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Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka and Sinhalese Perspectives: Barriers to...
Michael Roberts …. reprinting an article drafted in Heidelberg in 1976 and published in the MODERN ASIAN STUDIES in 1978 … with the pessimistic forecast in its concluding paragraphs being informed by...
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Politics without Principle in Sri Lanka, 1948-1992
John Richardson. reproducing a chapter in Arun Gandhi, Ed., W orld Without Violence (1993) which is entitled “The Seventh Blunder: Politics without Principle. Lessons from Sri Lanka” ++ FR Jayasuriya...
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Young Tamara Kunanayakam in Central Europe, 1970s-to-1980s
Michael Roberts With Tamara Kunanayakam what you see and hear is what you get: no subterfuges, straight-talking without frills or obscurantisms. Seeking to explore the events in Geneva from 2011 when...
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Sri Lanka’s Political Story from 1948-2018 in a Slash-and-Burn Nutshell
Qadri Ismail, in Groundviews, 3 November 2018, where the title is “WHAT, to the minority, is democracy?” ….with emphasis insertedby the Editor, Thuppahi Maithripala Sirisena violates the constitution,...
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Populist Musings from Kusal Perera invokes a Pox on all the Parties
Kusal Perera, in Daily Mirror, 16 November 2018, where the title is “Geopolitics of resolving conflict with a redundant Constitution” The SC decision has pushed Rajapaksa into back foot defence on a...
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Fake News from the BBC
Nupur J. Sharma, in Independent, 15 November 2018 where the title is “The BBC research on ‘fake news’ is shoddy, unethical, dishonest, and actually an example of fake news” The British Broadcasting...
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An Ode in the Face of The Terrorist Liberation-Fighter
Jane Russell “[This poem was presented] a small pamphlet called “Ganga” published in Colombo in 1978: it was aimed at the boasting men of violence everywhere – the Warriors of Terror whom in the...
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Rivetting Data on the Jaffna Peninsula and Tamil Politics, 1929-1970s
Handy Perinbanayagam This is a reproduction of COMMENTS in a previous Thuppahi Item from 2012 — which presented an article by Rajan Philips in the Sunday Island of 26 February 2012. This unusual...
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Hatreds. Chasms. Bill Deutrom’s Insights on the Political Impasse in Sri Lanka
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, 15 December 2018, where the title is different pro-UNP rally Email Note from Bill Deutrom in Lanka to Michael Roberts, 8 Dec 2018 Thank you, Michael...
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Jayadeva UJyangoda’s Lament from the Heart in November 2018
Editor, Thuppahi: This passionate public statement in early November is a cry from the heart which conveys important historical details. Readers familiar with all the circumstances will be able to...
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Re-positioning Uyangoda et al in the 21st Century Political Dispensation
Vinod Moonesinghe … with highlighting being impositions of The Editor, Thuppahi, whose “NOTE” at the end is also pertinent The judgement of the Supreme Court, whatever the motives of the judges, is...
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Anne Abayasekara’s Sturdy Witness to Our Troubled Times
Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera, in Island, 26 December 2018, where the title reads “In the thick of it: Anne Abayasekara, Unfaltering Witness. Review of book – ‘Telling It Like It Is’ … emphasis via...
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Incisive Thoughts on the Presidency in Today’s Situation from Rajan Philips
Rajan Philips, in Sunday Island, 6 January 2019, with this title “Leaving Sirisena alone and finding a way to change the Executive Presidency” There is redundancy in the 2019 air. Impeach, censure or...
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Lakshman Gunasekara’s Reflections on the Political Turmoil in Late 2018:...
Lakshman Gunasekera ONE. Lakshman Gunasekara: “Politics vs Constitutionalism,” in Horizons, 9 December 2018 … When the Bandaranaike International Memorial Conference Hall (BMICH, what a mouthful) began...
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The Split within the JVP in 1983 and the Programme of State Repression in the...
Lionel Bopage, in Sri Lanka Guardian, 29 March 2019,where the title is ‘The Frozen Fire’ — Art and Political Reality There are diverse views about the politics of the JVP and the inherent limitations...
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1948-2019: Intertwined Trajectories summed up …. Sri Lanka and Personnel
Michel Nugawela, in Daily Financial Times, 4 February 2019 In search of a story: Professor Simon Anholt, who coined the term ‘nation brand’, once asked, “If the hand of God should accidentally slip...
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Dharmapala, Banda and Gunadasa as Central Figures in Dissection of...
Harshana Rambukwella Let’s begin with the book title. Why is it called ‘The politics and poetics of authenticity’? The title refers to the central theme of the book. It is primarily about why we think...
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“What Ails Sri Lanka?”— Daya de Silva’s Scathing Analysis
Jayadeva Hettiarachchi, in Sunday Times, 17 February 2018, where the title is “Genuine desire to find the truth about what ails our country.” .…. a review of Daya de Silva: Pearl to a Tear Drop” There...
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Addressing Post-war Dilemmas in Sri Lanka
Laksiri Fernando, review article in Sri Lanka Guardian, 30 March 2019, entitled “The power ambitions and competitions of the elite are highly asymmetric” Political science and political scientists,...
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Paranoid Fears and Ethnic Supremacy: From Christchurch to Sri Lanka and Beyond
Lakshman Gunasekara, in Horizons, 31 March 2019, with this title “Supremacism: harnessing myth, paranoia” “…Before we deal with the fertility rates, we must deal with both the invaders within our...
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