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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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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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Gananath Obeyesekere reviews John Holt’s new Reader
Gananath Obeyesekere, Courtesy of the Economic and Political Weekly, January 28, 2012 vol xlvii no 4 This massive, ambitious project by a distinguished historian of religion contains a series of essays that span a long time period from Sri Lanka’s … Continue reading →
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Filed under cultural transmission, democratic measures, Eelam, historical interpretation, Indian Ocean politics, island economy, life stories, LTTE, politIcal discourse, power politics, reconciliation, religious nationalism, Sinhala-Tamil Relations, sri lankan society, terrorism, world events & processes
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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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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A Missing Person in Sri Lanka: Heartfelt Issues & Ground Realities
Michael Roberts, Courtesy of Groundviews, where it appeared on Wednesday last When I was in Sri Lanka from mid-April to early June 2009 I was on holiday with my wife and not able to pursue investigations in any depth. In … Continue reading →
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Filed under accountability, citizen journalism, ethnicity, governance, historical interpretation, life stories, LTTE, mass conscription, politIcal discourse, power politics, propaganda, Rajapaksa regime, reconciliation, Sinhala-Tamil Relations, sri lankan society, truth as casualty of war, world affairs
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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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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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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What is missing in those “Missing”? Issues relating to the statistics on enforced disappearances in Lanka
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Groundviews, 27 mAY 2012, where a slightly different title was deployed…… See ADDENDUM at end Pic from Sunday Observer, 17 May 2009 IRIN has recently highlighted the fact that “thousands of people are still missing” in … Continue reading →
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