by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 17, 2023 | Review
Abolish Marriage? Kanchuka Dharmasiri’s play Surpanakha Liyanage Amarakeerthi The Ramayana has many retellings, and there will be more to come. Kanchuka Dharmasiri’s new play, Surpanakha (2022), is a brilliant retelling of an episode in the South Asian mythical...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 10, 2023 | Review
Women’s Labour Force Participation: Three Themes Chulani Kodikara The IMF Staff Report on Sri Lanka released in March 2022 outlined a number of policy prescriptions to address Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis, including increasing women’s labour force...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 6, 2023 | Essay
Test for Real Life? The Gender Transition Process in Sri Lanka Kaushalya Ariyarathne The earliest record of sex reassignment surgery in a Sri Lankan public hospital can be traced back to 2003. Even though there was no government procedure for sex reassignment and...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Agrarian Regimes in Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis – Call for Articles Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence which has in turn given rise to food insecurity, food poverty, and increasing malnourishment and stunting. Central to these issues is...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 26, 2023 | Review
Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities Kate Cronin-Furman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022 Reviewed by Radhika Coomaraswamy When I was given Kate Cronin-Furman’s book Hypocrisy and Human Rights to review, I imagined a different...
