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LTTE and Tamil People IV : Dedicated Tamils
In the previous essays within this cluster I have dwelt on the dedication to cause displayed by the Tamil Tigers...
Continue reading »LTTE and People III : Nationalism and Living Religion
The emergence of the LTTE was an outgrowth from Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism. Tamil nationalism in its turn was an...
Continue reading »LTTE and Tamil People II : Interflows
During the halcyon years of the LTTE, besides MÄvÄ«rar NÄl on 27 November, the Tigers conducted nine other mÄvÄ«rar or...
Continue reading »LTTE and Tamil People I : Preamble
This set of essays on “LTTE and Tamil People” submitted to Groundviews is a sequel to the four articles on...
Continue reading »The needs of the hour
Groundviews has raised a critical issue: “what is the most important issue facing the peoples of Sri Lanka in a...
Continue reading »DILEMMAS AT WARS END: CLARIFICATIONS & COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
My essay DILEMMAS (note the plural) was also sent to a circle of friends and has appeared in other outlets,...
Continue reading »DILEMMA’S AT WAR’S END: THOUGHTS ON HARD REALITIES
With an uncertain number of Tamil ‘civilians’ trapped within the beleaguered and shrinking LTTE territory, Sri Lankan Tamils in the...
Continue reading »The Spectre of Terrorism and Cricketing Fears
Michael Roberts Dept of Anthropology, University of Adelaide Guided by existing evidence from the past two decades, in composing an article...
Continue reading »July 1983: Looking back in anger and despair 25 years on
Photo by Chandragupta Amarasinghe ONE What happened in mid-1983 and in the last week of July 1983 was obscene, a...
Continue reading »How does one BECOME Sinhalese or Tamil in Sentiment?
My interpretation of the present impasse in the politics of Sri Lanka, determined as it is by the competitive jostling-cum-conflicts...
Continue reading »ISSUES FOR TAMIL NATIONALISM: REVISITING PUBLIUS
Early in February we were treated to a cogent, indeed, masterful, essay by Publius [Editors note - read ETHNOS OR...
Continue reading »THE GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL: FROM THE LEFT FLANK
9 February 2008 2008 saw the second festival at Galle, “Let’s Play with Words.” Those present the previous year remarked...
Continue reading »SPLIT ASUNDER: FOUR NATIONS IN SRI LANKA
[Editors note: Scholars and serious readers are encouraged to download the Adobe PDF version of this article that includes all...
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