Category: Polity

Pravada Vol.8 No.3

PEACE WATCH Jayadeva Uyangoda 03 THE RHETORIC OF IMPOTENCE Adrian Wijemanne 10 ‘BENDING’ THE RULES Kalpana Sharma 12 SHAMING OF SHIROMI Jani de Silva 13 STORIES ACROSS THE DECADES 16 WOMEN’S BODIES AND CASTE TABOOS Selvy Thiruchandran 18 FAIR AND FIT, LOVELY AND SLIM Minari Fernando 21 WOMEN IN WAR Nicola Palmer 23 DECONSTRUCTING CULTURE… Continue reading Pravada Vol.8 No.3

Pravada Vol.8 No.1 & 2 (Double Issue)

PEACE WATCH Jayadeva Uyangda 03 LOOKING BACK AT MOMENTS OF ‘PEACE’ 09 TIGERS,TAXES,AND THE TAMILS Muttukrishna Sarvananthan 11 GUJARAT AND THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN INDIA Rohini Hensman 13 INDIA’S HOUSE DIVIDED Radha Kumar 17 SRI LANKA: NEO-LIBERALISM Lionel Bopage 21 THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE IN THE WORLD Salman Rushdie 28 POVERTY REDUCTION AND GENDER 29… Continue reading Pravada Vol.8 No.1 & 2 (Double Issue)

Pravada Vol.7 No.10 & 11 (Double Issue)

THE PEACE PROCESS,PEOPLE AND CIVIL SOCIETY Jayadeva Uyangoda 03 PEACE IN SRI LANKA Jayadeva Uyangoda 07 MOU,SPOILERS AND THE INTERIM PROCESS Sumanasiri Liyanage 10 THE NAZIFICATION OF ISRAEL Aijaz Ahmad 12 PONGU THAMIZH Rajan Philips 17 SRI LANKA’S BUDGET 2002 Muttukrishna Sarvananthan 20 FEMINISM,WOMEN’S ACTIVISM AND CAT’S EYE Sumathy Sivamohan 26 WHAT IS POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY?… Continue reading Pravada Vol.7 No.10 & 11 (Double Issue)

Pravada Vol.7 No.8 & 9 (Double Issue)

FOCUS ON PEACE SRI LANKA:A PRAGMATIC PEACE AGENDA 01 SRI LANKA’S PEACE PROCESS Jayadeva Uyangoda 04 PEACE:A LONG WAY TO GO S.I.Keethaponculan 08 PEACE:FROM ILLUSION TO REALITY Adrian Wijemanne 11 OBSTACLES TO THE PEACE PROCESS V.S.Nadarajah 15 PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA Rohini Hensman 16 WOMEN AND THE PEACE PROCESS 22 THE PALESTINIAN VISION OF PEACE… Continue reading Pravada Vol.7 No.8 & 9 (Double Issue)

Pravada Vol.7 No.7

AFTER THE ELECTIONS 01 WAS WOMEN’S VOTE THE SECRET WEAPON? 04 THE WORLD CAN’T BE SO EASILY DIVIDED Amartya Sen 06 LIBERALISATION AND POLITICAL DECAY David Dunham & Sisira Jayasuriya 07 A SOCIAL COST OF ‘WAR FOR PEACE’ Muttukrishna Saravanathan 15 CONFLICT RESOLUTION THEORIES Ranjith Wijesingha 17 PARTITION AS AN OPTION Sumanasiri Liyanage 21 TRADE:GENDER-BLIND… Continue reading Pravada Vol.7 No.7

Pravada Vol.7 No.4

NOTES AND COMMENTS 04 LAND OF THE DISPLACED V.Suryanarayan 05 THE IMF AND CIVIL WAR IN SRI LANKA: Muttukrishna Sarvanathan 07 THE DRAFT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW Mario Gomez 14 AN OVERVIEW OF RITUAL THEORIES Premakumara De Silva 19 BOOK REVIEWS GENDER & POLITICS Jayadeva Uyangoda 23 GREAT DAYS, GREAT READ! Lakmali Gunawardena 25 THE MAKING… Continue reading Pravada Vol.7 No.4

Pravada Vol.7 No.3

THE WORK OF MONKS  BUDDHIST MONKS AND ETHNIC POLITICS H.L. Senevirane 04 REVIEW OF ‘THE WORK OF KINGS’ Bhikkhu Bodhi 09 AN ARMY OF MONKS? Nirupama Subramanian 10 CHILD ORDINATIONS AND THE RIGHTs OF CHILDREN Gananath Obeysekere 12 LINKING PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT IN SRI LANKA N.Shanmugaratnam 14 THE BRETTON WOODS INSTITUTIONS AND FOOD SECURITY Saman… Continue reading Pravada Vol.7 No.3

Pravada Vol.7 No.2

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 SINHALESE-MUSLIM RIOTS OF 1915 05 CAPACITY BUILDING,ACCOUNTABILITY,AND HUMANITARIANISM Jennifer Hyndman and Malathi de Alwis 07 THE PERFECT WINDOW Gopalkrishna Gandhi 11 DR. S.A. WICKREMASINGHE Premlal Kumarasiri 13 FOCUS ON CRICKET CRICKET WITH A PLOT Suvendrini Perera 17 SHOWING THE FLAG AND RUNNING THE GAUNTLET Michael Roberts 25 CRICKET AS GLOBAL AND… Continue reading Pravada Vol.7 No.2

Pravada Vol.7 No.1

SOME PARAMETERS FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT Laksiri Fernando 03 DEVELOPMENT AS A HOLISTIC PROCESS W.D. Lakshman 05 BUILDING INDUSTRIAL CAPABILITY IN SRI LANKA G. Chris Rodrigo 12 CALIFORNIA ELECTRICITY DEBACLE Kumar David 15 GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PLANETARY RITUALS Sasanka Perera 18 TAKE-OFF INTO THE NOOSEPHERE 20 SOCIAL WELFARE IN SRI LANKA Nimal Sandaratna… Continue reading Pravada Vol.7 No.1