Birth Name:

Nira Wickramasinghe

Female

Birth Date:

Fri, May 08, 1964

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Age:

59

Zodiac Sign:

Taurus

Astrology Data:

Sun

17°

Tau

41'

About Nira Wickramasinghe

Nira Konjit Wickramasinghe is professor of modern South Asian studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and a well known international academic. She was a professor in the department of history and international relations, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, until 2009. She grew up in Paris and studied at the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne from 1981 to 1984 and at the University of Oxford from 1985 to 1989, where she earned her doctorate in modern history. She joined the University of Colombo in 1990 and taught there until 2009. She has been a World Bank Robert McNamara fellow, a Fulbright senior scholar at New York University, a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and more recently British Academy Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. She is currently working on a history of the reception of the sewing machine in colonial Sri Lanka, a topic which she researched while on sabbatical at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Princeton University in 2008–2009.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Sri Lanka’s conflict: culture and lineages of the past

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Nira Wickramasinghe: Sun 17 Taurus, Moon 28 Pisces, Mercury 1 Taurus, Venus 29 Gemini, Mars 0 Taurus, Jupiter 6 Taurus, Saturn 3 Pisces, Uranus 5 Virgo, Neptune 16 Scorpio, Pluto 11 Virgo, Sun Opposition Neptune, Mercury Conjunct Jupiter, Mercury Sextile Saturn, Mercury Sextile Venus, Mercury Conjunct Mars, Mercury Trine Uranus, Venus Sextile Mars, Venus Trine Saturn, Venus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Mars Conjunct Jupiter, Mars Sextile Saturn, Jupiter Sextile Saturn, Jupiter Trine Uranus, Saturn Opposition Uranus, Uranus Conjunct Pluto

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Photo attribution: Abhijit Wickramasinghe, Nira Wickramasinghe