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-...

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 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...

Editorial On the Termination of the State of Emergency Left Parties of UPFA for Devolution – Sandun A. Jayasekera Sri Lankan Buddhism: Mahindian Hybrid of Pre-Buddhist – M.M.J. Marasinghe FTZ Workers and Politics of Social Protection – Janaka Biyanwila An Open Letter...

Editorial 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 Sri Lankan...

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’...

Editorial 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 Century Thinkers - Martin Kettle In Death,...

Editorial 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 Vijaya...

EDITORIAL 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 ELECTIONS: A TIME TO BE HOPEFUL –...

EDITORIAL 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, SECULARISM AND POLITICAL CULTURE – H.L....

EDITORIAL 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 INTERIM...

EDITORIAL 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- PLAYERS IN SEARCH OF...

EDITORIAL 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 1983...

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...

Editorial 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 Economics...

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 Uyangod 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  EMERGING ECONOMIES IN A SEA OF GLOBAL FINANCE- Paul A. Volker THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM- George Soros THE NEW CHALLENGE- G.Chris Rodrigo THE EXTRA-ECONOMY OF THE...

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 NATIVISM,ORIENTALISM AND THE LEFT- Valentine...

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 VIENNE GOONEWARDENA:”LA...

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...

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 OF LITERARY...

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- J. 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...

EDITORIAL NOTES AND COMMENTS MASS GRAVES AT SUIYAKANDA EXHUMATION OF MASS GRAVES: OBLIGATIONS AND PROCEDURES SOCIETIES OF TERROR: ABSENCE OF A BODY AND PROBLEMS OF MOURNING- Sasanka Perera UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM- Geraldine Gamburd ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND...

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....

EDITORIAL 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 VIENNA:THE UN HUMAN...

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-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...

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...

SAARC VI TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC REFORMS STATEMENT BY THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IMPEACHEMENT AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS – Jayadeva Uyangoda THE COSMIC DANCE- Corpus Delicti THROUGH A SPLINTETERED MIRROR: THE IMPEACHEMENT AS VIEWED BY THE MEDIA- Ajith Samaranayake THE...