Politics of Identity in Lanka: Mithran Tiruchelvam’s Introduction in 1997 to...
Introduction by Mithran Tiruchelvam …. a son of Neelan Tiruchelvam of the ICES [who was tragically assassinated by the LTTE in front of the ICES offices one year later] The present collection of essays...
View ArticleGamini Seneviratne’s Critical Readings of the Sri Lankan Scenario
Gamini Seneviratne, in The Island, 23 December 2024, where the title runs “What AKD and NPP should bear in mind” … reproduced here with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi This is to thank you...
View ArticleVictor Ivan, RIP: …. The Wikipedia Memo on Victor
Michael Roberts, I got to know Victor at a convivial session at Ananda Chittambalam’s house in Bambalapitiya in 1989. Our common interests in the island’s history and its tempestuous present meant...
View ArticleRIP Victor Ivan: JVP, Reporter, Stirrer …..
Rajpal Abeynayake, in The Daily News, 20 January 2025 This week marked the passing of a public figure who was controversial by any measure, and the forgettable passing of another that most Sri Lankans...
View ArticleIn Apprecation of Professor H.A. de S. Gunasekera
Sumanasiri Liyanage, … His Prologue to An Academic Appreciation of Professor HA De S Gunasekera Prologue …. Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Head, Department of...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s Precarious Political Economy ….. Yesterday & Today
Mick Moore, whose chosen title is “It’s the Party, Stupid: Sri Lanka’s Political Turnaround – Part 1” ….. while the highlighting in this version with a different title has been imposed by The Editor,...
View ArticleVale: In Appreciation of Dr. Sisira Jayasuriya, A Committed Scholar
Sarath Rajapatirana & Premachandra Athukorala, whose appraisal is entitled “In Memoriam: Sisira Jayasuriya, 1946-2025″ The distinguished economist Professor Sisira Kumara Jayasuriya, Sri...
View ArticleBiographical Inspirations in Life: Examples within This Site
An EDITORIAL NOTE, 27 February 2025 Items within this site have drawn over 780 hits each day of this week, ranging from 986 on Wednesday 26th February to 000 on the Monday 24th…… A fair sprinkling of...
View ArticleMisunderstanding Manorani Saravanamuttu’s Character in Film
A Critical Review of the Film “RANI” which is entitled “Did Rani Miss Manorani?” with the sub-title “A film that avoids the “Mannerism” of a Biopic” by Rani Bhagya Rajapakshe …. “This is only how...
View ArticleA Searching Dissection of Ranil Wickremasinghe’s Political Career & Its Times
Avishka Mario Senewiratne, reviewing the book by Rajiva Wijesinghe that assesses Ranil Wickremasinghe’s recent political career Last December, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha released a new book titled Ranil...
View ArticleA Depressing Assessment of Sri Lanka’s Predicament About Six Years Back
THIS is an old essay that stayed buried in the Thuppahi system. It neverthless provides food for thought and serves as a testimony to its author (a brother of my friend the late Neville Jayaweera)....
View ArticleBradman’s Momentous Task in Amparai in 1971: Facing the JVP Insurrection
An Extract from Bradman Weerakoon’s MEMOIRS presented in The Island, 9 March 2025 under this title “The JVP insurrection of 1971 as I saw it as GA Ampara” In April 1971, there occurred the JVP...
View ArticleThe Dirty Strands Within Sri Lanka’s Ruling Order Over Recent Years
ACL Ameer Ali, in Colombo Telegraph, March 2025, where the title reads thus: “Has AKD Disturbed A Hornet Nest? The disappearance of Inspector General of Police Deshabandu Tennekoon and Sewwandi the...
View ArticleAn Epitaph for Gananath Obeyesekera
Chandra R. De Silva, … with highlighting emphasis added by The Editor, Thuppahi I write to add a few words to the outpouring of appreciations of Gananath Obeysekere, a scholar whose research in...
View ArticleNationalisms in Sri Lanka: A Bibliography Cast in 2014..
bull-mascot-team-logo-design-longhorn-133746227 Presented here at ……………………………………………………….. https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/nationalism-the-past-and-the-present-the-case-of-sri-lanka/…. &...
View ArticleReflections on Gananath’s Wide-Ranging Corpus of Work
Professor M.W. Amarasiri de Silva, about 3/4 years back in … … where the full title of the essay reads thus: “Sinhalese Society Through The Prism Of Religion: An Appreciation Of Gananath Obeyesekere’s...
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