
Matthew Campbell, in The Times, 28 May 2017, where the title is “Islamists vow to murder academic who know Koran better than them” Gilles Kepel is waiting for a taxi on a London street corner. The roads are gridlocked, the … Continue reading →
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EFC Ludowyk: For Peradeniya and Ceylon ….. His Lasting Legacies
Tissa Jayatilleka, being a Four Part Series in the Island, March 2018, conveying the …. Text of the 18th Ludowyk Memorial Lecturer delivered by Tissa Jayatilaka, an alumnus of the University of Peradeniya and Executive Director of the US-Sri Lanka … Continue reading →
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Remembering Sir Christopher Bayly, Historian and Scholar for All Times
Richard Drayton, In search of Christopher Bayly,” keynote, for the Memorial Symposium for Sir Christopher Alan Bayly St Catharine’s College, Cambridge May 21, 2016 ‘Va, pensiero, su alli’ dorate’ – ‘Fly thought on wings of gold’, spread from a small choir … Continue reading →
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Lanka’s Sovereignty as a Lilliput amidst Several Gullivers in the World Order
Rajiva Wijesinha, in The Island, 9 November 2016, where the chosen title runs ” Ignoring the sovereignty of the Sri Lankan nation” … Highlights and colouring have been added to aid the reader. Editor, Thuppahi The contempt in leading elements … Continue reading →
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Dr. GC Mendis and the Colebrooke Cameron Papers, 1956
Dr. G. C. Mendis In the third quarter of the 20th century when I was studying history at Peradeniya Campus University of Ceylon, it was fashionable for budding historians to select political topics, such as the periods of British Governors, for … Continue reading →
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A Requiem for Stanley J. Tambiah
Sachi Sri Kantha, in Ilankai Tamil Sangam, 9 February 2014, … http://sangam.org/stanley-jeyaraja-tambiah-1929-2014/ “In 1958, while I was leading a research team composed of university undergraduates, all of whom were Sinhalese, that were engaged in a sociological study of peasant colonization in Gal Oya, … Continue reading →
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The Idea of Federalism: From Banda to Chelva to Colvin
Rajan Philips, courtesy of The Island 24 September 2016, where the title is ““SWRD Bandaranaike and the paradox of Sri Lankan federalism”… Apart from a change of ttile and an adjustment in the first sentecnce, I have inserted emphasis in … Continue reading →
