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Author: Devika Brendon

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Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

SWRD and The Poisoned Well Of Nationalism

I was introduced to the existence of a publicly shared negative attitude towards S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike for the first time at a book launch in Colombo several years ago. The author had decided…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 05/15/202205/15/2022
#GoHomeGota, Colombo, Education, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Emergence vs Emergency

Many people in the international community are now waking up to the realization that Sri Lanka is experiencing an unprecedented phenomenon. And unfortunately, due to the media’s predilection for sensational news, the…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 04/14/202204/18/2022
#GoHomeGota, Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Princes Do But Play Us

I have been thinking for the last few weeks how similar the current political situation in Sri Lanka is to a domestic violence situation where the victim takes some time to face…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 04/05/202204/18/2022
Colombo, Culture, Gender, Human Rights

The Caged Birds Of Paradise

Being a woman in Sri Lanka in 2022 is a challenging experience. Gender in a patriarchal society whose hetero normative values are entrenched is intensely complicated by the complex fragility of South…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 03/08/202203/08/2022
Advocacy, Colombo, Media and Communications

Natalie Soysa – A Fierce and Inspiring Activist

Natalie Soysa lived an intensely creative life. She was a writer, a journalist, a photographer and activist and she understood early in her life what many people take decades to fully realise…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 01/24/202201/24/2022
Colombo, Healthcare, Pandemic, Politics and Governance

Vaccine Politics

Public health crises by definition are not going to grant much personal choice to individuals. It’s been 18 months now since the inception of the coronavirus pandemic and there’s just enough data…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 08/13/202108/14/2021
Colombo, Gender, justice

Playing Catch Up: Sri Lanka’s MeToo Movement

Sri Lanka’s MeToo Movement is currently being described by Al Jazeera, The Hindu and The Independent as ‘delayed’ or ‘belated’, with stories of harassment, abuse and violation of women in professional spheres…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 07/02/202107/02/2021
Colombo, Development, Gender, Politics and Governance

Taking Up the Challenge of Women’s Empowerment

In the past several years, we can see that a remarkable change has been occurring in Sri Lanka. A society which is disproportionally dominated by male voices and perspectives, has seen and…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 03/08/202103/12/2021
Colombo, Culture

Cancel Culture and What It Empowers

A brilliant friend of mine at university was upset one day because someone had vandalized her final exam results on the printout the University had pinned up on the board. She had…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 12/09/202012/15/2020
Colombo, Healthcare

What Death Can Teach Us

The title for this article is taken from the motto above the doorway to the morgue. The Latin words translate as “This is a place where Death has much to teach those…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 11/14/202011/25/2020
Elections, International, Issues, Long Reads

US And Them

The United States and Sri Lanka both call themselves democratic societies. Like most of the rest of the world, we have had the U.S.A. held up to us as a model of…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 12/20/201604/28/2021

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