PALESTINE AND US A VOICE FROM PALESTINE- M. A. Nuhman GAZA: INTO THE ABYSS- Devaka Gunawardena SRI LANKA MUST ACT IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE! IF I MUST DIE- Refaat Alareer IN 2024'S ELECTIONS, LESSONS FROM 2015- Devaka Gunawardena WHY 2024 WILL NOT BE 2015 REDUX-...

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Editorial 2023 Budget: False Promises at the Expense of Women and Working People - Feminist Collective for Economic Justice ‘The Writing Was on the Wall’: Debt Distress and Ways Forward in Sri Lanka - Jayati Ghosh The Election of Ranil Wickremesinghe: Reaction and...

Editorial The #GotaGoHome Protest Movement: Significance, Potential, and Challenges - Jayadeva Uyangoda Our Broken Nation Lies Before Us - From the Galle Face Aragala Bhoomiya “People Are Starting To See That We Were Right” - Two University Students interviewed by...

Editorial Polity Turns 30! ‘Executive Authoritarianism’ as Sri Lanka’s New Political Normal since COVID19* - Jayadeva Uyangoda US Withdrawal from Afghanistan and Its Impact on Sri Lankan Democracy - Pradeep Peiris Reflections from a State Quarantine Centre during...

Editorial: Environment & Society in Sri Lanka, pp. 02 – 03 Crossing Borders: Sovereign Life and Sovereignty – Sivamohan Sumathy , pp. 04-07 Beyond Numbers: Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 Response, Politics and People - Ramya Kumar, pp. 8 - 13 April Theses with 2020 Vision -...

EDITORIAL: 1977 & After: 40 Years of the Open Economy in Sri Lanka GUEST EDITORIAL: A Comment on Neoliberalism in Sri Lanka- Prof. W. D. Lakshman THE NEOLIBERAL TURN IN SRI LANKA: GLOBAL FINANCIAL FLOWS AND CONSTRUCTION AFTER 1977 - Ahilan Kadirgamar “KOLAMBATA...

EDITORIAL: THE PROMISE OF JANUARY 8th IN PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC REFORMS: THE 1st PRAVADA EDITORIAL (NOVEMBER 1991) FROM GOOD GOVERNANCE TO INEPT GOVERNANCE- Jayadeva Uyangoda TAMIL NATIONALIST ACT IN THE THEATRE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE - MeeNilankco Theiventhran...

Editorial The Way We Were – Jayadeva Uyangoda and Pradeep Peiris Secular Thoughts – K.N. Panikkar Dambulla Mosque Crisis – Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake To Have More Women in Politics – Rosy Senanayake Harbour Lights – Sarojini Jayawickrama A Colonial Clergyman in Sri...

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Spring Clean of Dictators History and the Enterprise of Knowledge – Amartya Sen “Protest like an Egyptian” – In Wisconsin – Judy Waters Pasqualge Lanka @ 63: The ‘Military Business Model’ – Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Right Speech and Follies and Fantasies in the...

Editorial Domestic Violence – The Rice Pot Boils Over The Punishment Is the Crime Ayodhya Verdict – Romila Thapar Appeal to Fellow Citizens If Term Limit Goes – So Must Immunity Whither Academic Freedom in Universities? – Savitri Goonesekere Susan De Silva: Feminist...

THE ROAD TO PEACE? IT WAS ELECTION TIME - Jayadeva Uyangoda FROM 'POST-WAR' TO POLITICAL SOLUTION- N. Shanmugaratnam THE 2010 GENERAL ELECTION- Pradeep Peiris RECONFIGURING PATRONAGE POLITICS- Minna Thaheer EMERGENCY RELAXED- From our Legal Correspondent CULT OF...

ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WITH LITTLE SPACE FOR CHANGE NO RETURN TO THE GALLOWS- CRM Opposes Death Penalty HANG THE DEATH PENALTY! CREEPING TALIBANIZATION? BUDDHISM DURING COLONIAL RULE- Terry C. Muck THE MOON IN THE WATER- John Stifler POVERTY AND PEOPLE'S...

CONVERSATIONS WITH ROMILA THAPAR- Kalpana Sharma REMEMBERING A SOCIALIST PIONEER: SELINA PERERA- Charles Wesley Ervin FEMALE LEADERS IN SOUTH ASIA- Devanesan Nesiah FROM CAGED BIRD TO EMANCIPATED WOMAN- Sarojini Jayawickrama BERNADEEN SILVA- Suriya Wickremasinghe...

BRINGING THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT BACK? PRESIDENT OBAMA- Sankaran Krishna THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2008-PART 03- Judy Waters Pasqualge THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2008-PART 04- Judy Waters Pasqualge A WALL COMES TUMBLING DOWN- Devanesan Nesiah WORLD ECONOMIC...

SRI LANKA: A DISTANT DREAM SRI LANKA'S CONFLICT AT THE CROSSROADS- Jayadeva Uyangoda JVP SPLITS- Jayadeva Uyangoda POLLING FOR PEACE POLICIES- Pradeep Peiris ANTHROPOLOGIZING HISTORY- Premakumara de Silva POET AS WITNESS- E. V. Ramakrishnan THE US PRESIDENTIAL...

ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S SECULARISM POLITICS OF SRI LANKA IN 2007- Jayadeva Uyangoda THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2008- Judy Waters Pasqualge SHIFTING THEORIES: PARTIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HOUSEHOLD- Kanchana N. Ruwanpura OBAMA, UNGER AND I- Ram Manikkalingam A LABOUR OF...

TIME OF TROUBLE, TIME FOR READING MUCH DESPAIR, YET A LITTLE HOPE- Jayadeva Uyangoda ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK- Pradeep Peiris and Anupama M. Ranawana WHERE FUSION CANNOT WORK- FAITH AND HISTORY- Romila Thapar SPEAKING THE TRUTH TO POWER- Edward Said THE SWEET...

RIZANA NAFEEK AND THE ECONOMY SRI LANKA: BACK TO SQUARE ONE- Jayadeva Uyangoda THE CARNIVAL MAY GO ON- Jayadeva Uyangoda CASTE, TRIBE, AND THE POLITICS OF RESERVATION- Shail Mayaram BATTICALOA FIELD VISIT-MAY 2007 MUSLIMS IN SRI LANKA'S ETHNIC CONFLICT- Farzana...

CONFLICT, WAR AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE TOWARDS A NORTH-EASTERN CONSESUS- Devanesan Nesiah FROM PEACE OPTIMISM TO UNDECLARED WAR- Camilla Orjuela MIDTERM ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES- Judy Waters Pasqualge RIGHT PEOPLE, WRONG QUESTIONS- Gloria Steinem GLOBALIZATION...

ESCALATING WAR RAVIRAJ: ANOTHER ASSASSINATION KETHESH LOGANATHAN- Jayadeva Uyangoda ASSASSINATIONS AND COUNTER ASSASSINATIONS: REFLECTIONS ON THE KILLING OF KITHESH LOGANATHAN- N. Shanmugaratnam THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AID, CONFLICT, AND PEACE BUILDING IN SRI LANKA-...

A QUESTION OF GOVERNANCE SRI LANKA: DIMENSIONS OF THE CRISIS- Jayadeva Uyangoda TAKING THE DEVOLUTION DISCOURSE FORWARD- N. Sathiya Moorthy ENTER THE NEW RULING CLASS- Ajit Samaranayake PROTECTION UNDER THE NEW LAW ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE- Shyamala Gomez EVANGELICAL...

POLITICS TO PREVENT WAR SRI LANKA'S PEACE: BEYOND OLD NATIONALIST IMAGINATIONS- Jayadeva Uyangoda NO WAR, NO PEACE?- Sunil Bastian THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL MUST FUNCTION- Civil Rights Movement JVP CAN RESURRECT THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL- FAILURE CASTS DOUBTS ON ITS...

'JAW JAW' IN GENEVA SRI LANKA'S CRISIS: THE PEACE PROCESS WEARS THIN- Jayadeva Uyangoda THE RAJAPAKSE PRESIDENCY: CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PEACE PROCESS - Kumar Rupesinghe THE SINHALA PEOPLE HAVE NOT REJECTED A FEDERAL SOLUTION- Lal Wijenayake ELITE MOBILIZATION, SYMBOLIC...

SABRE RATTLINGS? P-TOMS SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT ON P-TOMS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING AFTER THE JUDGMENT ETHNIC POLITICS AND CONFLICT MUSLIM POLITICS – Fara Haniffa WOMEN SUPPORT P-TOMS VIOLENT MUSLIM MOBILIZATION IN SRI LANKA – A.R.M.Imtiyaz AFTER THE TSUNAMI – Darini...

TSUNAMI AND AFTER THREE YEARS AFTER THE CEASE FIRE- Jayadeva Uyangoda PROPOSALS FOR THE NORTH AND EAST- Sumanasiri Liyanage THE TSUNAMI TRAGEDY – Osmund Jayaratne SUPPORT RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY IN NEPAL OLD HABITS DIE HARD – Mihirini Sirisena TSUNAMI VICTIMS’...

Peace After the Tsunami: New Windows of Opportunity Post-Tsunami Recovery - Jayadeva Uyangoda After the Tsunami - Rajan Philips From Rehabilitation to Peace - Kristian Stokke and N. Shanmugaratnam The Spectre of a 'Second Tsunami' - N. Shanmugaratnam Earthquakes and...

PEACE AND RECONCILIATION? Peace Watch – Jayadeva Uyangoda Re-Working Autonomy Options – Jayadeva Uyangoda Development and Peace – Sunil Bastian ICT 4 Peace – Harinda Ranura Vidanage Puritanism and Colonialism – Jeremy Tambling Honouring Pablo Neruda – Vibha Maurya and...

SRI LANKA'S PEACE PROCESS: MORE BAD NEWS TO COME? PEACE WATCH – Jayadeva Uyangoda Sri Lanka After Elections : Continuing Uncertainty  DARWIN, MARX AND MARTIN WICKRAMASINGHE – Carlo Fonseka A RISING IN THE EAST – Malathi de Alwis INDIAN ELECTIONS – Rajan Philips INDIAN...

SRI LANKA AFTER ELECTIONS: CONTINUING UNCERTAINITY PEACE WATCH- Jayadeva Uyangoda MULTIPLE CRISES IN SRI LANKA – Kumar Rupesinghe NEED FOR A VIRTUAL ALLIANCE OF DIGITAL DIASPORAS – Harinda Ranura Vidanage GLOBALISATION, WOMEN AND WORK- Rohini Hensman SINHALA BUDDHISM,...

DIFFICULT TIMES PEACE WATCH- Jayadeva Uyangoda SRI LANKA’S PEACE PROCESS: TOWARDS PHASE II – Tyrol Fernands, Kumar Rupesinghe, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Jayadeva Uyangoda, Norbert Ropers SOMA THERO: SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS LIFE AND DEATH- Jayadeva Uyangoda THE PROPOSED...

A PLURALISTIC POLITICAL CLASS PEACE WATCH – Jayadeva Uyangoda REFLECTION ON WOMEN AND CULTURE – Amali Philips CHILD SOLDIERS IN CIVIL WAR – S.I. Keethaponcalan HEALTH AS A CATALYST FOR PEACE – Kalinga Tudor Silva BYE BYE TO HI!! – Sasanka Perera SRI LANKA 2003-...

A NEGOTIATED STALEMATE PEACE WATCH – Jayadeva Uyangoda THE INTERNATIONAL POST-CONFLICT INDUSTRY – Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake WHAT WENT WRONG? – Sumanasiri Liyanage THE DYNAMICS OF A STALEMATE – Devanesan Nesiah AFTER THE WINNING OF THE IRAQ WAR – Eric Hobsbawm JULY...

WAR IN IRAQ: ROAD MAP TO A NEW EMPIRE SRI LANKAN PROTEST ON IRAQ INVASION MESOPOTAMIA, BABYLON, THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES- Arundhati Roy A STUPID WAR – Edward Said GIVE US BACK OUR DEMOCRACY- Edward Said BOYCOTT THE DOLLAR! – Rohini Hensman PRESIDENT’S REAL GOAL IN...

One Year of Peace A Promise of Peace - Radhika Coomaraswamy Taiwan, Taliban, Taliwan? - Ram Manikkalingam Comment on the Peace Talks - Sumanasiri Liyanage Redesigning the Peace Process - Kumar Rupesinghe Ethnic Identity and Self-Determination - Devanesan Nesiah The...

THE PEACE PROCESS,PEOPLE AND CIVIL SOCIETY- Jayadeva Uyangoda PEACE IN SRI LANKA 1- Jayadeva Uyangoda PEACE IN SRI LANKA 2- Jayadeva Uyangoda MOU,SPOILERS AND THE INTERIM PROCESS- Sumanasiri Liyanage THE NAZIFICATION OF ISRAEL- Aijaz Ahmad PONGU THAMIZH- Rajan Philips...

FOCUS ON PEACE SRI LANKA: A PRAGMATIC PEACE AGENDA CEASE FIRE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY SRI LANKA’S PEACE PROCESS- Jayadeva Uyangoda PEACE: A LONG WAY TO GO- S. I. Keethaponculan PEACE: FROM ILLUSION TO REALITY- Adrian Wijemanne OBSTACLES TO THE PEACE PROCESS-...

AFTER THE ELECTIONS WAS WOMEN'S VOTE THE SECRET WEAPON? THE WORLD CAN'T BE SO EASILY DIVIDED- Amartya Sen LIBERALISATION AND POLITICAL DECAY- David Dunham & Sisira Jayasuriya A SOCIAL COST OF 'WAR FOR PEACE'- Muttukrishna Saravanathan CONFLICT RESOLUTION THEORIES-...

CRISIS AND CATASTROPHE THERE ARE MANY ISLAMS- Edward Said THE ALGEBRA OF INFINITE JUSTICE- Arundhati Roy FORTRESS AMERICA- Achin Vanaik TIME FOR SERENITY- Fidel Castro WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL- Slavaj Zizek RADICAL ISLAM AND THE IMPERIALIST ONSLAUGHT- Kumar...

CRISIS MANAGEMENT OR CRISIS ESCALATION? NOTES AND COMMENTS LAND OF THE DISPLACED- V. Suryanarayan THE IMF AND CIVIL WAR IN SRI LANKA- Muttukrishna Sarvanathan THE DRAFT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW- Mario Gomez AN OVERVIEW OF RITUAL THEORIES- Premakumara De Silva BOOK...

THE NEED FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION THE WORK OF MONKS BUDDHIST MONKS AND ETHNIC POLITICS- H.L.Senavirane REVIEW OF 'THE WORK OF KINGS'- Bhikku Bodhi AN ARMY OF MONKS?- Nirupama Subramanian CHILD ORDINATIONS AND THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN- Gananath Obeysekere LINKING PEACE AND...

ETHNIC RELATIONS LESSONS FROM MAWANELLA NOTES AND COMMENTS SINHALESE-MUSLIM RIOTS OF 1915 CAPACITY BUILDING, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND HUMANITARIANISM- Jennifer Hyndman and Malathi de Alwis THE PERFECT WINDOW- Gopalkrishna Gandhi DR. S. A. WICKEMASINGHE- Premlal Kumarasiri...

DEFEAT TALIBANIZATION OF POLITICS SOME PARAMETERS FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT- LAKSIRI FERNANDO DEVELOPMENT AS A HOLISTIC PROCESS- W. D. LAKSHMAN BUILDING INDUSTRIAL CAPABILITY IN SRI LANKA- G. CHRIS RODRIGO CALIFORNIA ELECTRICITY DEBACLE- KUMAR DAVID GLOBALIZATION AND THE...

NEGOTIATIONS BOTH SIDES STAND TO GAIN NOTES AND COMMENTS SRI LANKA: NOT SIMPLY AN ETHNIC CONFLICT- Ram Manikkalingam RE-BRANDING TOURISM IN SRI LANKA-   Muttukrishna Sarvananthan PLAYERS’ ASSOCIATIONS AND LABOUR STRUGGLES- Janaka Biyanwila BOOK REVIEWS  ...

AFTER THE PALIAMENTARY POLLS NOTES AND COMMENTS WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT GENERAL ELECTIONS 2000- Sunil Bastian THE INNER COURTYARD- Jayadeva Uyangoda THE MINORITIES AND THE CITIZENSHIP ACT- I.D.S. Weerawardena ANIL’S GHOST: A FLIPPANT GESTURE- Qadri Ismail IN DEFENSE OF...

ETHNIC QUESTION AND PA-UNP CONSENSUS NOTES AND COMMENTS POLITICS OF APHASIA- Yolanda Foster THE SHRINE OF INNOCENTS- Indika Bulankulame DISRUPTING THE POSTCOLONIAL SEXUAL CONTRACT- Criket Keating ASHIS NANDY AND STRANGE ENCOUNTERS- C.S. Dattatreya NEGOTIATIONS FOR...

SRI LANKA'S POLITICS AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NOTES AND COMMENTS SRI LANKA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY- Jayadeva Uyangoda WOMEN AND THE MILLENIUM- Radhika Coomaraswamy HISTORY AS DYNAMITE- Michael Roberts NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND SECURITY- N.Ram THE FEMALE CITIZEN-...

TRIBUTES TO NEELAN NEELAN AND THE UNFINISHED PEACE PROJECT NOTES AND COMMENTS WHEN WILL IT ALL END?- Kethesh Loganathan A TRIBUTE FROM SSA A FEMINIST SALUTE A TRIBUTE FROM INDIA NEELAN AND MULTICULTURALISM TRIBUTE FROM CRM A TAMIL WHO DISSENTED- Pradeep Jeganathan A...

CRICKET- THERE IS POLITICS IN IT! NOTES AND COMMENTS SRI LANKA- AN ONGOING TRAGEDY- Dilip Simeon FOCUS ON CRICKET SEAMING TURFS- Michael Roberts THE THREE CYCLES OF SRI LANKAN CRICKET- Ajith Samaranayake BANGLES TO THE CAPTAIN! THE WORLD CUP-WINNERS AND LOSERS- Colvin...

MORE ON ELECTIONS AND POLITICS NOTES AND COMMENTS TAMIL NATIONALISM AND THE SINHALESE- Hector Abhayavardhana COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN THE PLANTATIONS LEARNING TO BE POLITICAL- C.S. Dattatreya GENDER ISSUES THE MORAL MOTHER SYNDROME- Malathi de Alwis SRI LANKAN WOMEN’S...

ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRACY : BACK TO THE BASICS NOTES AND COMMENTS VIOLENCE AND THE WAYAMBA ELECTION ON THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO- Eric Hobsbawn THE FUTILITY OF COMMON SENSE: AN ESSAY ON AHIMSA - Dilip Simeon THE NATIONALIST SECESSIONIST GUERILLA PHENOMENON: A REJOINDER-...

EAST ASIAN CRISIS: SRI LANKA IN A GLOBAL CRISIS NOTES AND COMMENTS FOCUS ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS  FOCUS ON THE ASIAN CRISIS EMERGING ECONOMIES IN A SEA OF GLOBAL FINANCE- Paul A. Volker THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM- George Soros THE NEW CHALLENGE- G.Chris Rodrigo...

ABUSE IN POLITICAL DEBATE NOTES AND COMMENTS WOMEN WORKER & TWENTY YEARS OF LIBERALIZATION IN SRI LANKA- W. D. Lakshman UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AFTER FIFTY YEARS- Ashley Halpe NATION-STATE AND SECURITY- Jayadeva Uyangoda BOOK REVIEW: NATIVISM,ORIENTALISM AND THE...

ELECTIONS, SECURITY AND DEMOCRACY NOTES AND COMMENTS Special Section on “For a Non-Nuclear South Asia” THE END OF IMAGINATION- Arundhati Roy GENOCIDAL MENTALITY- Ashis Nandy NUCLEAR POWER AND HUMAN SECURITY- Itty Abraham VIOLENCE IN ELECTIONS- Jayadeva Uyangoda FROM...

THE QUESTION OF POLITICAL SPACE NOTES AND COMMENTS CHARLES ABEYSEKERA SOME REFLECTIONS ON VIOLENCE- Charles Abeysekera SRI LANKA AT FIFTY- Jayadeva Uyangoda LOOKING AHEAD WITH ANXIETY- Eqbal Ahmad ASIA’S CULTURAL VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS- Basil Fenando CIVIL SOCIETY IN...

AFTER THE JUBILEE NOTES AND COMMENTS SRI LANKA’S CRISIS AND IT’S COMPLEXITIES- Jayadeva Uyangoda SPECIAL SECTION:PLANTATIONS IN CRISIS  TEA PLANTATIONS:A LONG-TERM STRATEGY- P.P.Manikam FUTURE OF TEA ESTATES- David Dunham TEA TALK- Valentine Daniel WAGE INCREASE FOR...

ONCE AGAIN, IMPASSE NOTES AND COMMENTS IN A LUSH,TORMENTED LAND - Eqbal Ahamad WHO ARE THE TAMILS- Pradeep Jeganathan AFTER DEVOLUTION:PROTECTING LOCAL MINORITIES- Darani Rajasingham-Senanayake HOW NORMAL IS NORMAL?- Kumudini Samuel JAFFNA: CURRENT SITUATION AND...

FREE EDUCATION VS. REFORM NOTES AND COMMENTS INDIA’S POLITICAL ORDER- Jayadeva Uyangoda HALF-WAY TO FREEDOM-Eqbal Ahmad RACISM DISGUISED IN SPACE- Sumanasiri Liyanage JAYASIKURUI- Adrian Wijemanne STATE-MARKET RELATIONS IN LATE DEVELOPMENT- N. Shanmugaratnam BOOK...

PA: END  OF THE ROAD FOR REFORMISM? NOTES AND COMMENTS THE DRAFT OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION- Rohan Edirrisinha & Deepika Udagama THE SINHALA KADUWA- Darini Rajasingham Senanayake ELECTRONIC MEDIA. MEDIA CONTROL AND THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS- Jayadeva Uyangoda BOOK...

LOCAL ELECTIONS; THINKING AND ACTING UN-LOCALLY NOTES AND COMMENTS LOCAL BODIES AS DOMAINS OF POWER- Jayadeva Uyangoda POLITICAL VIOLENCE, STRUCTURAL AMNESIA- Sasanka Perera GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNICATIONS- Robert W. McChesny CRICKET: BATTING AGAINST THE BREAK-...

FOR A DEMOCRATIC MEDIA NOTES AND COMMENTS MEDIA COMMITTEE REPORTS-AN OVERVIEW- Ravi John REPORT ON BROADBASING THE OWNERSHIP OF ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS OF CEYLON LTD. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON REFORMS TO LAWS AFFECTING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION GENDER ISSUES WOMEN AND...

TO BREAK A STALEMATE NOTES AND COMMENTS STATE AND NATION:THE NATION STATE AND THE STATE OF OUR NATION- Adrian Wijemanne TIGER WOMEN AND THE QUESTION OF WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION- Radhika Coomaraswamy DECENTRALIZATION TO THE GRASS-ROOTS:INDIA’S PANCHAYATI RAJ- Tressie...

THE PARADOXES OF WAR AND PEACE NOTES AND COMMENTS THE POWER CRISIS:NATIONALIST MYTHS AND POLITICS- Sunil Bastian THE SRI LANKAN ETHNIC CRISIS IN THE LIGHT OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM- Ameer Ali IMPRESSIONS FROM A VISIT TO JAFFNA TOKEN STRIKE IN THE PLANATION-THE AFTERMATH-...

GIVING PEACE THE TOP PRIORITY NOTES AND COMMENTS THE CONTOURS OF A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT- V. Rudrakmaran PEACE AFTER THE MILITARY OCCUPATION- Rev. Dr. S. J. Emmanuel WHAT REMAINS INDIAN ELECTIONS AND SRI LANKA PLANTATION STRIKE- P. P.Manikam HILDA WESTBOOK KULARATNE-...

FROM PACKAGE TO LEGAL DRAFT: STEP IN WHICH DIRECTION NOTES AND COMMENTS NGOS,HATE POLITICS & QUESTIONS OF DEMOCRACY- Jayadeva Uyangoda THE NGO BOGEY- Kumari Jayawardena NEW TIMES & THE LEFT- Sudip Ray GENDER ISSUES EDITORIAL NOTES TOWARDS A DISCUSSION OF...

Sri Lanka : FROM WAR TO POLITICS NOTES AND COMMENTS HATRED AND REVENGE KILLINGS-Purnaka L. De Silva PERCEPTIONS OF TRADITIONS- Sasanka Perera THE TRAGEDY OF THE ‘BORDER’ VILLAGES- Kumudini Samuel STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY A ROLE FOR LAWYERS- Neelan Tiruchelvam POLITICS...

NATIONALISM IN MODERATION? NOTES AND COMMENTS DEVOLUTION DEBATE: PRSPECTIVES FROM NORTH- Rev. Dr. S. J. Emmanuel SRI LANKA: ISSUES OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION- Jayadeva Uyangoda CHANDRIKA’S FEDERAL PACKAGE- Partha S. Ghosh A SRI LANKAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL...

AND NOW THE HARD WORK HAS TO BEGIN NOTES AND COMMENTS SUBALTERN CONFERENCE- Quadri Ismail THE PACKAGE AND ITS POLITICS- Jayadeva Uyangoda LIBERATION AND OTHER MISPERSPECTIONS- Kenneth Mulder HOME-LANDS, BORDER ZONES AND REFUGEES- Darini Rajasingham ON UNLEASHING THE...

A DHARMA YUDDHA? NOTES AND COMMENTS JUSTICE OR REVENGE- Sunila Abeysekera AI ON COMMISSIONS PROBING DISAPPEARENCES SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC REFORM-Arjun Sengupta FAILED PEACE TALKS- Jayadeva Uyangoda STATE FORMATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIA- Laksiri Fernando BOOK REVIEW -...

UNDERSTANDING APRIL 19 NOTES AND COMMENTS PEACE: UNDERSTANDING OUR REALITY- Rajan Hoole and K. Sritharan PEACE PROCESS, DEVOLUTION AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS- Neelan Tiruchelvam MEDIA IN CONFICT RESOLUTION:THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA HEMA’S STORY- Therese...

AFTER THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES NOTES AND COMMENTS SUSTAINING THE PEACE PROCESS- N.Shanmugaratnam TRUTH COMMISSIONS: AN OVERVIEW HOW SOCIETIES REMEMBER- Darini Rajasingham FAMILY HISTORIES AS POST-COLONIAL TEXTS- Yasmine Gooneratne WOMEN’S MOVEMENT-A FEMINIST...

PA : PAINS OF ADJUSTMENTS NOTES AND COMMENTS TAMIL ASPIRATIONS AND TIGER AMBITIONS- Ram Manikkalingam PEACE LTTE AND TAMIL INTELLECTUALS- Sasanka Perera RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM & CHAUVINISM- Kamal Hossain DEVELOPEMNET-CRITIQUE IN THE CULTURE TRAP- Saral Sarkar...

AFTER THE BOMB AND THE ELECTION NOTES AND COMMENTS USE OF STATE OWNED MEDIA- Charles Abeysekera THE BLAST & THE AFTERMATH- Jayadeva Uyangoda PROGRESSING THE PEACE PROCESS WITH LTTE- M .Shankar VIOLENCE DURING THE CAMPAIGN MARXISM & ETHNICITY- Kumar David MEDIA...

PEACE: ACT WITH RESPONSIBILITY NOTES AND COMMENTS PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS- Sunil Bastian THE STATE AND THE MARKET ECONOMY- W.D. Lakshman TALKING ABOUT THE BODY IN RUMOURS OF DEATH- Mala de Alwis & Pradeep Jeganathan SRI LANKA FROM NEW YORK- Judy Waters...

THE PROMISE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE NOTES AND COMMENTS FREE AND FAIR ELECTION CAMPAIGNS ELECTION VIOLENCE SRI LANKA’S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS- Jayadeva Uyangoda MORAL BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS- Ram Manikkalingam RELIGIO-NATIONALISM- Ven. Sangharakshita SIMPLE...

AUGUST ELECTIONS A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER NOTES AND COMMENTS WOMEN AND THE ELECTION OPEN LETTER TO POLITICAL PARTIES ETHNICITY, ‘NATION’ AND STATE OF FORMATION- Jayadeva Uyangoda MONOPOLY OF PATRIOTISM: A PERSONAL ESSAY- Sasanka Perera DISCUSSION IN DISSENT- Luicien...

DECRIMINALIZATION OF POLITICS NOTES AND COMMENTS REINVENTING SRI LANKAN STATE- Jithendra Basnayake ELLAALAN FORCE AND TAMIL CONSCIENCE?- Sasanka Perera FARMER SUICIDES- J. Uyangoda and W.N. Wilson COMMUNITY,NATION AND MILITARISM IN TAMIL NATIONALISM- Radhika...

AFTER THE SOUTHERN POLLS NOTES AND COMMENTS POLLS IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE- K. Loganathan PROVINCIAL POLLS IN THE SOUTH: FOUR VIEWS Jayadeva Uyangoda Sunil Bastian Sasanka Perera Nira Wikramasinghe SLFP’S NEW ECONOMIC POLICY SRI LANKA:HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS NEW THREAT...

CONSTITUTION: REFORM OR MANIPULATION NOTES AND COMMENTS MASS GRAVES AT SURIYAKANDA EXHUMATION OF MASS GRAVES: OBLIGATIONS AND PROCEDURES SOCIETIES OF TERROR: ABSENCE OF A BODY AND PROBLEMS OF MOURNING- Sasanka Perera UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM- Geraldine Gamburd...

DEVOLUTION: TRAVAILS AND TRIBULATIONS NOTES AND COMMENTS NGO COMMISION AND EMERGENCY REGULATIONS ‘MARKET FRIENDLY’ POLICIES:AN APPRAISAL- Lal Jayawardena CONSOCIATIONAL DEMOCRACY- Chris McDowell SELECT COMMITTEE:THE FAILURE OF POLITICS- Radhika Coomaraswamy SYNDICATED...

BETWEEN TWO FANTASIES NOTES AND COMMENTS MAKE PEACE NOT WAR- Stanley J. Tambiah SYNDICATED MOKSHA?- Romila Thapar BOMBAY RIOTS:A PEOPLE’S COMMISION REPORTS- P. A. Sebastian THE QUESTION OF SECULARISM PAW SANWARDHANA:VOICES FROM A DEVELOPING SRI LANKAN VILLAGE- Retold...

DEMOCRACY'S DISCONTENTS NOTES AND COMMENTS SRI LANKA’S CRISIS:CONTRACTARIAN ALTERNATIVES- Jayadeva Uyangoda STRIKING PRINTERS- Kumari Jayawardena DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND OWNERSHIP OF ASSETS:TRENDS IN SRI LANKA- Saman Kelegama TO BELLOW LIKE A COW- Radhika...

A TERRORIST QUESTION? NOTES AND COMMENTS CRISIS OF SECULARISM- Sarvapali Gopal TO BELLOW LIKE A COW- Radhika Coomaraswamy GANDHIAN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN SRI LANKA- Mithran Thiruchelvam GEORGE KEYT:PAINTER,LOVER OF WOMEN- Jane Russel GAMBLING AND ITS DILEMMAS- Rev....

THE MONTH OF MANY ANNIVERSARIES NOTES AND COMMENTS BRIDGES ACROSS THE ETHNIC DIVIDE-Stanley J. Tambiah THE NATION IN SRI LANKAN TAMIL GATHERINGS IN BRITAIN- E. Valentine Daniel POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN SRI LANKA:JULY 1983- Sunil Bastian CONTESTATION IN...

CHANGE BUT LESS THAN APPEARS NOTES AND COMMENTS THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND OBSTACLES TO PEACE IN SRI LANKA: SOME REFLECTIONS- N. SHANMUGARATNAM THE ETHNIC CRISIS: POLITICS DEVOID OF ECONOMICS- MANO RAJYA FRACTIONAL POLITICS DISMANTALING INSTITUTIONS OF DEMOCRACY- SUNIL...

PREMADASA’S LEGACY NOTES AND COMMENTS PREMADASA AS PRESIDENT:A POSTHUMOUS ASSESMENT- Jayadeva Uyangoda ECONOMICS OF THE PREMADASA REGIME INFORM FIELD REPORT ON REFUGEES SRI LANKA’S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS THE PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS:AN ANALYSIS- Sunil Bastian LETTERS WIDOWS...

MANDATE, FAITH AND PC ELECTIONS NOTES AND COMMENTS BECOMING AN NIE:A STRATEGY FOR SRI LANKA – Lal Jayawardena NATIONALISM, FEDERALISM AND REALISM- Adrian Wijemanne CASTE STRUGGLES IN NOTHERN SRI LANKA- N. Shanmugathasan DEMOCRATIC STATE FORMATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS-...

STATE VS. THE PRESS NOTES AND COMMENTS OPEN ECONOMY IN SRI LANKA- W. D. Lakshman TOWARDS A STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON SOUTH ASIA- Newton Gunasinghe PUNISHING THE VICTIM MASSACRE OF MUSLIMS: ITS MEANING FOR TAMILS- Rajan Hoole EDUCATING FOR PEACE:TAMIL, PERSPECTIVE-...

RAMA JANMABHUMI TO DHAMMADIPA NOTES AND COMMENTS 1992-YEAR OF POLITICAL CONFUSION- Jayadeva Uyangoda GROWTH Vs. WELFARE POPULISM IN 1992- Sunil Bastian HUMAN RIGHTS- 1992 A DISMAL RECORD- Charles Abeysekera IDENTITY, AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM (ii)- Edward Said INDIA’S...

FAREWELL TO NATIONALISM NOTES AND COMMENTS TEACHER’S ROLE IN ETHNIC CONFLICT- II – Sasanka Perera IDENTITY, AUTHORITY, AND FREEDOM- Edward Said POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION- Sharon Stephens PNOM PENH, DECEMBER 1992- Sunila Abeysekera WORLD BANK AND THE POLITICS OF AID-...

CONCENSUS STILL ELUSIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS SRI LANKA’S ETHNIC WAR:THE MUSLIM DIMENSION- Ameer Ali CIVIL WAR AND WOMEN OF JAFFNA- Stanley J. Tambiah DISUNION NOW: A SOCIETY BASED UPON SMALL UNITS- Leopold Kohr TEACHER’S ROLE IN THE ETHNIC CONFLICT- Sasanka Perera...

AN OPPOSITION OPPOSING ITSELF NOTES AND COMMENTS NAM IN A CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT – Saman Kelegama LINGUSITIC ETHNO-NATIONALISM- Stanley J. Tambiah WHITE WOMEN, ARRACK FORTUNES AND BUDDHIST GIRL’S EDUCATION-Kumari Jayawardena SCRIBES, PHARISEES AND JUDGES- Corups...

THE DEAD END OF POPULISM NOTES AND COMMENTS THIRD WORLDISM- Anila Cherian, Shan Manikkalingam and Robin Varghese RELIGION, ETHNICITY & PERSONAL IDENTITY- Nighat Said Khan ON STATE, SOCIETY AND DISCOURSE IN INDIA- Sudipta Kaviraj NATION STATE IN CIRISIS- THE RISE...

MEDIA FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILTY NOTES AND COMMENTS COMMUNALISM AND THE PRESS- N. Ram HATE SPEECH- Sunil Abeyesekara and Kenneth L. Cain MEDIA UNDER ATTACK FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN THE NORTH? FOR A FREE MEDIA- Lucien Rajakaurnanayake THE INDO-LANKA ACCORD- Jayadeva...

KANDALAMA, CAPITAL AND ENVIRONMENT NOTES AND COMMENTS VOODOO IN POLITICS- Jayadeva Uyangoda BOYS WILL BE BOYS- Qadri Ismail TIGERIST CLAIMS: A CRITIQUE- Ram Manikkalingam MASSACRES IN THE EAST DELIBERATE KILLINGS A VERDICT ON TORTURE PEACE: THE PRIMACY OF HUMAN...

A CITY  AWAKENED! NOTES AND COMMENTS YET ANOTHER UNP FLIIBUSTER_ Qadri Ismail THE WEVA, THE DAGABA, AND THE HOTEL- Pradeep Jeganathan THE SWAMI AND THE SUB-TEXT- Radhika Commaraswamy ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE- Vasuki Nesiah TO BE BUDDHIST AND EQUAL- Elizabeth Harris THE...

PARADOXES OF BUDDHISM BANNING THE LTTE SUB – JUDICE?- Jayadeva Uyangoda MAY DAY! MAYDAY!!- Charles Abeysekera THE RE – MAKING OF VESAK WESAK EDITORIAL FROM THE BUDDHIST 1889 BUDDHISM OF DISSENT- Uma Chakravarti BUDDHISM AND GENDER BIAS: A JATAKA TALE- Kornvipa Boonsue...

RE-POLITICIZING THE ETHNIC QUESTION LETTERS TIGERISM- Ram Manikkalingam REFLECTIONS ON FEAR- Gameela Samarasinghe Gender Agenda- Khema Rodrigo Of Rural Heroines and Urbanized femme fatales- Malathi de Alwis More on the Gordimer Critique- S. Sumathy The Economic Cost...

THE PEACE OFFENSIVE ‘THERE CAN BE NO MILITARY SOLUTION….’ THONDAMAN BASHING IN DEFENCE OF A POLITICAL SOLUTION OUT OF THE IMPASSE REFUGEES: THERE POTENTIAL AS A FORCE FOR RECONCILIATION AND PEACE- Rohini Hensman REVOLT IN THE TEMPLE - Corpus Delecti THE TWO FACES OF...