Category: Polity

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 SRI LANKA: NOT SIMPLY AN ETHNIC CONFLICT Ram Manikkalingam 04 RE-BRANDING TOURISM IN SRI LANKA Muttukrishna Sarvananthan 05 PLAYERS’ ASSOCIATIONS AND LABOUR STRUGGLES Janaka Biyanwila 08 BOOK REVIEWS  COMMUNITY,GENDER AND VIOLENCE Rohini Hensman 10 TALES OF FAILURE AND SUCCESS Chandra Chari 13 WHAT’S IN THE “FULL OPTION”? Kanishka Goonewardena 14 GEHAN… Continue reading Pravada Vol.6 No.11

AFTER THE PALIAMENTARY POLLS 01 WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT 06 GENERAL ELECTIONS 2000 Sunil Bastian 08 THE INNER COURTYARD Jayadeva Uyangoda 14 THE MINORITIES AND THE CITIZENSHIP ACT I.D.S. Weerawardena 20 ANIL’S GHOST: A FLIPPANT GESTURE Qadri Ismail 24 IN DEFENSE OF HUMANISTIC WAY OF KNOWING Radhika Coomaraswamy 29 IN DEFERENCE OF DEMOCRACY Rohini Hensman 31… Continue reading Pravada Vol.6 No.9 & 10 (Double Issue)

POLITICS OF APHASIA Yolanda Foster 04 THE SHRINE OF INNOCENTS Indika Bulankulame 06 DISRUPTING THE POSTCOLONIAL SEXUAL CONTRACT Criket Keating 08 ASHIS NANDY AND STRANGE ENCOUNTERS C.S. Dattatreya 13 NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION Jayadeva Uyangoda 20 IN THE NAME OF GOD Mangalika de Silva 28 THE BALANGODA MAN Sankajaya Nanayakkara 33 INDO-SRI LANKA FREE TRADE… Continue reading Pravada Vol.6 No.7 & 8 (Double Issue)

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 SRI LANKA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Jayadeva Uyangoda 05 WOMEN AND THE MILLENIUM Radhika Coomaraswamy 09 HISTORY AS DYNAMITE Michael Roberts 11 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND SECURITY N.Ram 14 THE FEMALE CITIZEN Sunila Abeysekera 19 WORLD TRADE AND WORKER’S RIGHTS Rohini Hensman 23 RIGHTS OF THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED Laksiri Fernando 31 GEORGE… Continue reading Pravada Vol.6 No.6

TRIBUTES TO NEELAN NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 WHEN WILL IT ALL END? Kethesh Loganathan 05 A TRIBUTE FROM SSA 06 A FEMINIST SALUTE 07 A TRIBUTE FROM INDIA 08 NEELAN AND MULTICULTURALISM 09 TRIBUTE FROM CRM 10 A TAMIL WHO DISSENTED Pradeep Jeganathan 11 A POLITICAL TRIBUTE Jayadeva Uyangoda 12 A PERSON OF THE HUMANITY… Continue reading Pravada Vol.6 No.5

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 SRI LANKA- AN ONGOING TRAGEDY Dilip Simeon 05 FOCUS ON CRICKET SEAMING TURFS Michael Roberts 06 THE THREE CYCLES OF SRI LANKAN CRICKET Ajith Samaranayake 09 BANGLES TO THE CAPTAIN! 11 THE WORLD CUP-WINNERS AND LOSERS Colvin Karunaratne 12 CRICKET IN GLOBALIZATION Mike Marquee 13 TO SELL, AT ANY COST Kalpana… Continue reading Pravada Vol.6 No.4

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 TAMIL NATIONALISM AND THE SINHALESE Hector Abhayavardhana 05 COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN THE PLANTATIONS 12 LEARNING TO BE POLITICAL C.S. Dattatreya 15 GENDER ISSUES THE MORAL MOTHER SYNDROME Malathi de Alwis 17 SRI LANKAN WOMEN’S HDIs Kanchana N. Ruwanpura 21 AFTER VICTIMHOOD Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake 25 QUOTAS FOR WOMEN IN ELECTIONS Devanesan Nesiah… Continue reading Pravada Vol.6 No.2 & 3 (Double Issue)

NOTES AND COMMENTS 04 VOILENCE AND THE WAYAMBA ELECTION 06 ON THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO Eric Hobsbawn 08 THE FUTILITY OF COMMON SENSE: AN ESSAY ON AHIMSA Dilip Simeon 15 THE NATIONALIST SECESSIONIST GUERILLA PHENOMENON: A REJOINDER Purnaka L. de Silva 22 THE OPIATE OF ONE-DAY CRICKET: HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER David Dunham and Sisira… Continue reading Pravada Vol.6 No.1

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 FOCUS ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS  EMERGING ECONOMIES IN A SEA OF GLOBAL FINANCE Paul A. Volker 06 THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM George Soros 11 THE NEW CHALLENGE G.Chris Rodrigo 13 THE EXTRA-ECONOMY OF THE ASIAN ECONOMIC CRISI Janaka Biyanwala 19 IS ALL SO WELL WITH THE ECONOMY AND WITH RURAL… Continue reading Pravada Vol.5 No.10 & 11 (Double Issue)

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 WOMEN WORKER & TWENTY YEARS OF LIBERALIZATION IN SRI LANKA W.D.Lakshman 04 UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AFTER FIFTY YEARS Ashley Halpe 10 NATION-STATE AND SECURITY Jayadeva Uyangoda 15 NATIVISM,ORIENTALISM AND THE LEFT Valentine M. Moghadam 19 THE NATIONALIST SECESSIONIST GUERILLA PHENOMENON Adrian Wijemanne 23 LTTE:SHIFT IN THE INTERNATIONAL OPINION Asbjorn Eide 28 IN… Continue reading Pravada Vol.5 No.9