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The Collective Consciousness of the Sinhalese During the Kandyan Era: Manichean Images, Associational Logic
Michael Roberts, being a reprint of an article with the same title in Asian Ethnicity, Volume 3, Number 1, March 2002 ABSTRACT: An analysis of the form of the dynastic state known today as the Kingdom of Kandy provides a backdrop for … Continue reading →
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Cheeky Cheetahs close in for Close-ups
David Horsey A curious Cheetah got up close and personal with a holidaymaker on safari at the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya when the animal jumped into the back seat of a jeep The wild cat, with its razor … Continue reading →
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Ethnic Tensions and Cruelties …. and the Month of July
Rajan Philips, in The Sunday Island, 24 July 2016, with the title “July and its Cruelties” It was not Sri Lanka that I was thinking of last week when I alluded to the months of April and July vying for … Continue reading →
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Leonard Woolf as An Accidental Civil Servant in Ceylon
addendum:Joe Kovacs in Literary Traveller, 23 June 2005, …. http://www.literarytraveler.com/articles/leonard_woolf_ceylon/ where the title runs “The Accidental British Servant: Leonard Woolf in Ceylon” When I joined the Peace Corps and went to Sri Lanka in 1997, I took a leave of absence … Continue reading →
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Sins And Kills: The Rajapaksa Clan And Their Messy Cupboard
Greg Bearup in The Weekend Australian, 26/27 November 2016, where the title is “Phantoms of Sri Lanka’s Reign of Terror” Mahinda Rajapaksa sits at a desk in his party office beneath a photo of himself. He’s not especially tall but … Continue reading →
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Mahinda Rajapaksa meets “The Hindu” in July 2009
I. Preamble by Michael Roberts I was in Colombo from mid-April 2009 to early June and observed the local coverage of Eelam War IV at its bitter end. I was invited by Muralidhar Reddy[i] to write articles for Frontline on … Continue reading →
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Lessons from Napoleon’s Army for Today’s Military
Fred Reed, courtesy of the unZ Review, 3 March 2016 … http://www.unz.com/freed/reviving-napoleons-army/ .. where the title is “Reviving Napoleon’s Army – “Cry havoc, and Let Slip the Frogs of Yore” It is curious how little military men know about war. … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka’s Ancient Rainforest Human Being!
The Hindu, March 2015 where the title is “Humans adapted to living in rainforests much earlier” An analysis of teeth dating back up to 20,000 years in Sri Lanka has suggested that humans adapted to living in rainforests much earlier … Continue reading →
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Beyond the Saffron Robe: Virulent Bhikkhus in Burma and Sri Lanka
Amanda Hodge, in the Weekend Australian Magazine, 5 December 2015, where the title is “Losing Their Religion” and where the web-version has the heading “Buddhist monks in Myanmar and Sri Lanka preach anti-Islam message” … and do please visit the … Continue reading →
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In appreciation of a Oriental Scholar, P. B. Sannasgala
K. N. O. Dharmadasa, in The Island, 15 June 2015 … honouring the birth centenary of a great scholar Professor PB Sannasgala (1915-1997) represented a generation of our scholars steeped in what was termed Oriental learning – Pali, Sanskrit, Sinhala and … Continue reading →
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