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By Uditha Devapriya In Sri Lank, as in every other colonial outpost, resistance to foreign domination predated Western intervention by well more than two centuries. Surviving numerous onslaughts of South Indian conquest, the Anuradhapura kingdom gave way to the Polonnaruwa kingdom in the 11th century AD. The latter’s demise 200 years later led to a […]
Jaffna were able to regain the top position of the points table with a comfortable 51 run win over Damublla in the National Super League (NSL) Limited Overs tournament match at Pallekele yesterday. Captain Dhananjaya de Silva was the star for Jaffna with a century. Batsmen have failed to dominate the competition so far and […]
By Uditha Devapriya In claiming that all mainstream parties have failed the country, the JVP-NPP has made a necessity out of virtue. The JVP has always touted itself as the better alternative, and in the present conjuncture, it feels it’s the best alternative we have. That may explain why its manifesto, “Rapid Response”, reads like […]
By Uditha Devapriya For the oppressed masses of the Third World, the establishment of UNCTAD and the proposal for a New International Economic Order marked the high point of 20th century multilateralism. These coincided with the longest spell of decolonisation recorded in history, in turn fuelled by a spate of bourgeois democratic and Marxist Left […]
Dr. Roland Silva Memorial Lecture: By Uditha Devapriya On Thursday, 27 January, Prof. Romila Thapar will deliver the Dr Roland Silva Memorial Lecture to the National Trust of Sri Lanka. Prof. Thapar will be speaking about the museums in India, charting their evolution from private collections to public displays and placing them in the context […]