ContentsGoverning in Anticipation of Backlash by EditorsThe Great Flood by B. SkanthakumarFCEJ Stands in Support of the Birds, the Land, and the People of Mannar by Feminist Collective for Economic Justice Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30 by Peoples’...

Contents There is Great Disorder Under Heaven - Editorial The NPP Government and Its Democratic Promise: A Review - Jayadeva Uyangoda The Revival of the JVP after 1989 - Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri System Stability Not Change: The NPP Abandons Populism for Liberal...

THE CONJUNCTURE IN THE CRISIS - B. Skanthakumar  WHERE DOES PEACE REST? - Natasha Ranawake ZIONISM IN CRISIS AFTER OCTOBER 7? WHAT CRISIS? - Neve Gordon TWO CONCEPTIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY - Rohini Hensman RESISTING GENOCIDE IN GAZA: IS A NEW POLITICAL IMAGINARY...

Editorial - 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...

Editorial: Hyper-Reforms amidst Hyper-Austerity Sri Lanka 2023: Anniversaries of Struggle - Q. M. Saul May Day Diary 2023 - B. Skanthakumar Don’t Use Class as a Weapon to Dismiss Social Struggles - Devaka Gunawardena Resisting the Nationalist Right’s Framing of the...

Editorial - Terror as Stability 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...

Editorial - ‘Weeks when Decades Happen’ 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...

Editorial - Polity Turns 30! Towards Democractic Reforms (Pravada's 1st Editorial, November 1991) ‘Executive Authoritarianism’ as Sri Lanka’s New Political Normal since COVID19* - Jayadeva Uyangoda US Withdrawal from Afghanistan and Its Impact on Sri Lankan Democracy...

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...

Defeat of Divisive Politics - Ahilan Kadirgamar A Vote for Continuing Change - Jayadeva Uyangoda Celebrating the Idea of Democracy in a Year of Elections - Jayadeva Uyangoda Marxism and Ecology: Notes on Some Theoretical Developments - Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam...

Editorial - From Geneva to Sanity 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...

Editorial - Political Reform After the War On the Termination of the State of Emergency - Statement by the Centre for Policy Alternatives Left Parties of UPFA for Devolution – Sandun A. Jayasekera Sri Lankan Buddhism: Mahindian Hybrid of Pre-Buddhist – M.M.J....

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 - Sri Lanka’s Past Year Domestic Violence: The Rice Pot Boils Over - Cat's Eye The Punishment Is the Crime - Courtesy Sunday Island Ayodhya Verdict – Romila Thapar Appeal to Fellow Citizens - Suriya Wickremasinghe, Civil Rights Movement If Term Limit Goes –...

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...

Commentary: Another Presidential Election, With Little Space for Change No Return to the Gallows: CRM Opposes Death Penalty - Civil Rights Movement Hang the Death Penalty! - Sunday Island Creeping Talibanization? - Sunday Island Book Review: Theravada Buddhism and the...

Conversations about history with Romila Thapar - Kalpana Sharma Remembering a Socialist Pioneer: Selina Perera - The Relentless Pioneer - Charles Wesley Ervin Female Leaders in South Asia: The Impact of Feudalism and Religious Fundamentalism - Devanesan Nesiah From...

Bringing the Thirteenth Amendment Back? President Obama - Sankaran Krishna The US Presidential Election 2008: Part 03: The Economy Crashes the Party - Judy Waters Pasqualge The US Presidential Election 2008: Part 04: Obama: Time for the Issues - Judy Waters Pasqualge...

Sri Lanka: A Distant Dream Sri Lanka's Conflict at the Crossroads - Jayadeva Uyangoda JVP Splits - Jayadeva Uyangoda Polling for Peace Policies: The Sri Lankan Case Study - Pradeep Peiris Anthropologizing History and Historizing Anthropology - Premakumara de Silva...

Arthur C. Clarke's Secularism Politics of Sri Lanka in 2007: Trajectories of Conflict Escalation - Jayadeva Uyangoda The US Presidential Election 2008: Primary Season - Judy Waters Pasqualge Shifting Theories: Partial Perspectives on the Household - Kanchana N....

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 - CPA, INFORM, IMADR and LST Muslims in Sri...

Conflict, War and Democratic Governance Towards a North-Eastern Consensus - Devanesan Nesiah From Peace Optimism to Undeclared War - Camilla Orjuela The November 2006 Midterm Elections in the United States: War, Economics and Ethics - Judy Waters Pasqualge Right...

Escalating War Raviraj: Another Assassination Kethesh Loganathan - Jayadeva Uyangoda Assassinations and Counter Assassinations: Reflections on the Killing of Kethesh 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...

'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,...

Sabre Rattlings? Post-Tsunami Operation Mechanism Structures (P-TOMS) Supreme Court Judgment on P-TOMS - Sarath N. Silva Memorandum of Understanding: For the Establishment of a Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure P-TOMS: After the Judgment - Jayadeva...

Tsunami and After: Fault Lines and Shifts in Politics Three Years After the Cease Fire - Jayadeva Uyangoda Proposals for an Interim Council for the North and East: A Way Out - Sumanasiri Liyanage The Tsunami Tragedy: Its Causes and Consequences - Osmund Jayaratne...

Peace After the Tsunami: New Windows of Opportunity Post-Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka - Jayadeva Uyangoda After the Tsunami: A Plea for Responsible Reconstruction - Rajan Philips From Relief and Rehabilitation to Peace in Sri Lanka - Kristian Stokke and N....

Peace and Reconciliation? Peace Watch - Jayadeva Uyangoda Re-Working Autonomy Options for Sri Lanka - Jayadeva Uyangoda How Development Can Undermine Peace - Sunil Bastian ICT 4 Peace: Tools for Transcending Deadlock - Harinda Ranura Vidanage Writing That Conquers:...

Sri Lanka's Peace Process: More Bad News to Come? Peace Watch -  Jayadeva Uyangoda Sri Lanka After Elections: Continuing Uncertainty - Jayadeva Uyangoda Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Martin Wickramasinghe - Carlo Fonseka A Rising in the East - Malathi de Alwis 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...

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: The Sri Lankan Tamil Community in Toronto, Canada – Amali Philips Child Soldiers in Civil War: Why Do Children Become Soldiers? – S.I. Keethaponcalan Health as a Catalyst...

A Negotiated Stalemate Peace Watch – Jayadeva Uyangoda The International Post-conflict Industry: Myths, Rituals, Market Imperfections and the Need for a New Paradigm – Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake What Went Wrong? The LTTE's Pull-out From the Peace Talks: A Comment –...

War in Iraq: Road Map to a New Empire Sri Lankan Protest on Iraq Invasion - Collective 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 The...

One Year of Peace A Promise of Peace - Radhika Coomaraswamy Taiwan, Taliban, Taliwan - Ram Manikkalingam A Comment on the Peace Talks: Provincializing Vital Issues - Sumanasiri Liyanage Redesigning the Peace Process - Kumar Rupesinghe Ethnic Identity and...

The Peace Process and Its Political Dilemmas Sri Lanka's Peace Process - Two Essays The Peace Process, People and Civil Society - Jayadeva Uyangoda Peace in Sri Lanka: Prospects After Prabhakaran’s Media Conference - Jayadeva Uyangoda Mou, Spoilers and the Interim...

Focus on Peace Sri Lanka: A “Pragmatic” Peace Agenda Sri Lanka’s Peace Process: Surprising Possibilities? - Jayadeva Uyangoda Peace: A Long Way to Go - S. I. Keethaponcalan Peace: From Illusion to Reality - Adrian Wijemanne Obstacles to the Peace Process - V. S....

Sri Lanka After the Elections: Managing Uncertainty Was Women’s Vote the Secret Weapon? - Cat's Eye The World Can’t Be So Easily Divided - Amartya Sen Liberalisation and Political Decay: Sri Lanka's Journey From Welfare State to a Brutalised Society - David Dunham...

Articles on the Global Crisis 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! - Slavoj Zizek Radical Islam...

Crisis Management or Crisis Escalation? Notes and Comments Land of the Displaced - V. Suryanarayan The IMF and Civil War in Sri Lanka: A Critical Dialogue - Muttukrishna Sarvanathan The Draft Domestic Violence Law What Will It Do? - Mario Gomez An Overview of Ritual...

The Need for a New Constitution The Work of Monks Buddhist Monks and Ethnic Politics - H. L. Senaviratne Book Review - The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka by H.L. Seneviratne - Bhikku Bodhi An Army of Monks? - Nirupama Subramanian Child Ordinations and...

Ethnic Relations Lessons From Mawanella Notes and Comments Sinhalese-Muslim Riots of 1915 - Kumari Jayawardena Capacity Building, Accountability, and Humanitarianism - Jennifer Hyndman and Malathi de Alwis The Perfect Window - Gopalkrishna Gandhi Dr. S. A....

Defeat Talibanization of Politics Some Parameters for a Peace Settlement - Laksiri Fernando Development as a Holistic Process: Lessons From the Last Five Decades - W. D. Lakshman Building Industrial Capability in Sri Lanka - G. Chris Rodrigo California Electricity...

Negotiations Both Sides Stand to Gain Notes and Comments Sri Lanka: Not Simply an Ethnic Conflict - Ram Manikkalingam Re-Branding Tourism in Sri Lanka: A Case for Ethical Tourism -   Muttukrishna Sarvananthan Players’ Associations and Labour Struggles: Sports Stardom...

After the Parliamentary Polls Notes and Comments Women in Parliament: Two Steps Back - Cat's Eye  General Elections 2000: An Interpretation - Sunil Bastian The Inner Courtyard: Political Discourse of Caste, Justice and Equality in Sri Lanka - Jayadeva Uyangoda The...

Ethnic Question and PA-UNP Consensus Notes and Comments Politics of Aphasia - Yolanda Foster The Shrine of the Innocents - Indika Bulankulame Disrupting the Postcolonial Sexual Contract: The 81st Amendment to India's Constitution - Criket Keating Ashis Nandy and Some...

Sri Lanka's Politics After the Presidential Election Notes and Comments Sri Lanka in the Twentieth Century From Quietude to Crises - Jayadeva Uyangoda Women and the Millenium - Radhika Coomaraswamy History as Dynamite - Michael Roberts Nuclear Weapons and Security in...

Tributes to Neelan Neelan and the Unfinished Peace Project Notes and Comments When Will It All End? - Kethesh Loganathan  Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam: A Tribute From the SSA Neelan - A Feminist Salute - Cat's Eye A Tribute From India - Collective Multiculturalism Was a Way...

Cricket- There is Politics in It! Notes and Comments Sri Lanka - An Ongoing Tragedy - Dilip Simeon Focus on Cricket Seaming Turfs: The Lottery of the World Cup - Michael Roberts The Three Cycles of Sri Lankan Cricket - Ajith Samaranayake Bangles to the Captain! -...

More on Elections and Politics Notes and Comments Tamil Nationalism and the Sinhalese - Hector Abhayavardhana Communal Violence in the Plantations - P. Manikam Learning to Be Political: The Citizen Way - C. S. Dattatreya Gender Issues The "Moral Mother" Syndrome -...

Elections and Democracy : Back to the Basics Notes and Comments Violence in the Wayamba Election: Incidents, Types and Patterns - The Centre for the Monitoring of Election Violence (CMEV) The Communist Manifesto: An Introduction - Eric Hobsbawm The Futility of Common...

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: Regulating...

Abuse in Political Debate Notes and Comments Twenty Years of Liberalization in Sri Lanka: Implications for Women Workers- W. D. Lakshman University Education After Fifty Years of Independence - Ashley Halpe Nation-State, Security Studies and the Question of Margins in...

Elections, Security and Democracy Notes and Comments Special Section on “For a Non-Nuclear South Asia” The End of Imagination - Arundhati Roy The Epidemic of Nuclearism: A Clinical Profile of the Genocidal Mentality - Ashis Nandy Nuclear Power and Human Security -...

The Question of Political Space Notes and Comments Charles Abeyesekera (1926 - 1998) - Collective Some Reflections on Violence - Charles Abeysekera Sri Lanka at Fifty: The Birth of a Tragedy - Jayadeva Uyangoda Looking Ahead With Anxiety - Eqbal Ahmad Asia's Cultural...

After the Jubilee Notes and Comments Sri Lanka's Crisis: Identifying Its Complexities - Jayadeva Uyangoda Special Section: Plantations in Crisis Tea Plantations: Need for a Long-term Strategy - P. P. Manikam The Future of Tea Estates - David Dunham Tea Talk: Violent...

Once Again, Impasse Notes and Comments In a Lush, Tormented Land - Eqbal Ahmad Who Are the Tamils - Pradeep Jeganathan After Devolution: Protecting Local Minorities and Mixed Settlements - Darani Rajasingham-Senanayake How Normal is Normal? - Kumudini Samuel Jaffna:...

Free Education vs. Reform Notes and Comments India’s Political Order May Change, On Its Own - Jayadeva Uyangoda Half-Way to Freedom: Dates With Disaster - Eqbal Ahmad Racism Disguised in Space: Some Comments on Recent Spatial Architectonics in Sri Lanka - Sumanasiri...

PA: End of the Road for Reformism? Notes and Comments The Draft of the New Constitution - Rohan Edrisinha & Deepika Udagama The Sinhala Kaduwa: Language as a Double Edged Sword and Ethnic Conflict - Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Electronic Media, Media Control and...

Local Elections; Thinking and Acting Un-locally Notes and Comments Local Bodies as Domains of Power - Jayadeva Uyangoda Political Violence, Structural Amnesia and the Lack of Remorse - Sasanka Perera Global Struggle for Democratic Communication - Robert W. McChesney...

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. - Mr. Sidat Sri Nandalochana (Chairman), Dr. Jayadeva Uyangoda Mr. Rohan Edrisinha and Mr. R.M....

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 Plantation - The...

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 - Anonymous Indian Elections and Sri Lanka Plantations Strike - April 1996 - P....

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: Gender Agenda Reasserted! - Editorial...

Sri Lanka : From War to Politics Notes and Comments Hatred and Revenge Killings: Constructions of Political Violence in Sri Lanka - Purnaka L. De Silva Perceptions of Traditions and the Limitations of Middle Class Imagination - Sasanka Perera The Tragedy of the...

Nationalism in Moderation? Notes and Comments Devolution Debate: Perspectives From North - Rev. Dr. S. J. Emmanuel Sri Lanka: Some Issues of Social Integration - Jayadeva Uyangoda Chandrika’s Federal Package: A Political Analysis - Partha S. Ghosh In Search of a Sri...

And Now the Hard Work Has to Begin Notes and Comments Subaltern Studies Conference in Colombo - Qadri Ismail The Package and Its Politics - Jayadeva Uyangoda Liberation and Other Misperspections - Kenneth Mulder Home-Lands, Border Zones and Refugees: Facts, Fictions,...

A Dharma Yuddha? Notes and Comments Seeking Justice or Revenge? - Sunila Abeysekera Commissions Inquiring Into Disappearances AI’s Observation and Recommendations Sustainable Economic Reform - Arjun Sengupta Breakdown of “Peace Talks” - Jayadeva Uyangoda State...

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 - Rich Mkhondo Hema's Story -...

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 Developement-Critique in the Culture Trap - Saral...

Ater 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...

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 Formation - Jayadeva Uyangoda Monopoly of Patriotism: A Personal Essay - Sasanka Perera Discussion in Dissent - Luicien...

Decriminalisation of Politics Notes and Comments Reinventing Sri Lankan State - Jithendra Basnayake Ellalan 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 Provincial Polls in the South: Pointer to Future - Jayadeva Uyangoda UNP in the South: What Went Wrong? - Sunil Bastian Southern PC...

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 Commission and Emergency Regulations ‘Market Friendly’ Policies: An Appraisal - Lal Jayawardena Consociational Democracy - Chris McDowell Select Committee: The Failure of Politics - Radhika Coomaraswamy...

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 -...

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 Russell Gambling and Its Dilemmas -...

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...

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 Dismantling Institutions of Democracy -...

Premadasa’s Legacy Notes and Comments Premadasa as President: A Posthumous Assessment - 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...

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: A Tamil...

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...

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 Phnom Penh, December 1992 - Sunila Abeysekera World Bank and the Politics of...

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 Crisis - the...

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 Filibuster - 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...

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...

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 Delicti The Two Faces of...

Towards Openness in Economic Policy Making Black and White Thondaman Proposals: What Next? The Bank, the Fund and the Rest of Us - Jayadeva Uyangoda Privatisation of Plantations: Some Comments - Sumanasiri Liyanage ICJ on the NGO Commission Sri Lanka in the World...

SAARC VI Towards Democratic Reforms Statement by the Civil Rights Movement Impeachment and the Constitutional Crisis – Jayadeva Uyangoda The Cosmic Dance – Corpus Delicti Through a Splintered Mirror: The Impeachment as Viewed by the Media – Ajith Samaranayake The BBC...