by polity.lk | Apr 2, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Laughter, Debate, and Dissent: Personal Glimpses of Gananath Obeyesekere Selvy Thiruchandran I first met Gananath at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) in Colombo, when its Director, Radhika Coomaraswamy, invited me to present a paper. My topic was the...
by polity.lk | Mar 31, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
A Bridge Between East and West Richard F. Gombrich My love and admiration of Gananath are so rooted in my view of my own life that if I failed to respond to this invitation to write something about him, I would find my failure unforgivable, regardless of the...
by polity.lk | Mar 25, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
‘A literary man interested in anthropology’ Ranjini Obeyesekere interviewed by Crystal Baines Dr. Ranjini (Ellepola) Obeyesekere is one of Sri Lanka’s leading translators, and among its first female theatre directors. She is the author, among other works, of Sinhala...
by polity.lk | Mar 21, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Conversion and Tradition: The Religious Public in Millennial Sri Lanka Geethika Dharmasinghe A proletarian ethic parallel to the bourgeois ethics of Protestant Buddhism has not developed in the city’s working class, and in spite of many years of left politics, Marxist...
by polity.lk | Mar 17, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
A Tale of Two Islands Anne M. Blackburn As long as I have studied Buddhism and Southern Asia, Gananath Obeyesekere has been a guide and interlocutor, always through his powerful writings, and sometimes in person. Though we are all missing Professor Gananath greatly...
