By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha It is 32 years today since the body of Richard de Zoysa was washed ashore, after his abduction by government forces. This...
By Uditha Devapriya Review of Sandya Salgado’s Not Just My Good Karma 2019, Rs. 2,500, 326 pages One of the best anthropological studies of advertising ever...
By Ifham Nizam ‘The Ecology and Biogeography of Sri Lanka: A Context for Freshwater Fishes’ by Dr. Rohan Pethiyagoda and Hiranya Sudasinghe is a guide to...
By Uditha Devapriya Assessments of Sri Lanka’s history often depict the period from 1947 to 1956 as an Eden before the Fall. Partly, this was owing...
By Susantha Hewa Religion is as old as the human race. It is no static entity although we have been made to feel that it is....
By Uditha Devapriya In Sri Lank, as in every other colonial outpost, resistance to foreign domination predated Western intervention by well more than two centuries. Surviving...
… the walrus said, “Let’s talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, And cabbages and kings…” By Ransiri Menike Silva There were...
By Uditha Devapriya For the oppressed masses of the Third World, the establishment of UNCTAD and the proposal for a New International Economic Order marked the...
BY Srilal Miththapala From time immemorial the female form has been exploited for diverse reasons, to achieve a wide variety of outcomes by various cultures, individuals,...
Dr. Roland Silva Memorial Lecture: By Uditha Devapriya On Thursday, 27 January, Prof. Romila Thapar will deliver the Dr Roland Silva Memorial Lecture to the National...