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“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