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Author: Dr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan

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Colombo, Development, Politics and Governance

Hijacking a Third World State: Post-colonial governance, elitism and international law. The case of Sri Lanka.

Photo via The creation of elitism, patronage and postcolonial governance Sri Lanka’s idle paradise had operated, since the end of British colonialism, within the British institutional system and legal measures. These were…

Dr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan Dr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan on 06/09/202006/09/2020
70 Years of Independence, Politics and Governance

Caged Independence

The cherished Maya Angelou wrote once in her famous poem ‘Caged Bird’: [T]he caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard…

Dr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan Dr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan on 02/14/2018

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