by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 17, 2022 | Interview
In and Out of Place: A Conversation between Shyam Selvadurai and Neloufer de Mel This conversation was part of a panel discussion on Imaginative Geographies: The Place of Sri Lanka in Contemporary Sri Lankan Writing in English, featured at the virtual festival on...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 10, 2022 | Essay
Democracy in the Global Interregnum Devaka Gunawardena The meaning of democracy is becoming unmoored. Since the end of World War II, the US claimed the banner of democracy, while it underwent profound transformation at home through the civil rights movement and other...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 4, 2022 | Essay
Budget 2022: Brace for Austerity B. Skanthakumar “… we must at least now, stop, groping in the darkness” ~ Basil Rajapaksa (12 November 2021) Basil Rajapaksa’s maiden Budget for 2022 received parliamentary approval on 10th December 2021, as to be expected in a...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 15, 2021 | Essay
Nationality, Complex Identities, and Multiple Belongings Rohini Hensman As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pravada/Polity, it is a pleasure to have been associated with it, as a regular contributor, over this period. One reason I did so was because it was...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 9, 2021 | Essay
‘A Letter from the Village’ Udan Fernando I was recently, and abruptly, reminded of a conversation that a junior researcher at a research institute I previously worked at, had with a few colleagues including myself. For whatever reason, Gamini Foneska’s name popped...
