Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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... Sinhalese reacted violently to injustice - quick to anger , quick to forget . For the past how many years , had this ethnic problem been brewing beneath the surface ? Yet , they had grown up , side by side , the Sinhalese and the Tamils ...
... Sinhalese reacted violently to injustice - quick to anger , quick to forget . For the past how many years , had this ethnic problem been brewing beneath the surface ? Yet , they had grown up , side by side , the Sinhalese and the Tamils ...
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... Sinhalese other hand when Patrick Fernando was growing up at the edge of the British Empire was still a richly metaphoric language . The kind of spoken language Patrick Fernando knew as a child with its still perfectly natural ...
... Sinhalese other hand when Patrick Fernando was growing up at the edge of the British Empire was still a richly metaphoric language . The kind of spoken language Patrick Fernando knew as a child with its still perfectly natural ...
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... Sinhalese , Susil , and the other a Tamil , Rohan , who was rescued by his Sinhalese friend from a burning building in Colombo in July 1983 during the ethnic disturbances . But the issue the play examines is not Sri Lankan as such but ...
... Sinhalese , Susil , and the other a Tamil , Rohan , who was rescued by his Sinhalese friend from a burning building in Colombo in July 1983 during the ethnic disturbances . But the issue the play examines is not Sri Lankan as such but ...
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