| IT WAS ELECTION TIME | Jayadeva Uyangoda | 03 |
| FROM ‘POST-WAR’ TO POLITICAL SOLUTION | N.Shanmugaratnam | 10 |
| THE 2010 GENERAL ELECTION | Pradeep Peiris | 14 |
| RECONFIGURING PATRONAGE POLITICS | Minna Thaheer | 20 |
| CULT OF CELEBRITY AND THE ELECTRONICS | Maya | 26 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | ||
| TURNING ETHNOGRAPHIC TABLES: THE POLITICS OF WARZONE WRITING | Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake | 28 |
| AVATAR AS PARABLE | Rohini Hensman | 31 |
| WHEN A TRUTHFUL WOMAN SPEAKS, IT IS LIFE THAT IS SPEAKING | Sarojini Jayawickrama | 34 |
| THE WEIGHT ON A CONSCIENCE | Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe | 42 |
| IN MEMORIAM | ||
| THE EVA I KNEW | Vijita Fernando | 45 |
| IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER | Rohini Hensman | 46 |
| ON THE BEACH | Jean Arasanayagam | 48 |
