Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KEERAWELLA Gamini
The passing away of Prof. P.V.J. Jayasekera on July 11, 2024, after a brief illness, has left a profound void in the study of modern history in Sri Lanka. He lived a productive academic life, offering guidance to generations of students with his thorough and unique analytical perspective, right (…)
The Silenced Era
(From Shared ENCOUNTERS in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand – International Centre for Ethnic Studies)
A Gentleman from Jaffna
Watching Sound of Music at Rio Cinema, Colombo was an unforgettable childhood recollection for Swarna Pathirage. “My favorite song was ‘Sixteen (…)
, by ABEYASEKERA Asha L. , PERERA Tania
On 18 May, Sri Lanka marked the 15th anniversary of the end of war. In 2009, many Sinhala people in the South took to the streets to spontaneously celebrate what they imagined as a new beginning for Sri Lanka—a rebirth that could forget the past. The birth of Israel on 14 May 1948 was (…)
, by FERNANDO Ruki
Killings of civilians and other atrocities have been widespread during three decades of war, mostly in the North an East. Sri Lankan armed forces, police and the LTTE appear to be responsible for many massacres according to eye witnesses and circumstantial evidence. It’s rare that Sri Lankan (…)
, by TAMMITA-DELGODA SinhaRaja
Modernism appealed to Keyt’s temperament, liberating him as a man and an artist. Confined and stifled by the morals and conventions of the day, he had already broken with its social codes. Modern art and its innovation opened up a new path for him. Enabling him to be free, to be different and to (…)
, by KAHINA Ashik
A new collection presents the harsh, even brutal lyricism of Lakdhas Wikkramasinha, forged amid the violence of the 1971 JVP insurrection and still unlike anything else in Sri Lankan letters
Militant Tamil nationalists were not the first to mount an armed insurrection against the Sri Lankan (…)
, by Newswire
The Cabinet has approved the appointment of a 03-member committee to investigate the killing of Edward Henry Pedris 108 years ago by a decision of the colonial court-martial.
Photo from The Sunday Observer
The government said Edward Henry Pedris, who was 27 years of age at the time, was (…)
“It was the class struggle in free flow and it constituted the highest point that the class struggle had yet reached in Ceylon”
70 years ago this month, on 12 August 1953, “a demonstration of the tremendous power of the masses in action” influenced by Left parties and trade unions, shook the (…)
, by ONDAATJIE Angeline
The socialist era art collection at People’s Bank in Slave Island
Nestled amidst the bustling streets of Slave Island (Kompannavidiya) lies an obscure art gallery that remains largely unknown to the public. The building, a stark relic of Sri Lanka’s socialist era in the 1970s, is frequented (…)
, by BANDARA Dhanuka
The idealised “village” was at the core of the people’s struggle last year. As a fundamental of Sri Lankan nationalist thought, agrarian utopianism helps to explain the country’s past and imagine a different future.
In Sri Lanka, during last year’s aragalaya, or people’s struggle, the concept (…)
, by GUNASEKARA Tisaranee
“Our challenge is to devise some arrangement which enables us to coexist if not in amity then at least in forbearance.” Jawaharlal Nehru (quoted in Andre Malraux’s Anti-Memoir).
During Black July, marauding mobs, when uncertain about the ethnic identity of a potential victim, would order (…)
, by DEVAPRIYA Uditha
Inspired by Yugoslavia’s market socialism, Trotskyists in the Sri Lankan government instituted workers’ councils during the 1970s. A decade later, the experiment collapsed. What explains its rise and fall?
On June 28, 1948, the Cominform, the Stalinist alliance of European Marxist-Leninist (…)
, by ALLARDICE Lisa
Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better
When Shehan Karunatilaka (…)
, by HENSMAN Rohini
I am not in Sri Lanka, and I feel torn about what is happening there. Acute anxiety about how millions will survive the shortages of food, fuel and medicine jostles against a glimmer of hope that this crisis could be the beginning of the end of a decades-long nightmare. Since the country gained (…)
, by JEYARAJ David Buell Sabapathy
It was daily routine for Robert to exercise every morning on the balcony. He was exercising as usual on that fateful day while two of his comrades stood by watching. Suddenly there were three or four “plops” in succession. A bleeding Subathiran was rushed to the Jaffna Teaching Hospital nearby, (…)
, by ROZAIS Naveed
A study on the paradox of religious art and Sri Lanka’s diverse ethnic history
That Sri Lanka was an ancient trading hub based on our strategic positioning on the global map is a well-known facet of our history and that positioning as a trading hub is one that we’re still very much trying to (…)
, by HEMACHANDRA Samal Vimukthi
Sarath Wijesinghe Charithapadanaya saha 71 Tharuna Pibidhime Yatapathkala Ithihasaya (The Biography of Sarath Wijesinghe and the Suppressed History of Youth Awakening in 1971)
By Susila Hemamali Wijesinghe Author Publication, Colombo, p. 380, 2022
The title of this book review is borrowed (…)
The 150th anniversary of the beginning of the tea industry in British Ceylon was marked in 2017 by a range of government and corporate events, mostly to promote Sri Lanka’s premier agricultural export. In counterpoint, the Gampola-based Tea Plantation Workers Museum and Archive hosted a (…)
, by MOONESINGHE Vinod
I do believe that Sarath Amunugama’s memoirs will prove a valuable resource for future historians. However, in the cause of historical accuracy, I should like to take issue with what he writes (“April Fifth 1971: High drama in Temple Trees”, the book extract published in the Sunday Times of (…)
, by Ceylon Today
Deepa Mehta’s latest film, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s Sri Lanka-set coming-of-age novel “Funny Boy,” has been picked up by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing, and will land on Netflix this December, Variety revealed.
The Oscar-nominated “Earth” and “Midnight’s Children” director wrote (…)
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