By Uditha Devapriya If recent Justice Ministry reports are anything to go by, over a million cases are pending in Sri Lanka. The country’s judge to...
By Uditha Devapriya Speaking at an awards ceremony on Wednesday, January 3, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that the government would be deploying a Navy vessel to...
By Uditha Devapriya Shanti Jayewardene’s fascinating study of Geoffrey Bawa discusses how art, culture, and knowledge have long been dominated by Western narratives and discourses. She...
By Uditha Devapriya Over the last two years I have been travelling to various parts of the country, trying to make sense of how rural communities...
By Uditha Devapriya On Tuesday, December 5, the French Embassy screened Vaishnavee at the National Film Corporation, the last in a series of cultural items commemorating...
By Uditha Devapriya At this year’s Convocation, the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) honoured the late Jayantha Dhanapala “for his invaluable contribution to diplomacy and...
By Uditha Devapriya At a recent BCIS seminar on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a former Ambassador suggested that the Arab world should form a common front. He...
By Uditha Devapriya Interactions are about connections. Connections are not always about commonalities. After all, it is not just commonalities that are celebrated, it is also...
By Uditha Devapriya “When I am thirty, she will be forty-five. When I am sixty, she will be seventy-five.” “Candida”, George Bernard Shaw Last week I...
Some more reflections on secularism By Uditha Devapriya When I wrote that I felt discussions about secularism seemed inadequate, I did not mean that we weren’t...