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Political Currents and Conflicts in Sri Lanka — Venugopal’s New CUP Book
Benjamin Brown, reviewing Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka by Rajesh Venugopal …. at...
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Double Standards among Liberals in the West: No RAGE from Sri Lankan Horrors...
Brendan O’Neill, in Weekend Australian, 27 April 2019, with this title “Hierarchy of Victimhood: The slaughter of Christians elicits grief not outrage “ Where is the anger over the apocalyptic...
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Secular Bulwarks against Religious Fanaticism — Our Urgent Need
Tisaranee Gunasekara, whose choice of title has been “Secularism or Faith” — in an article which appeared in Groundviews as well as Sri Lanka Guardian “And even here Lies the other shore Waiting to be...
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Tisaranee’s Secularist Thesis is Simplistic
Thank you for forwarding me Tisaranee Gunasekara’s article. Tisaranee in her analysis cites secularism as a panacea for all the ills that are prevalent in Sri Lanka.….....
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Remembering SBD de Silva: A Scholar in Every Fibre
Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta, in Sunday Island, 16 June 2019, where the title reads “One Thing Leads to Another – Memories of a Great Guru” SBD de Silva, at 92, acted like he would live forever. To the...
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Buddhism over Time in Colonial and Independent Sri Lanka
Abstract of Article by Ananda Abeysekara entitled “Buddhism and ‘Influence’: The Temporality of a Concept” Qui Parle, 2019, Vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1-75. For almost three decades the concept of “Protestant...
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French Revolutionary Songs …. Marchons! Marchons!
Satyajith Andradi, in Island, 12 July 2019, with this title “La Marseillaise And L’internationale – Revolutionary Songs From France” “How many on our flesh eat their fill? But if the ravens, the...
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“Bonfire of the Vanities” in Screeching Crescendo in Sri Lanka Today
Elmo Jayawardena, in Island, 15 August 2019, … http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=209019 The phrase BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES took life more...
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The Political Paths We Sri Lankans Face
“Friday Forum” in Resurrected Form Savitri Goonesekere, Chandra Jayaratne et al in Island, 3 September 2019, “Presidential Elections And The Peoples’ Options” In a few months’ time this country will...
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Vale: Carlo Fonseka’s Manifold Gifts Inscribed in Memory
ONE: Ishara Jayawardena: “Carlo Fonseka: Unparalleled,” Daily News, 4 September 2019 Professor Carlo Fonseka ushered in an episode rare in its own right. He always stood for what he thought was just....
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Composing THE BROKEN PALMYRAH: Rajani Thiranagama’s Rigorous Oversight … and...
Rajan Hoole, whose chosen title is “Thirty Years After: Rajini Rajasingham Thiranagama’s Lasting Impact” Text of Speech delivered by DR. Rajan Hoole at Trimmer Hall, Jaffna, on 21st September 2019 to...
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The Crushing Sway of the English Language in 20th Century Ceylon
Vinod Moonesinghe, ….. responding to a passing ethnographic note by Chandra Fernando which ran thus “Unfortunately, Mr Bandaranaike, who had Oxford Education, was not intelligent enough to know the...
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DS Senanayake’s Life and Times by KM de Silva … hits the island roads
Press Release from the ICES at Kandy The ceremonial launch of two publications of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES, Kandy) titled, respectively, as The Life of D. S. Senanayake...
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Sri Lanka’s Rivers of Grief from 1956-to-Present within Documentary Film
Anurudha Kodagoda in Sunday Observer, 6 October 2019, reviewing Dharmasiri Bandaranayake’s TEARS IN PARADISE Dharmasiri Bandaranayake’s latest documentary film, ‘Tears in Paradise’ (Paradisayaka...
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Political Currents Past and Present bearing on the Sri Lankan Dilemmas Now
DCP Amarasekere[i], in Island, 28 October 2019, with this title “Beyond the story of doom: the social base of ‘new authoritarianism’ in Sri Lanka” With only a few weeks left for the 2019 Presidential...
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Populist Pressures as the Central Problem in Lanka’s Recent History …. And...
Kumar David, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, 4 December 2019 where the title is “Ethnic conflict -The Problem is the People” Today’s column is of an academic nature, where names are used it is for...
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Boris and Gota: Where the “Progressives” were Out-of-Mind
Malinda Seneviratne, in his Blog where the title runs thus: “The flooring of ideologies and ideologues” Labour gaining ground. One in ten still undecided. Jeremy Corbyn is much closer to becoming Prime...
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The Decline of the LSSP in 20th Century Sri Lanka: Sivasambu’s Question
Fr l-to-r= Philip, Colvin R, NM and Reggie Perera ABOUT Nathan Sivasambu: Nathan Sivasambu is an old-school Trotskyite and a Sri Lankan to the core. After his undergraduate degree from the University...
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Bracegirdle and the Early LSSP in Anti-Colonial Thrusts
Vinod Moonesinghe, courtesy of Roar, 21 May 2017, where the title reads “Bracegirdle: The Young Anglo-Australian Behind Sri Lanka’s Independence Struggle” After the Matale Revolt of 1848, the...
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Becoming and Being Sri Lankan: The National Anthem in Our Mother Tongues
Eranda Ginige, on in Lanka News Web, 6 January 2020, where the title is “The Language of the National Anthem” The Dominion of Ceylon was formed on 4 February 1948 with the singing of Britain’s national...
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