The heroic saga of Monarawila Keppettipola
This week marks the 189th anniversary of the
execution at Bogambara, Kandy of patriot and national hero
Monarawila Keppettipola, who led the 1817-18 Uva rebellion against
the British two years after the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom.
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The getting of un-wisdom
Sri Lankan-Australian writer Michelle de
Kretser's latest novel The Lost Dog is out now. Kretser abandons her
more historical settings to locate her latest novel about being
haunted by loss in a city uncannily like Melbourne, writes Fiona
Gruber.
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Unrest in the Lankan universities, who is responsible?
During the past few years it has emerged as a
common phenomenon the agitation by university students over various
issues in a ruthless manner with an outburst of pandemonium.
Numerically the universities had intensified. In the past there was
only one university - The Ceylon University. Generally universities
are recognised as the highest seats of learning. They are expected
to produce persons of academic brilliance excelled in various arts
and sciences.
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