Pranith Wirasinha

Sri Lanka-Bangladesh cricket rivalry: A Breeding Ground for Hate speech and Islamophobia

Last weekend featured a double header at the T20 Cricket World Cup featuring four South Asian nations. The evening match played under lights was between two countries with a difficult relationship, diplomatically…

Pranith Wirasinha on 10/26/202110/26/2021

Development, Education, Kilinochchi, Language, Media and Communications, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya

Literacy and the Dimensions of the Digital Divide

Literacy rates in Sri Lanka have hovered in the high 90s for the past decade or so, impressive figures no doubt; enough for the country to be publicised in official publications as…

Pranith Wirasinha on 09/08/202109/09/2021

Development, Districts, Environment, Pandemic, Politics and Governance

Realistic or just Rhetoric? The Ban on Chemical Fertilizer

In early 2021, a survey conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, found that farmers faced food insecurity as a result of the measures that had been put into place to…

Pranith Wirasinha on 08/27/202108/27/2021