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February 19, 2014 · 10:36 am

Baila, Tamil Caste Transactions & the Screening of Muslim Women in Galle Fort studied

International Journal of Ethnic and Social Studies (IJESS)….. Volume II, Number 1: June 2013 Published by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies Reviewed by Esther M McIntosh The second volume of the International Journal of Ethnic and Social Studies (IJESS), reaffirms … Continue reading →

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June 2, 2014 · 3:40 am

The Idea of Justice and the Importance of Democracy: A Journey with Amartya Sen … for Sri Lanka

Nishan de Mel, a re-print of a review essay from Nethra [an ICES journal now defunct] … the book reviewed being The Idea of Justice, by Amartya Sen  (Allen Lane, 496 pp., £25.00) The Bhagavad Gīta section of the Mahābhārata … Continue reading →

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July 5, 2014 · 4:17 am

The American Agenda for Sri Lanka’s National Issues, 1970s-2014

Daya Gamage, former US State Department Political Specialist ….. with the pictures being acts of editorial license that are informed by some of the central contentions in this essay: namely, that in early May 2009 USA wished to mount a rescue … Continue reading →

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September 15, 2013 · 6:17 pm

Lakshman Perera’s Neglected Opus reviewed by Sudharshan

Sudharshan Seneviratne, with original title in The Island of 4th August 2001 being Situating history and ‘The Historian’s Craft’** a review of The Institutions of Ancient Ceylon from Ins criptions (from 3 century BC to 830 AD) Volume 1 by … Continue reading →

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September 30, 2013 · 5:15 pm

Forgotten woes: Sri Lanka’s neoliberal politics

Chaminda Weerawardhana, courtesy of Open Democracy forum and web site,  27 September 2013, where the essay has attracted a few laudatory comment In light of Commonwealth support for the upcoming Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Colombo this November,  here we … Continue reading →

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January 19, 2014 · 2:50 pm

Jayantha Dhanapala’s Representations before the LLRC: Food for Thought Today

This session occurred on the 25th August 2010. the exchanges are reproduced here because they are good to think with as some of us, and Sri Lanka writ a large, consider pathways towards the reconciliation of its conflicted peoples. Chairman … Continue reading →

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January 29, 2014 · 2:04 pm

In Appreciation of Stanley Jeyaraj Tambiah: Teacher, Anthropologist, Scholar, Sri Lankan and Humanist Citizen of the World

I: “Professor Stanley Tambiah (1929-2014): A Remembrance,” by Chris Fuller, 24 January 2014, courtesy of  http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Asia&month=1401&week=d&msg=KYddiNr4WSC/Pc49X1yyng In the sixties and early seventies, students in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge had the great good fortune to be taught by four … Continue reading →

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February 20, 2014 · 2:14 pm

Nationalism, the Past and The Present: The Case of Sri Lanka

Michael Roberts  This review article was drafted in 1991 and should therefore be assessed in the light of the literature available then. In those days it took at least two years for an article to be refereed and published. The … Continue reading →

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September 6, 2011 · 1:28 pm

Forbidden Fruits? Niromi de Soyza under Scrutiny

Michael Roberts, courtesy of http://www.groundviews.org, where the article appeared earlier  under a slightly different title The literary world is now poised on the brink wondering if the Tamil Tigress (Allen & Unwin, 2011) is going to join Forbidden Love (Random House, … Continue reading →

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November 7, 2011 · 11:32 pm

Education and its (dis)contents:a critique of state policy on education and a call to action

Sivamohan Sumathy, from The Island, 2 November 2011 “Education is not an undertaking of A about B; it is not an undertaking of A for/on behalf of B; it is an undertaking of A and B together.”This is a paraphrase … Continue reading →

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