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Author: Prof Sasanka Perera

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Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Music, Religion and faith

Shrillness of Nonsensical Cultural Politics and the Social History of a Song

The latest news from Sri Lanka’s often bizarre domains of cultural politics is that Buddhism is under threat along with Sinhala culture. This however, is not due to the corrupt and violent…

Prof Sasanka Perera Prof Sasanka Perera on 02/08/201602/14/2016
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Polls

The Inevitability of the Banana Republic

Image courtesy Bloomberg Sri Lanka has been a ‘banana republic,’ for quite some time, and clearly so throughout the oligarchy of the Rajapaksas. Formally, a banana republic is “a small country that is…

Prof Sasanka Perera Prof Sasanka Perera on 08/29/2015
Colombo, Elections, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Best Wishes for Your Appointment as President

Photo courtesy World Snap Faculty of Social Sciences South Asian University New Delhi – 110021 India 09th January 2015 His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena The President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri…

Prof Sasanka Perera Prof Sasanka Perera on 01/13/2015
Colombo, Culture, Education, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Social Responsibility in Universities in Unstable Times

Photograph courtesy Vikalpa Vice Chancellor, the dean and colleagues, let me wish all of you a very good morning. When the Dean, Faculty of Arts wrote to me some time ago and…

Prof Sasanka Perera Prof Sasanka Perera on 11/22/201411/24/2014
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Language, Long Reads, Politics and Governance

Terror, Performance and Anxieties of Our Times: Reading Rustom Bharucha and Reliving Terror

( by Rustom Bharucha (2014). Tulika Books, New Delhi; ISBN 978-93-82381-37-2; pp. xvi; 250. INR 695.00 Approaching terror When I started reading Rustom Bharucha’s latest book, Terror and Performance, it immediately became…

Prof Sasanka Perera Prof Sasanka Perera on 09/21/2014
Colombo, Features, International, International Relations, Politics and Governance

LONG READ | Beyond History, Against the Present: Preliminary Thoughts on Re-imagining ‘South Asia

Original graphic from In my mind, delivering a keynote address in a conference that has as its theme the stated objective of ‘connecting South Asia and dynamics of art and culture in…

Prof Sasanka Perera Prof Sasanka Perera on 10/03/201210/03/2012
Colombo, Features, Identity, Jaffna, Language, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Reflections on Issues of Language in Sri Lanka: Power, Exclusion and Inclusion

Photo credit Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters, from Time magazine. Keynote address delivered on 17th October 2011 at ‘Language and Social Cohesion: 9th International Language and Development Conference, Colombo co-organized by the Ministry…

Prof Sasanka Perera Prof Sasanka Perera on 10/24/201110/25/2011

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