Contemporary Politics

(This essay was initially published in The Island on 13 November 2025: https://island.lk/the-art-of-diplomacy/) On 8th November 2025, I visited the

(This essay was initially published in The Island on 05 November 2025: https://island.lk/harini-amarasuriya-social-ethnographic-research-lab-much-ado-about-nothing/) As I listened to the Prime Minister, Dr. Harini

(This essay was initially published in The Island on 29 October 2025: https://island.lk/does-sri-lanka-contribute-to-global-intellectual-expansion-of-social-sciences-and-humanities/) Let me begin with a confession.  Even

(Initially published in The Island, 25 October 2025: https://island.lk/the-show-goes-on/) “Bring to me mustard seeds from a family where no one

Sasanka Perera (This essay was initially published in The Island on 15 September 2025: https://island.lk/writing-with-passion-and-conviction/ “We write to taste life

Sasanka Perera (Initially published in The Island on 26 March 2025: https://island.lk/notes-from-akds-textbook/) There is a vast and increasingly interesting body

Anushka Kahandagamage (Initially published in The Island, 24th of March 2025: https://island.lk/politics-of-enforced-disappearances-in-sri-lanka/) Two Stories In 2016, I participated in research

අනුෂ්කා කහඳගමගේ (ප්‍රථමයෙන් පළවූයේ 2025 මාර්තු 19 වෙනිදා දිනමිණ ‘ප්‍රවේශ’ අතිරේකයේය: https://www.dinamina.lk/2025/03/19/ප්රවේශ/174850/වැඩබිමේ-ආරක්ෂාව-කාන්තා-ග/) පහුගිය සතිය ආරම්භ වූයේ අනුරාධපුර රෝහලේ සේවයකළ ගැහැණු

Sasanka Perera(Initially published in The Island of 17 Match 2025: https://island.lk/neighbourhood-lost-the-end-is-nigh-for-saarcs-south-asian-university/ and a shorter version in The Wire on 8

Anushka Kahandagamage (Initially published in The Island, 14th of March 2025:https://island.lk/womens-struggles-and-mens-unions/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJBATNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVCy4mvypu1pvLLgyITHERY_9bBI6tK5j9jcNw0gQdTJnmR2p3-3x6nVGA_aem_8Vc4BQhXrB9UZ2luafP_3g) Last week began with the disturbing news of a