Search Results for: wild-west

July 16, 2026 · 1:41 am

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 →

Leave a comment

Filed under Uncategorized

October 29, 2023 · 12:31 am

Savouring Sri Lanka Today, 2023: A Glorious Ride

Paddy Hintz in The Weekend Australian, 25 October 2023, bearing this title “Jungles, curries and wild elephants: why Sri Lanka is a ride” We’re just in time to climb into Kandalama’s beautiful infinity pool and be” mesmerised by fireflies as monkeys … Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Filed under ancient civilisations, architects & architecture, elephant tales, landscape wondrous, life stories, photography, sri lankan society, tourism, world events & processes

August 17, 2026 · 11:59 pm

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 →

3 Comments

Filed under Uncategorized

February 5, 2026 · 2:51 pm

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 →

2 Comments

Filed under Uncategorized

June 22, 2025 · 7:02 am

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 →

Leave a comment

Filed under Aboriginality, ancient civilisations, animal world, British colonialism, centre-periphery relations, communal relations, cultural transmission, discrimination, economic processes, ethnicity, governance, heritage, historical interpretation, intricate artefacts, island economy, land policies, landscape wondrous, life stories, politIcal discourse, racism, religiosity, self-reflexivity, social justice, sri lankan society, tolerance, travelogue, unusual people, world events & processes

June 11, 2024 · 1:26 am

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 →

Leave a comment

Filed under accountability, ancient civilisations, authoritarian regimes, British imperialism, centre-periphery relations, cultural transmission, Dutch colonialism, ethnicity, heritage, historical interpretation, Indian traditions, island economy, Kandyan kingdom, landscape wondrous, life stories, patriotism, politIcal discourse, power politics, Sinhala-Tamil Relations, sri lankan society, the imaginary and the real

July 18, 2022 · 2:35 am

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 →

5 Comments

Filed under accountability, american imperialism, authoritarian regimes, centre-periphery relations, China and Chinese influences, debt restructuring, economic processes, foreign policy, governance, historical interpretation, Indian Ocean politics, island economy, landscape wondrous, life stories, modernity & modernization, nationalism, politIcal discourse, power politics, self-reflexivity, sri lankan society, the imaginary and the real, transport and communications, trauma, truth as casualty of war, unusual people, welfare & philanthophy, world events & processes

March 23, 2022 · 9:34 am

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 →

1 Comment

Filed under atrocities, Australian culture, cricket for amity, doctoring evidence, heritage, landscape wondrous, life stories, performance, psychological urges, self-reflexivity, taking the piss, terrorism, the imaginary and the real, trauma, truth as casualty of war, unusual people, world events & processes

July 24, 2022 · 1:21 am

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 →

1 Comment

Filed under Uncategorized

June 4, 2022 · 7:28 pm

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 →

2 Comments

Filed under accountability, authoritarian regimes, British imperialism, cultural transmission, ethnicity, heritage, historical interpretation, landscape wondrous, life stories, literary achievements, meditations, politIcal discourse, self-reflexivity, sri lankan society, travelogue, unusual people