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For Ceylon. Roman Szechowycz in Gal Oya, 1950-61
Andreas Szechowycz … detailing his father’s dedicated work in the Gal Oya Project in the 1950s and in communication with Michael Roberts in ways that mark his deep attachment to the island Group Photo – Dr. Roman Szechowycz in middle. … Continue reading →
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Learning From Misreadings of the Past in the Recent Past
Michael Roberts Happenchance helps does it Not? A chance remark on web led me to one of my books entitled FIRE AND Storm. Essays in Sri Lankan Politics …. which was published by Vijitha Yapa Publications in December 2010. This … Continue reading →
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Sport and Pastime in British Ceylon
Michael Roberts, presenting an old unpubd article drafted in the 1990s ….with highlights being Today’s insertions It is feasible to suggest that leisure activity blossomed in Europe in the course of the nineteenth century. As European society was re-ordered by … Continue reading →
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Engaging Obeyesekere’s Wide-ranging Studies of the Kandyan Kingdom
Richard Simon, reviewing … The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom by Gananath Obeyesekere & The Doomed King: A Requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinha by Gananath Obeyesekere In the deepening twilight of his career, the anthropologist and historian Gananath Obeyesekere … Continue reading →
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Territorial Claims: First Settlers & Their Primacy
Michael Roberts, presenting an article published in 2005 as a pamphlet by the ICES, Colombo with this title “The First Settlers and Their Claim to Ownership of Terrain/State. A Comparative Excursion” … an essay originally presented in Abdul Rahman Embong, Rethinking … Continue reading →
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Conflicting Readings of Sri Lanka’s Pre-Capitalist Past
Presenting a Review Essay compiled by Michael Roberts in 2010 that was presented in the SRI LANKA GUARDIAN on the 15th August 2010 … with this title: “Ethnic Identity in Sri Lanka’s Pre-Capitalist Past: Shanie, Darshanie and Roberts” When Darshanie … Continue reading →
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Facing Ranjan De Silva Foursquare: A Demolition Job
Fair Dinkum** On Saturday 16 July I received two emails from Michael Roberts which contained emails from two of his friends. The first email came from someone Michael describes as “An old schoolmate from Galle now in Canada”, while the … Continue reading →
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Jeff Thomson emphasising his KILLER Image
Jon Hotten, in The Guardian, 20 June 2013, where the title is “Reminiscing with Jeff Thomson, who tells a story the way you want to hear it” It was a few hours after David Warner had taken a swing at Joe … Continue reading →
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Rajiva Wijesinha on the Riots of July 1983
Rajiva Wijesinha, being Chapter 7, entitled “The Riots of 1983,” in his book JR Jayewardene’s Racism, Cold War Posturing and the Indian Debacle, …. pubd in 2021 by Godage & Co The initial outbreak The sixth anniversary of the … Continue reading →
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Lessons from Woolf for a Latter-Day American
Joe Kovacs, in Literary Traveller, 23 June 2005, where the title reads as “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 →
