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I was not close to Chitrasena, but he was close to me
Amaratunga Arachige Maurice Dias better known as 'Chitrasena' died on the 18th of July 2005. This article was written for the Sunday Island and was published in that newspaper on the 24th of July 24.I...
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Buddhist-Bashing Mangala Samaraweera, the Friday Forum and fraternal tribes
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There are patriots and patriots, realists and mavericks, progressives and...
It is often held, erroneously, that all those who champion culture, heritage and especially language, which is the vehicle that carries these things across the troubled and uneven territories of time,...
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Coughing up sovereignty, Yahapalana-style
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Remember when the Yahapalanists came up with the name ‘Maithri Yugaya’?
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මරණ දඬුවම නොහොත් 'මරුවා සමඟ වාසේ අංක 2'
ඇන්ටන් ජෝන්ස් කියන්නේ 'ලංකාවේ සත්‍ය සිද්ධීන්'ගීතයට පෙරළු ජනප්‍රිය ගායකයෙක්. 'මරුසිරා'යනු ඔහුගේ ගීත වලට පාදක වූ එක් 'සත්‍ය සිද්ධියක'ප්‍රධාන චරිතයකි.උප්පැන්න සහතිකේ සඳහන් නම දෙද්දුව ජයතුන්ගලාගේ සිරිපාල...
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The specter of ‘The Outsider’ in a Presidential Election
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Gota, Caligula and Hitler: a Yahapalanist’s phantasmagoria
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Presidential Election 2020: a note to candidates
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Who truly deserves the asikkhitha (uncivilized) label: unions, commuters or...
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අසූව දශකයට යන ගමනක් ද මේ?
"දැවැන්ත වූ ලෝක-ඓතිහාසික සිද්ධි සහ පුද්ගල චරිත දෙවරක් ඉස්මතුවන බව හේගල් කොහේ හෝ සඳහන් කර ඇත. ඔහුට මෙයට එකතු කිරීමට අමතක වූ කාරණයක් ද ඇත: පළමුව ඛේදවාචකයක් ලෙස ද දෙවනුව ප්‍රහසනයක් ලෙස. ඩොන්ටොන් වෙනුවට...
View ArticleManifesto-Notes for Presidential Hopefuls: The state
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How about including ‘Reparations’ in school curricula?
History is version. This is true. And yet, certain versions have a greater degree of believability than others. Dominant narratives do bear upon the present and can get in the way of obtaining...
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Chulananda's poetic intervention to reconfigure a shattered island
Book Review: ‘දැහැමිද මේ දිවයින’ (Dehamida Me Divayina’) and ‘Glimpses of a Shattered Island’ by Chulananda Samaranayake, Subhavi Publishers, 2017. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi, Senior Lecturer in Sinhala,...
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No movies on the collective dead, ladies and gentlemen
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Notes for a Manifesto: Justice, Law and Order
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Notes for a Manifesto: understanding the executive
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'Disappearances': acceptance and apportionment of guilt
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The unbearable lightness of brieflessness
Pic by Mary Lou KayserA friend of mine (let’s call her Brenda) lives, breathes, consumes and is consumed by advertising. I remember, years ago, she returned after the official launching of the...
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Sulochana Dissanayake’s world of giants and ants
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