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October 15, 2011 · 12:29 pm

Susan Kurozawa’s Magnificent Seven tourist havens

Susan Kurozawa, in The Weekend Australian Magazine, 15-16 October 2011 In our big,  broad contemporary world of travel, taste and opportunity are everything. One person’s campground is another’s castle, one’s lofty art gallery is another’s high adventure. No list of wonders … Continue reading →

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May 18, 2013 · 3:40 pm

Pragmatic Action & Enchanted Worlds: A Black Tiger Rite of Commemoration

Michael Roberts,   … a reprint of an article in Social Analysis,  Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2006, 73–102. ** The de facto LTTE state in Sri Lanka has established a number of calendrical rituals to honour and remember its fallen heroes … Continue reading →

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August 17, 2013 · 4:47 am

Meeting Michelle de Kretser and her QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, 2012

Susan Wyndham, in Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2012 … “The Interview: Michelle de Kretser”  Pic by Steven Stewart Michelle de Kretser has made two geographical leaps in her life: at 14, with her family from Sri Lanka to Australia, … Continue reading →

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December 27, 2013 · 3:06 am

The “fog of war” envelopes the last phase of Eelam War IV

Michael Roberts and Padraig Colman … in what is a summary of the former’s “BBC Blind” — courtesy of Transconflict and Colombo Telegraph. Readers are advised to visit the Colombo Telegraph version for illuminating evidence of rabid extremism and name-calling from Tamils … Continue reading →

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December 30, 2013 · 1:48 pm

Witnesses to “the War without Witnesses” … Voiceless? Buried Foreign Reporters?

Michael Roberts, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, where there will be interesting blog-commentary I commence here with the whole lot of close-up images snapped by Kanchan Prasad of Prasar Bharati at the Last Redoubt in mid-May and passed on to me … Continue reading →

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January 9, 2011 · 12:08 am

Marginalisation in Britain and Cricketing Fervour/Islamic Fervour

 Michael Roberts  This article was initially drafted in May 2003, repeat 2003. In April 2004 I embellished the draft (a) after pursuing a little more reading about the Rastafarian movement because the previous review in this area was cursory and … Continue reading →

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May 12, 2011 · 8:11 am

Reading the geography of Sri Lankan island-ness: colonial repetitions, postcolonial possibilities

Tariq Jaleel Reprint from Contemporary South Asia, 17: 399-444 courtesy of Informaworld, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a917049547&fulltext=713240928 Abstract This article focuses on the cultural dimensions of Sri Lanka’s island geography. In particular it argues the importance of regarding the geography of Sri Lankan island-ness … Continue reading →

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May 25, 2011 · 8:45 am

KP’s evidence: UN tried “to help Tamil Tigers flee”

Courtesy of AFP, 24 May 2011, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2xc9xmw2A–M-HtXo5V7TGEGjkw?docId=CNG.bff3a61b54b0cfb8836bd8ec4e35c6f1.6e1  This aerial image taken by a Times mediaman travelling with Ban-ki moon’s helicopter on 23 May 2009 shows the Nandikadal coast which served as the last redoubt of the LTTE (including the wreck of a … Continue reading →

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June 10, 2011 · 3:03 am

Reading “devastation”: Botham, CMJ, Ban Ki-Moon

Michael Roberts, 10 June 2011 Preamble: The seeds of this essay lodged in my mind in early March 2009 when still in Lanka after an email exchange with CMJ; but I was too busy to develop the idea till May. … Continue reading →

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July 15, 2011 · 1:41 pm

Sanga and Sangfroid

Eymard de Silva Wijeyeratne, in the Island, 14 July 2011 “And, indeed, our intellectual as well as our ethical education is corrupt. It is perverted by the admiration of brilliance, of the way things are said, which takes the place … Continue reading →

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