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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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September 13, 2012 · 3:54 am

An American Analyst surveys the Sri Lankan Scene

Sam Baker, in The Asia Sentinel, where the title reads “Sri Lanka rejoining the World” The place isn’t a paradise for minorities but the economy is recovering— The government of Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka has probably botched its dealings … Continue reading →

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October 31, 2012 · 1:38 pm

The Undisputed World Champions Of Communalism

Faraz Shauketaly, in The Sunday Leader, 29 October 2012 Sri Lanka has always fascinated me. Well it should. Born in what is now  the Kegalle district, the tiny hamlet is I think somewhat unique: about 25% of its residents work … Continue reading →

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February 20, 2012 · 7:18 am

Vile and Bile on Web Sites

Padraig Colman, courtesy of The Nation, where a different title was deployed … SEE http://www.nation.lk/edition/feature-issues/item/2888-curse-of-the-conflict-junkies.html Throughout Sri Lanka, many heart-strings will have been tugged; many a tear will have welled in many an eye, at the pictures of the wedding … Continue reading →

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September 4, 2011 · 3:20 pm

Pirapaharan: The Man who destroyed Thamililam

Shyam Tekwani, courtesy of TEHELKA Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 20,  May 23, 2009 Prabakaran had everything: territory, international support and committed fighters. Senior journalist SHYAM TEKWANI, who has covered the LTTE and Sri Lanka for almost three decades tracks the … Continue reading →

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September 12, 2011 · 1:42 am

A Verbal Joust between a Tamil Nationalist and a Thuppahi Mongrel

Michael Roberts Early in September I circulated an item describing efforts mounted by private enterprise in cooperation with the Sri Lankan state (military as well as government agents) to alleviate the life world of Tamil people being re-settled in the … Continue reading →

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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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November 7, 2011 · 11:32 pm

Education and its (dis)contents:a critique of state policy on education and a call to action

Sivamohan Sumathy, from The Island, 2 November 2011 “Education is not an undertaking of A about B; it is not an undertaking of A for/on behalf of B; it is an undertaking of A and B together.”This is a paraphrase … 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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December 24, 2011 · 11:46 pm

Tamil Tigress presented in two puzzling forms in 2009 and 2011

Michael Roberts, courtesy of http://www.groundviews.org, under a different title, where you will see a throbbing set of comments of varying degrees of silliness and pertinence, one I have refrained from participating in [I dislike pseudonyms and nom de plume as a matter … Continue reading →

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