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Veteran Lankan journalist Qadri Ismail passes away at 60 in US   Source:-colombotimes STAFF WRITER COLOMBO : The sudden demise of Sri Lankan journalist, Professor Qadri Ismail in the United States, has sent shock waves to the media world . In Sri Lanka,Ismail, who was well-known for his independent reporting.He also covered the ethnic war in Sri Lanka before he moved to the USA. He was the son of late Proctor Shakir Ismail  and Fazeera Ismail, he had also authored the new Galle Fort Cookery book. Ismail was associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota, USA, and has also been a journalist in Sri Lanka. His areas of speciality include cultural studies, postcolonial literature, literary theory, gender/sexuality, historiography, democracy, human rights, the enlightenment, the British 19th century and cricket. As a journalist mired in the war-torn jungles of northern Sri Lanka in the late 1980s, Qadri Ismail– lay wounded ...