by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 14, 2024 | Essay
When crises converge: how uneven agrarian development influences the effects of climate change in Sri Lanka’s North-Central dry zone Harry M. Quealy and Cherisma Rajaratnam In 2016-2017, Sri Lanka’s North-Central dry zone suffered what had been described as the worst...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 8, 2024 | Editorial
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 of 2024, over 22,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been killed, and around 57,000...
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...
