Press "Enter" to skip to content

Literary-Prize Politics, Cold War, and the Disinformation Game: On the Weaponization of Religion/s and Decolonizing History and Fiction

By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake

“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

William Shakespeare, Macbeth


by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake 

The writer, Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, is a Social and Medical Anthropologist, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.  Links to Gospa News articles have been added by our Editorial Staff

Why are there no Booker Prize-winning novels about mundane multicultural families that inter-married for generations, shared religion/s, language/s, histories, and co-existed for centuries, while living in relative harmony in Ceylon/ Sri Lanka?

Is the trope of ‘dark natives’ engaged in endless, chaotic violence an international literature prize-winning bestseller that masks white mischief, including sanitized, techno-scientific AI guided hybrid warfare in a post-Truth world awash in distracting Culture Wars?

Susan William’s brilliant and brave book “White Malice” is subtitled “The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa’. Her analysis may well apply to Eurobond debt trapped Sri Lanka, Pakistan, most recently Bangladesh and other Afro-Asian post/colonies, where National Endowment for Democracy (NED), funded protests and regime change operations have unfolded recently. NED is known as the second Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 

Conversely, why are there very few prizes, literary or otherwise, for brilliant cross-over social science researchers and journalists like Phil Miller, author of the book “Keenie Meenie:The British Mercenaries who got away with war crimes” in Sri Lanka, Oman, Afghanistan, and other parts of the post/colony. Or, perhaps we should call it the post-Covid-19 Eurobond and International Monetary Fund (IMF) debt-trapped, Afro-Asian neo-colony.

Read Full Article Here…(gospanews.net)


Home | Caravan to Midnight (zutalk.com)

Live Stream + Chat (zutalk.com)

We Need Your Help to Keep Caravan To Midnight Going,

Please Consider Donating to Help Keep Independent Media Independent

Breaking News: