Contemporary Politics

Sasanka Perera (This essay was initially published in The Island on 24 December 2025:https://island.lk/the-aesthetics-and-the-visual-politics-of-an-artisanal-community/) Organized by the Colombo Institute for

Sasanka Perera (This essay was initially published in The Island on 19 December 2025: https://island.lk/poltergeist-of-universities-act/) The Universities Act is back

Sasanka Perera(This essay was initially published in The Island on 10 December 2025:https://island.lk/handunnetti-and-colonial-shackles-of-english-in-sri-lanka/) When Minister Sunil Handunnetti addressed the World

(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