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Two conceptions of Jewish identity
Rohini Hensman
Critics of religion who regard it as illusory and harmful, from Marx and his associates and followers to militant atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher
Undermining statutory rape protection in Sri Lanka
Kumudini Samuel and Chulani Kodikara
On 9th February, the government gazetted a Bill to amend Sections 363 and 364 of the Penal Code (Chapter 19) which deals with statutory rape.
Privatisation from within ‘Free Education’: Tuition Classes in Anuradhapura
Amali Waidyasekera
The school attendance of students facing national level examinations such as Ordinary and Advanced Level, drastically drops closer to the respective examinations according to the
Zionism in Crisis after October 7? What Crisis?
Neve Gordon
Editors’ Note: The remarks below by Professor Neve Gordon were made at a teach-in on Gaza at Queen’s University, Belfast (QUB) organised by the QUB
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
Best Reads 2023
Vajra Chandrasekera I have meant to read Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) my whole adult life but only picked it up while glued to the current
Budget 2024: ‘Deep Marketisation’ in Sri Lanka by B. Skanthakumar
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Budget for 2024 had safe passage on third reading on 13 December as expected, with a majority of 41 votes in the 225-member
A Voice from Palestine by M. A. Nuhman
[Israeli defence minister says: ‘‘We are fighting with human animals” and prime minister Netanyahu says in his address to the nation: ‘‘Israel is fighting with the
නාද්යාගේ Minarets නාදය: “ඉස්ලාමීය සද්දයක්ද? සිනමා සද්දයක්ද? NGO සද්දයක්ද? ” – බූපති නලින් වික්රමගේ
වාර්තා චිත්රපටයක් තවදුරටත් වාර්තාවකටම ඌණනය විය යුතු නැත. සිනමාව තවදුරටත් සමාජ විද්යාවේ කාර්යභාරය ද ඉටු කළ යුතු ද නැත. සමාජ විද්යාත්මක තොරතුරු සාධනය යනු තවදුරටත්
2024 and Beyond: Electoral Politics and the Left by Devaka Gunawardena
Amid a suffocating consensus on austerity, any opportunity to expand on the current stakes of Left strategy in Sri Lanka must be seen as a
Repatriation and Reparation: Objects and the Colonial Museum by Lara Wijesuriya
Exhibit 1: Throne of Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe, Colombo National Museum In 1934, the Duke of Gloucester paid a State visit to Ceylon, bringing with him
Why 2024 Will Not Be 2015 Redux by Ramindu Perera
Amidst the woes of a deepening economic crisis and the disastrous effect of International Monetary Fund-dictated austerity measures, Sri Lanka is passing through a tremendous
ප්රවාද 39 (2023, ජූලි) – වියමන් හා ලියමන්
පිටකවර ඡායාරූපය: සකුණ මියැසිනාද ගමගේ පටුන විවිධ ක්ෂේත්ර තුළ “ආකයිවය” පිළිබඳ න්යාය – මාර්ලීන් මෑනොෆ් ආකයිවය ගොඩනැගීම: මිනෙට් ද සිල්වා, ගෘහ නිර්මාණ ශිල්පය, සහ ඉතිහාසය