by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 25, 2023 | Review
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 horrific news about Israel’s genocide in Palestine. On reading the book for the first time, I found perhaps...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 17, 2023 | Essay
Budget 2024: ‘Deep Marketisation’ in Sri Lanka 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 legislature. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 9, 2023 | Literary
A Voice from Palestine 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 enemies of civilization … This war is between the forces of...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 7, 2023 | Pravada Online
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...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 4, 2023 | Intervention
2024 and Beyond: Electoral Politics and the Left 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 small victory. The debate provoked by my original piece,...
