කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙහි ශාස්ත්‍ර පීඨය මඟින් සංවිධානය කරන්නට යෙදුනු විද්වත් සංවාද මාලාවක පළමු දිගහැරීම ලෙස කොළඹ කතිකා පළමු වැඩසටහන 2022 ජුනි මස 10 වන දින කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ ශාස්ත්‍ර පීඨයේදී පැවැත්විණි. “තීව්‍ර සමාජ අර්බුද සහිත වකවානුවක සමාජීය විද්‍යා හා මානව ශාස්ත්‍රයන්හි කාර්යභාරය” යන තේමාව පාදක කරගනිමින් මෙම සාකච්ඡාව සිදු වූ අතර සංවාදය මෙහෙයවීම මහාචාර්ය නිර්මාල් රංජිත් දේවසිරි… Continue reading කොළඹ කතිකා 1: තීව්‍ර සමාජ අර්බුද සහිත වකවානුවක සමාජීය විද්‍යා හා මානව ශාස්ත්‍රයන්හි කාර්යභාරය
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“We condemn the violent assault on peaceful protestors” — Academics Abroad
We, the undersigned academics who work on Sri Lanka and South Asia more broadly, fully condemn the violent assault on peaceful protestors in Colombo by the Sri Lankan security forces on 22 July 2022. We are aghast at reports that five of the protestors were abducted and tortured by security force personnel; violently beaten, forced… Continue reading “We condemn the violent assault on peaceful protestors” — Academics Abroad
‘Weeks when decades happen’ – B. Skanthakumar
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”, as Lenin never actually said. The estrangement between the regime-state in Sri Lanka and its core constituencies, while widening over the course of the pandemic years, became outright antagonism in a matter of weeks in the first half of 2022. This is… Continue reading ‘Weeks when decades happen’ – B. Skanthakumar
විසම්මුතික ස්මරණය සහ ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික පුරවැසිභාවය: සන්ධ්‍යා එක්නැලිගොඩ සහ යුක්තිය සඳහා ඇගේ අරගලය – චූලනී කොඩිකාර
පරිවර්තනය: රදිකා ගුණරත්න සන්ධ්‍යා එක්නැලිගොඩ, 2022 ජනවාරි 25.[1] මාධ්‍යවේදියකු, කාටුන් ශිල්පියකු සහ දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාධරයකු වූ ප්‍රගීත් එක්නැලිගොඩ 2010 ජනවාරි 24 දා රාත්‍රී 8.30 ත් 9 ත් අතර කාලය තුළ අතුරුදන් වූයේ ඔහුගේ මිතුරන් හෝ පවුල නොදන්නා යම්කිසි අයකු හමුවීමට යමින් සිටියදී ය. අතුරුදන් වූ දිනයේ ප්‍රගීත් උදෑසනම නිවසින් පිටත්ව ගොස් ඇති අතර, රාත්‍රී 9.30 වන… Continue reading විසම්මුතික ස්මරණය සහ ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික පුරවැසිභාවය: සන්ධ්‍යා එක්නැලිගොඩ සහ යුක්තිය සඳහා ඇගේ අරගලය – චූලනී කොඩිකාර
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s election: Results and Prospects for Democratic Revival in Sri Lanka – Devaka Gunawardena
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s ascent to the Executive Presidency represents a system in utter decay. But the unsteady structure will not topple with one, final push. Instead, we have seen that after ousting Gotabaya Rajapaksa, protestors have encountered a far more elaborate and complex state machinery behind the President himself, much as Antonio Gramsci discovered the “trenches… Continue reading Ranil Wickremesinghe’s election: Results and Prospects for Democratic Revival in Sri Lanka – Devaka Gunawardena
The Executive Presidency must go!
The July 9th uprising is a revolutionary moment. The people have spoken, in their millions, in the midst of a grave economic collapse, demanding change and clamouring for greater democracy. They pointed out the dire failure of the political leadership at the top. Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled overseas, without resigning, holding the country to ransom; and… Continue reading The Executive Presidency must go!
The Solution to the Current Crisis is to Establish a Government Conscious of Workers’ and Farmers’ Rights – Ceylon Plantation Workers’ (‘Red Flag’) Union
[i]The Sri Lankan nation is facing the worst financial, economic, and socio-political crisis in 74 years since independence. The entire world is aware of the extreme economic, financial, social, and political turmoil that the citizens and working people of Sri Lanka are going through and the extreme difficulties they are facing. Following the resignation letters… Continue reading The Solution to the Current Crisis is to Establish a Government Conscious of Workers’ and Farmers’ Rights – Ceylon Plantation Workers’ (‘Red Flag’) Union
We are all poster-makers! Images from Gotagogama, Galle Face, April to May 2022 – Sharni Jayawardena
Sharni Jayawardena’s collage of photographs from Galle Face Green in Colombo are a testament to the vibrancy and creativity of the protests against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family, before the violence unleashed there and elsewhere on 9th May 2022. Her lens captures the energy and passion of Sri Lankans across social classes and ages who flocked… Continue reading We are all poster-makers! Images from Gotagogama, Galle Face, April to May 2022 – Sharni Jayawardena
We are “Our Own Crisis”: Locating the ‘Crisis in Education’– Jagath Weerasinghe
This is the text of a keynote speech delivered at the Undergraduate Research Congress of the Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya held on 31 May 2022. Making a keynote speech at this conference themed “Crisis in Education and Crisis as Education” at a moment of rapid and strange political change requires me to take… Continue reading We are “Our Own Crisis”: Locating the ‘Crisis in Education’– Jagath Weerasinghe
What Does Increasing the Participation of Women in the Economy Mean? Devaka Gunawardena
Experts keen to endorse the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) tentative programme for Sri Lanka have attempted to highlight the supposedly progressive aspects of its intervention to try and rescue the country from economic collapse. The IMF’s prescriptions for structural economic reform in Sri Lanka will likely include “increasing female labour force participation”. On the face… Continue reading What Does Increasing the Participation of Women in the Economy Mean? Devaka Gunawardena