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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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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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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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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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Remembering a Renaissance Man, Ediriweera Sarachchandra
Ranjini Obeyesekere Born at the cusp of the 20th century, at a moment when the cross influences of colonialism, nationalism, and Buddhist revivalism had a powerful impact on the psyche of Sri Lankan intellectuals, — generative as well as conflictual … Continue reading →
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Editorials of English-media newspapers criticise the BBS vehemently
I. Editorial in The Island, 20 June 2014 entitled “Unstoppable psychos” Prabhakaran is long dead and his mindless violence is a thing of the past. But, the country is not yet free from terrorism as has been seen from Sunday’s … Continue reading →
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War, Emotions and the European Civilizing Process. The War-Related Affects from Feudal to Industrial Warfare in an Eliasian Perspective
Helmut Kuzmics, from the University of Graz/Austria …. a paper originally presented at the Interdisciplinary Collaboratory ” Norbert Elias: Emotional Style and Historical Change,” held on 14-15 June 2011 at the University of Adelaide The Problem[1] There exists a basic consensus … Continue reading →
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Meaningful Violence: Reflections on the Dynamic of Human Sacrifice
William Harman, reprint from Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 119-35…. Note year of presentation, viz. 2000….. so that, clearly, this essay is not informed by any writings on the topic after 1999. See Addendum at end. … Continue reading →
