Nadeera Rajapakse is an Assistant Professor in the History of Economic Thought at University Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne, with research interests in identities, migrants, and global mobilities.

Ranjini Obeyesekere is Lecturer Emerita at Princeton University | Crystal Baines is a researcher at the Social Scientists’ Association and a lecturer at the University of Colombo.

B. Skanthakumar is co-editor of Up-country Tamils: Charting A New Future in Sri Lanka (2019, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo); and a director of the Social Scientists’ Association (SS...

Roderick L. (‘Jock’) Stirrat is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sussex, Brighton; and author most recently of Embracing Change in Coastal Sri Lanka: Local Strategies in a Globa...

Carmen Wickramagamage (PhD., University of Hawaii) is a senior professor in the Department of English, University of Peradeniya. | Darshi Thoradeniya’s book

Once again, the Iranian people are on the streets against their repressive rulers. Once again, the Islamic Republic has retaliated with extreme violence.

Suriya Women’s Development Centre is a Batticaloa-based gender justice organisation founded in 1990.

Kumudini Samuel is Director (Programs and Research) at the Women and Media Collective and the author of A Hidden History: Women’s Activism for Peace in Sri Lanka 1982-2002 (Colombo: Social Scientists’...

Chulani Kodikara is a director of the Social Scientists’ Association and an editor of Polity. Amalini de Sayrah is a writer, photo-journalist, and activist.

Balasingham Skanthakumar is with the Social Scientists’ Association of Sri Lanka and an editor of Polity.

Ruben Thurairajah is a Yorkshire-based general practitioner in England; who also tweets https://x.com/RubenThurairaj and writes https://drruben.substack.com/

Kaushalya Ariyarathne (PhD., Colombo), a founder-member of the Progressive Women’s Collective, was elected to the parliament of Sri Lanka in November 2024, and appointed Deputy Minister of Mass Media ...

Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage is a senior lecturer in the Department of Integrated Design at the University of Moratuwa and a Chartered Architect.

Vajra Chandrasekera is a writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka, currently visiting New York as one of the 2025-2026 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York...

Anushka Kahandagamage (PhD, Otago) has researched new Buddhist trends in post-war Sri Lanka. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Divinity School 2025-2026.

Sri Lanka is not insulated from any of this, regardless of the indifference of its state and government, political and civil society. Global economic growth will crawl up by 2.3% this year, the World ...

Shiran Illanperuma is a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and a co-editor of Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought.

Sandunlekha Ekanayake is a Lecturer of English and Business Communication at the Faculty of Business, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. She is also a research analyst at Muragala | Centre for Progres...

Kasun Kavishka is an undergraduate at the University of Colombo, and an intern at the Social Scientists’ Association.

The Gaza Tribunal Sarajevo Public Assembly brought together legal experts, academics, medical professionals, journalists, and Palestinian witnesses, in the historic city of Sarajevo – a location chose...

Themal Ellawala is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Working at the intersection of anthropology, postcolonial studies, and feminist and q...

B. Skanthakumar is with the Social Scientists’ Association of Sri Lanka and an editor of Polity.

Harindra B. Dassanayake is a policy analyst and co-founder of Muragala | Centre for Progressive Politics and Policy (CPPP), Sri Lanka. Rajni Gamage is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian...

Kiran Grewal (PhD., University of Technology Sydney) is Visiting Professor in Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of two books: ‘The Socio-Politic...

Pradeep Peiris (PhD., Colombo) is senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Colombo. He is the author of Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in ...

Taniya Silvapulle is a researcher with the Social Scientists’ Association... On 2 April 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, imposing trade measures on partners ac...

B. Skanthakumar is with the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) of Sri Lanka; and the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM).

B. Skanthakumar is with the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) of Sri Lanka; and the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM).

Sumanasiri Liyanage is a political economist who retired as associate professor in the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Peradeniya; and co-convenor of the Marx School in Sri...

Kaushalya Perera (PhD., Pennsylvania State University) is a senior lecturer at the Department of English, University of Colombo, where she teaches linguistics. Hasini Lecamwasam is a lecturer at the D...

Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage is a senior lecturer in the Department of Integrated Design at the University of Moratuwa and a Chartered Architect. Malithi Liyanage holds a degree in engineering and is a ...

Vihanga Perera (MPhil, PhD) is senior lecturer in English at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He is co-author of The Pen of Granite: A Richard de Zoysa 25th Year Memorial (2015).

Dhanuka Bandara is a lecturer in the Department of English and the Postgraduate Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Peradeniya. He is co-author of The Pen of Granite: A Ri...

Manikya Kodithuwakku is a senior lecturer in the Department of Language Studies of the Open University of Sri Lanka. She is co-author of The Pen of Granite: A Richard de Zoysa 25th Year Memorial (2015...

Prabha Manuratne (PhD. SUNY Buffalo) is professor at the Department of English in the University of Kelaniya.

Kanya D’Almeida is a writer, and winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is the co-author of I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner, available now from Hachette B...

Cheran Rudhramoorthy, professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Windsor, is an academic, poet, playwright, and journalist.