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Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 by Kalyani Ramnath. California: Stanford University Press, 2023, 308p.
Luc Bulten
Kalyani Ramnath’s Boats in a Storm contributes to the ever-growing body of literature using legal archives to help reconstruct a supernational history of the Indian
Opening: Post-doctoral and Senior Research Fellowships
The OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development by CEU Democracy Institute (Budapest), Universidad de los Andes, (Bogotá), the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at
On the Edge: University Education in Sri Lanka by Kaushalya Perera
At the COP-28 Climate Change Conference in Dubai in December 2023, Ranil Wickremesinghe announced the establishment of a Climate Change University in Sri Lanka. In
Independence Day – Binu Peiris
The Lankan flag sways high and mighty on Galle Face Green, The Lion roars with pride, bowing before Samarakoon’s words, A twenty-year-old is asked by
“One day, nobody will even ask about us”: The obsolete silversmiths of Kandy by Hasini Lecamwasam
Hand-operated silver rolling machine In the course of research into why the traditional craft economy, despite being a key medium through which Sinhala nationalism is
The Cannon and the Cranium: Towards a Wider Agenda for Reparatory Justice in Sri Lanka by Andi Schubert
Lewke Disave’s Cannon, Colombo National Museum Lara Wijesuriya’s excellent recent essay is a wonderful invitation for further conversation about the politics of repatriation and the
When crises converge: how uneven agrarian development influences the effects of climate change in Sri Lanka’s North-Central dry zone by Harry M. Quealy and Cherisma Rajaratnam
In 2016-2017, Sri Lanka’s North-Central dry zone suffered what had been described as the worst drought in decades (Fernandez 2017). The severe drought conditions, followed
Palestine and Us
Three months of atrocity upon atrocity and abomination upon abomination have passed since the dogs of war were unleashed over Palestine. As of the dawn
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