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IT WAS ELECTION TIME Jayadeva Uyangoda 03 FROM ‘POST-WAR’ TO POLITICAL SOLUTION N.Shanmugaratnam 10 THE 2010 GENERAL ELECTION Pradeep Peiris 14 RECONFIGURING PATRONAGE POLITICS Minna Thaheer 20 CULT OF CELEBRITY AND THE ELECTRONICS Maya 26 BOOK REVIEWS TURNING ETHNOGRAPHIC TABLES: THE POLITICS OF WARZONE WRITING Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake 28 AVATAR AS PARABLE Rohini Hensman 31 WHEN …
NO RETURN TO THE GALLOWS 4 HANG THE DEATH PENALTY! 13 CREEPING TALIBANIZATION? 15 BUDDHISM DURING COLONIAL RULE Terry C. Muck 17 THE MOON IN THE WATER John Stifler 20 POVERTY AND PEOPLE’S POWER Nimal Sanderatne 22 THE CONTRADICTIONS OF RELIGIOUS PRETENSIONS Asoka Ekanayaka 24 UPALI COORAY (1939-2009) Charles Wesley Ervin 26 1947 GENERAL STRIKE- …
