The March 2018 Sinhala-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka underline growing communal schisms in the island state. This article examines the rise of Sinhala ultra-nationalism and the violent groups primarily ...
The Sinhala version of Beena Sarwar’s international documentary ‘Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka – Beyond the Headlines’, which was produced and translated into Sinhala by Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe, ...
Sri Lanka’s Sinhala-Buddhist nationalists have opened a new front in their war against the island’s minorities. If for decades it was the island’s Tamils who were the focus of their hostility, it is ...
Andreas Johansson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Sri Lanka’s security forces stand near a vandalized building in Digana, a suburb of Kandy, Sri Lanka (March 6, 2018). Over the past fortnight, Sri Lanka has witnessed a surge in violence targeting ...
For six months now, a team of archaeologists and forensic experts has been unearthing human remains from a mass grave in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka. The number of skeletons retrieved has now crossed ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this article, I juxtapose the ways the "father of modern Sinhala drama" John De Silva, and the Sinhah language reformer, Munidasa ...
Andreas Johansson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...