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From the Archives (March 17, 1971): Emergency declared in Ceylon

From the Archives (March 17, 1971): Emergency declared in Ceylon March 17, 2021 00:15 IST Updated: March 17, 2021 00:15 IST Updated: Share Article AAA The Government of Ceylon has declared a state of emergency with effect from midnight to-night [March 16]. The Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, is due to broadcast to the nation to-morrow morning when she is expected to tell the people about the situation in the country. The “Che Guvera” insurgent group which has come under strict police surveillance consists mainly of educated unemployed youth. They have been holding secret classes in various parts of the country on guerrilla activities. Several of them have been arrested by the police but they have had to be subsequently released as no specific charges could be brought against them under the present laws. The Government is now reported to be framing legislation to give wider powers to police to investigate insurgent activities. During the past few days, there hav

From the Archives (March 17, 1921): Madras School of ArtsFrom an Editorial

From the Archives (March 17, 1921): Madras School of ArtsFrom an Editorial March 17, 2021 00:15 IST Updated: March 17, 2021 00:15 IST Updated: Share Article AAA The feeling is growing among people interested in the matter that the Madras School of Arts has fallen upon evil days. As we have more than once pointed out, the school does not now enjoy about half the popularity that it did in the days of Mr. Havell. It would appear that pure art is seriously neglected in the School, while in the matter of industrial art it has yet to establish a reputation. Mr. Hadaway, the present Principal of the School, appears to be a gentleman who prefers the Arcadian methods of education. He is an enthusiastic exponent of the doctrine that anatomy and geometry has never yet been of real service in making an artist and expects his students to be geniuses to blossom forth, solely by dint of hard work in drawing from figures of objects and without the adventitious aid of anatomy and geometry, i

From the Archives (March 16, 1921): Professor and his prejudice

Professor F.J.C. Hearnshaw, a well-known student of European history and a great admirer of the orthodox variety of democracy, writes, in a recent book of his, with reference to Egypt and India: “I be

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