Return to Sri Lanka
Author | : Razeen Sally |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Economists |
ISBN | : 9789353450601 |
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Author | : Razeen Sally |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Economists |
ISBN | : 9789353450601 |
Author | : Razeen Sally |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2025-01-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781398544291 |
Author | : Cherry Briggs |
Publisher | : Summersdale |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013-06-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 085765926X |
The Teardrop Island follows in the footsteps of the eccentric Victorian James Emerson Tennent, along a route which takes Cherry to pilgrimage trails, tea estates, and rural regions inhabited by indigenous tribes, and through areas of the former warzone, delving under the surface of the contemporary culture via cricket matches and fortune tellers.
Author | : Sunila Galappatti |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2016-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9350291797 |
A Long Watch is the story of the highest-ranking prisoner taken by the Tamil Tigers during Sri Lanka's civil war, a naval officer pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea. For eight years Commodore Boyagoda lived at close quarters with his declared enemy, his imprisonment punctuated by extended conversations with his jailers and scratch games of cricket played in jungle clearings. Throughout, he observed his captors and fellow prisoners acutely, and with discreet empathy for the lives of others undone by war. This is a rare first-hand account of a close encounter between the protagonists of the war. Refusing sensationalism, it offers a statement of human complexity amid the polarized narratives of a brutal conflict.
Author | : Nira Wickramasinghe |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2006-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824830168 |
Since the late 1970s civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis; conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars in the last two decades have thus tended to focus on the state’s failure to accommodate the needs and demands of the minorities. The entire history of the twentieth century has been tied to this one key issue. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age offers a fresh perspective based on new research. Above all, the author has written a history of the peoples of Sri Lanka rather than a history of the nation-state.
Author | : Christopher Woodruff, David McKenzie, Suresh de Mel |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Abstract: Small and informal firms account for a large share of employment in developing countries. The rapid expansion of microfinance services is based on the belief that these firms have productive investment opportunities and can enjoy high returns to capital if given the opportunity. However, measuring the return to capital is complicated by unobserved factors such as entrepreneurial ability and demand shocks, which are likely to be correlated with capital stock. The authors use a randomized experiment to overcome this problem and to measure the return to capital for the average microenterprise in their sample, regardless of whether they apply for credit. They accomplish this by providing cash and equipment grants to small firms in Sri Lanka, and measuring the increase in profits arising from this exogenous (positive) shock to capital stock. After controlling for possible spillover effects, the authors find the average real return to capital to be 5.7 percent a month, substantially higher than the market interest rate. They then examine the heterogeneity of treatment effects to explore whether missing credit markets or missing insurance markets are the most likely cause of the high returns. Returns are found to vary with entrepreneurial ability and with measures of other sources of cash within the household, but not to vary with risk aversion or uncertainty.
Author | : Verity Campbell |
Publisher | : Lonely Planet |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : 9781740590396 |
Whether you want to marvel at ancient cities or the Buddha's tooth, comb idyllic beaches or follow the paths of elephants, this guide to the colours and flavours of Sri Lanka is your key to unlocking its secrets. 43 maps, including a colour country map; colour section on the wildlife of Sri Lanka, plus essential tips for bird-watchers; the flavours of Sri Lanka, from a morning hopper to an evening arrack; from cheap dens to colonial mansions - the scoop on where to puff your pillow.
Author | : Roma Tearne |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Canada |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1554689708 |
On the lush coast of Sri Lanka, a talented and beautiful young woman, Nulani, returns day after day to the verandah of a beach house to paint. Her subject is Theo, a writer attempting to heal from a tragic loss and struggling to complete a faltering novel. Just as love blossoms between them, the country is shaken by civil war. Through the years that follow, Nulani and Theo must depend upon their memories and the art that once brought them together to find the strength to face their much changed lives. In a rare and unforgettable work, Roma Tearne captures both the fragility and the endurance of love. The story unfolds in a beguiling landscape as Tearne presents us with the turmoil of the Sri Lankan civil war, told unusually from a woman's point of view.
Author | : Michael Ondaatje |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2011-03-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307776646 |
In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.
Author | : Sharika Thiranagama |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2011-08-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0812205111 |
In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam—better known as the Tamil Tigers—officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war. Although the war has ended, the place of minorities in Sri Lanka remains uncertain, not least because the lengthy conflict drove entire populations from their homes. The figures are jarring: for example, all of the roughly 80,000 Muslims in northern Sri Lanka were expelled from the Tamil Tiger-controlled north, and nearly half of all Sri Lankan Tamils were displaced during the course of the civil war. Sharika Thiranagama's In My Mother's House provides ethnographic insight into two important groups of internally displaced people: northern Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri Lankan Muslims. Through detailed engagement with ordinary people struggling to find a home in the world, Thiranagama explores the dynamics within and between these two minority communities, describing how these relations were reshaped by violence, displacement, and authoritarianism. In doing so, she illuminates an often overlooked intraminority relationship and new social forms created through protracted war. In My Mother's House revolves around three major themes: ideas of home in the midst of profound displacement; transformations of familial experience; and the impact of the political violence—carried out by both the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan state—on ordinary lives and public speech. Her rare focus on the effects and responses to LTTE political regulation and violence demonstrates that envisioning a peaceful future for postconflict Sri Lanka requires taking stock of the new Tamil and Muslim identities forged by the civil war. These identities cannot simply be cast away with the end of the war but must be negotiated anew.