by ssa-admin-032024 | May 24, 2024 | Review
Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Impunity, violence, and the politics of representation The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Shehan Karunatilaka. Gurugram, Harayana: Penguin Books, 2022 Reviewed by Harshana Rambukwella A murdered journalist...
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 | Oct 2, 2023 | Review
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka by Bandura Dileepa Witharana. Colombo: Tambapanni Academic Publishers, 2022 Reviewed by Cherry Briggs Since the mid-1980s, the subjects of nationalism and Sinhalese identity have dominated...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Sep 4, 2023 | Review
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan. Manhattan: Random House, 2023 Reviewed by Vasugi Kailasam Brotherless Night is V. V. Ganeshananthan’s second novel. I read this novel in late July 2023, with a fevered reminder of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Aug 7, 2023 | Review
Claiming Identity, Dignity, and Justice: Malaiyaha Tamils of Sri Lanka B. Skanthakumar The 150th anniversary of the beginning of the tea industry in British Ceylon was marked in 2017 by a range of government and corporate events, mostly to promote Sri Lanka’s premier...
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...
