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The Office on Missing Persons post-2020: Who and What is it for? Chulani Kodikara
Demonstration held in front of the National War Heroes’ Monument by the National Collective of War Heroes (Jathika Ranawiru Ekamuthuwa), several other civil society organisations, and Members of Parliament of
Polity turns 30!
30 years ago, the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) of Sri Lanka began publishing in print an English-language periodical of progressive opinion on current affairs, under
නවලිබරල්වාදය සහ ‘නගරයට ඇති අයිතිය’: මෑතකාලීන කොළඹ නාගරික අවකාශමය නවීකරණයෙහි බහිෂ්කරණය – හසිනි ලේකම්වසම්
ඡායා රූපය: කල්ප රාජපක්ෂ හැඳින්වීම ‘නගරයට ඇති අයිතිය’ පිළිබඳව බොහෝ දේ රචනා වී ඇත. හෙන්රි ලෆේව්’ගෙන් ඇරඹි මේ වටිනා සහ වැදගත් කතිකාව තුළ නාගරීකරණයේ ඵල
Reflections on State Formation in Sri Lanka – Sunil Bastian
Source There is nothing natural or inevitable about states. They are formed under certain historical conditions; they undergo change and under certain circumstances can even
Debating the Transition from a Closed to an Open Economy – Devaka Gunawardena
Source The year of 1977 has become a highly charged symbol for understanding the current crisis. After the transition from a “closed” to an “open”
‘Executive Authoritarianism’ as Sri Lanka’s New Political Normal since COVID-19* – Jayadeva Uyangoda
Source The ways in which countries from the global North to the global South have politically managed the unprecedented public health emergency situation brought about