Category: Polity

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 Special Section on “For a Non-Nuclear South Asia” THE END OF IMAGINATION Arundhati Roy 06 GENOCIDAL MENTALITY Ashis Nandy 15 NUCLEAR POWER AND HUMAN SECURITY Itty Abraham 17 VIOLENCE IN ELECTIONS Jayadeva Uyangoda 21 FROM ETHNIC CONFLICT TO DIRTY WAR Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake 24 MASS BURIALS AT CHEMMANY 31 CRM TRIBUTE TO… Continue reading Pravada Vol.5 No.8

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 CHARLES ABEYSEKERA 06 SOME REFLECTIONS ON VIOLENCE Charles Abeysekera 08 SRI LANKA AT FIFTY: Jayadeva Uyangoda 10 LOOKING AHEAD WITH ANXIETY Eqbal Ahmad 13 ASIA’S CULTURAL VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS Basil Fenando 15 CIVIL SOCIETY IN EMERGING DEMOCRACIES Kamal Hossain 19 RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION: Rohini Hensman 20 FROM AUTHENTICITY TO HYBRIDITY:… Continue reading Pravada Vol.5 No.7

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 SRI LANKA’S CRISIS AND IT’S COMPLEXITIES Jayadeva Uyangoda 05 SPECIAL SECTION:PLANTATIONS IN CRISIS  TEA PLANTATIONS:A LONG-TERM STRATEGY P.P.Manikam 10 FUTURE OF TEA ESTATES David Dunham 13 TEA TALK Valentine Daniel 16 WAGE INCREASE FOR PLANTATION WORKERS 26 VIJAYA KUMARATUNGA ASSASSINATION REPORT Kishali Pinto Jayawardana 28 FREE EDUCATION Vs. REFORM Adrian Wijemanne… Continue reading Pravada Vol.5 No.6

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 IN A LUSH,TORMENTED LAND Equal Ahamad 06 WHO ARE THE TAMILS Pradeep Jeganathan 09 AFTER DEVOLUTION:PROTECTING LOCAL MINORITIES Darani Rajasingham-Senanayake 12 HOW NORMAL IS NORMAL? Kumudini Samuel 16 JAFFNA:CURRENT SITUATION AND PROTECTS-UTHR 20 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Devanesan Nesiah 23 ANNIE BESANTS MANY LIVES Kumari Jayawardena 25 DIANA’S DEATH AND THE BRITISH R.L.Stirrat… Continue reading Pravada Vol.5 No.4 & 5 (Double Issue)

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 INDIA’S POLITICAL ORDER Jayadeva Uyangoda 06 HALF-WAY TO FREEDOM Eqbal Ahmad 08 RACISM DISGUISED IN SPACE Sumanasiri Liyanage 14 JAYASIKURUI Adrian Wijemanne 19 STATE-MARKET RELATIONS IN LATE DEVELOPMENT N.Shanmugaratnam 21 BOOK REVIEW  32 DOCUMENTS  i.CRM STATEMENT 34 ii.PROTEST AGAINST PROPOSED CULTURAL BILLS: 35

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 THE DRAFT OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION Rohan Edirrisinha & Deepika Udagama 05 THE SINHALA KADUWA Darini Rajasingham Senanayake 15 ELECTRONIC MEDIA. MEDIA CONTROL AND THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS Jayadeva Uyangoda 20 BOOK REVIEW:RE-ASSESSING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Sasanka Perera 24 THE SUPREME COURT VERDICT ON BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL 27 LETTER  NOT SICK BUT SICK… Continue reading Pravada Vol.5 No.2

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 LOCAL BODIES AS DOMAINS OF POWER Jayadeva Uyangoda 05 POLITICAL VIOLENCE, STRUCTURAL AMNESIA Sasanka Perera 11 GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNICATIONS Robert W. McChesny 14 CRICKET: BATTING AGAINST THE BREAK Qadri Ismail 16 SECULARISM AND MUSLIMNESS Mahl 27 REVIEW ESSAY  Darini Rajasingham 29 DOCUMENTS   i. Media 31 ii. Elctoral Voilence 33

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 MEDIA COMMITTEE REPORTS-AN OVERVIEW Ravi John 05 REPORT ON BROADBASING THE OWNERSHIP OF ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS OF CEYLON LTD. 09 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON REFORMS TO LAWS AFFECTING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 10 GENDER ISSUES  IENNE GOONEWARDENA:”LA PASIONARIA” OF SRI LANKA Kumari Jayawardena 16 SELINA PERERA-THE FORGOTTEN SOCIALIST MILITANT Hector Abeywardena 19… Continue reading Pravada Vol.4 No.10 & 11 (Double Issue)

NOTES AND COMMENTS 04 STATE AND NATION:THE NATION STATE AND THE STATE OF OUR NATION Adrian Wijemanne 06 TIGER WOMEN AND THE QUESTION OF WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION Radhika Coomaraswamy 08 DECENTRALIZATION TO THE GRASS-ROOTS:INDIA’S PANCHAYATI RAJ Tressie Leitan 11 A NOVELIST SILENCED 15 SINHALAS AND EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ORIGINS AND SCHOLARSS FROM GAGALAND Sasanka Perera 16 READING “POLITICS… Continue reading Pravada Vol.4 No.9

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 THE POWER CRISIS:NATIONALIST MYTHS AND POLITICS Sunil Bastian 05 THE SRI LANKAN ETHNIC CRISIS IN THE LIGHT OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM Ameer Ali 09 IMPRESSIONS FROM A VISIT TO JAFFNA 12 TOKEN STRIKE IN THE PLANATION-THE AFTERMATH Romila Thapar 14 THE PAST IN THE PRESENT 17 DOCUMENTS i)AGAINST THE POWER TO CONTROL… Continue reading Pravada vol.4 No.8