by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 27, 2021 | Essay
Qadri Ismail (1961 – 2021): Abiding, Acknowledging, and Accounting for Intellectual Debts Andi Schubert Fuck 2021. Well, that seems like an appropriately Qadri-esque way[i] to open a reflection on his untimely and sudden death, only a few months after the loss of Dr...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 25, 2021 | From the Archive
The Moral Mother Syndrome Malathi de Alwis I was in a trishaw recently trying out my discussion topic of the month — social violence — when the driver suddenly launched into a passionate tirade that the reason for all the violence within our society was that “our”...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 21, 2021 | Polity
Polity Vol.8 No.1 & 2 Editorial: Environment & Society in Sri Lanka, pp. 02 – 03 Crossing Borders: Sovereign Life and Sovereignty – Sivamohan Sumathy , pp. 04-07 Beyond Numbers: Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 Response, Politics and People – Ramya Kumar, pp. 8 – 13 April...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 21, 2021 | From the Archive
A Flippant Gesture Towards Sri Lanka: A Review of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost Qadri Ismail Novels like all other texts take sides. Literary orthodoxy may hold, still, that fiction must be read and evaluated on purely aesthetic grounds. But leftist literary...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 15, 2021 | Essay
Identity Formation in the Sinhalese Transnational Community in Toronto, Canada Sankajaya Nanayakkara The current literature on diaspora makes a break from the old assimilationist and methodologically nationalist perspective on migration. The older perspective took the...
