~ Sasanka Perera, South Asian University Growing up Sinhala and Buddhist in Sri Lanka, one cannot but be familiar with Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933). As many of us have known as a matter of quotidian socialization, Dharmapala was the preeminent spokesperson and activist of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist revivalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, […]
~ Sasanka Perera, South Asian University At the most fundamental level, the title of Pavan Kumar Malreddy’s book poses a serious epistemological and logistical question for readers. That is, how would such a modest book of 169 pages do justice to the vast and almost endless thematic possibilities suggested by the crucial terms in the […]
~ Nilanjana Sen, Independent Researcher By the nineteenth century, in colonial India, attempts were made to bridge the distance between the political world of the colonial state and Indian society. But this was also the period when the colonial civil society was developing in South Asia independent of the state. Benjamin B. Cohen in his […]
2011 දී මුලින්ම පලකරන ලද ‘ආගමෙන් ඔබ්බට: සමස්ථ ලොවටම පොදු ආචාරධර්ම පද්දතියක්’ යන කෘතිය අති උත්තම දලයි ළමා තුමා විසින් රචිත ‘Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World’ යන සුප්රසිද්ධ කෘතියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනයයි. එමගින් උන්වහන්සේ උත්සාහ කර ඇත්තේ, තමන් සුපැහැදිලිවම බෞද්ධ ආගමික නායකයෙකු වුවද, සියළුම ආගම් වලින් ඔබ්බට ගොස්, සමස්ත මානව වර්ගයා ම […]
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the […]