Viyanga Gunasekera is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, with research interests in border studies, conflict and peacebuilding, and women’s empowerment.

Sely Liyanage is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Ruhuna.

Manoranjan Pegu holds a PhD in Sociology and writes in a personal capacity on issues of tribes, labour and nationalism in India.

Lionel Bopage is a retired engineer, former political prisoner and refugee, and longtime rights activist and analyst. He is a founder and was the first General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramu...

Editors’ Note: This statement was initiated by anti colonial iran—a transnational collective that translates and circulates the statements of incarcerated, marginalised, colonised and revolutionary vo...

Sujit Sivasundaram is professor of World History and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of the prize-winning Waves Across the South: A New History of Revol...

Bhadrajee Hewage (DPhil., Oxon) researches the intersection of religious, cultural, social and intellectual history in modern South Asia.

Kasun Kavishka is an undergraduate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Colombo. | In late April 2026, Sri Lanka welcomed Aloka, an Indian stray dog who walked along with US-based Buddhists monk...

Binu Peiris is an undergraduate in the Department of English at the University of Colombo.

Ruben Thurairajah is a Yorkshire-based general practitioner in Britain’s National Health Service; who also tweets https://x.com/RubenThurairaj and writes https://drruben.substack.com/

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.

Shannon Constantine is a PhD. candidate in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.

Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera is John Curtin Distinguished Professor Emerita at Curtin University. Among other books, she is the author of Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the ...

Dr. Devanesan Nesiah (28 April 1935 -- 12 June 2026) was a distinguished public servant, stalwart of civil society, and longtime member of the Social Scientists' Association. He is remembered with aff...

Dr. Devanesan Nesiah (28 April 1935 -- 12 June 2026) was a distinguished public servant, stalwart of civil society, and longtime member of the Social Scientists' Association. He is remembered with aff...

Thiruni Kelegama (PhD., University of Zurich) is a lecturer in modern South Asian studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies in the University of Oxford, and author of Central Margins: Sr...

Elizabeth J. Harris retired as Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University and is presently Honorary Fellow in the Edward Cadbury Centre in the Department of Theology and Rel...

Roshni Kapur is a PhD student at the University of Ghent focusing on caste and land conflicts in Sri Lanka. She is an editor of a forthcoming volume on the 2022 economic crisis and implications for co...

MC Kanula has an LLB from the University of Colombo and is currently pursuing a degree in English and English Language Teaching at the Open University of Sri Lanka.

Sharni Jayawardena is a documentary photographer and filmmaker.

The Iranian ship with around 130 crew on board had concluded goodwill visits in India between mid and late February. This was just before 28 February when Israel and the US began their unprovoked atta...

Seven years after the brutal terrorist attack in Sri Lanka on 21 April 2019, on Easter Sunday, the primary objective of publishing a special report by the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR) is to c...

Shashik Silva is Chief Operations Officer of the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) and the Quantitative Research Lead for the SSA January 2026 survey on public perceptions of Cyclone Ditwah impact,...

Gananath Obeyesekere Collection

Jonathan Spencer is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh; co-editor (with Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Mounaguru, and Galina O...

Dennis B. McGilvray is Professor of Anthropology emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, and a past president of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS). His new book, A House for...

Selvy Thiruchandran is a founder, former executive director, and presently a Trustee of the Women’s Education and Research Centre (WERC) in Colombo.

Richard F. Gombrich was Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2004 and is the founder-president of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies; author among other works of Pr...

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.

Geethika Dharmasinghe (PhD., Cornell University) is senior lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Colombo and post-doctoral fellow in the Department for the Study of Religion at the...

Anne M. Blackburn is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University; and author most recently of Buddhist-inflected Sovereignties Acro...

Radhika Coomaraswamy is a lawyer and academic; earlier the Executive Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo; past Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka; the...

Mark P. Whitaker is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky; and co-editor (with Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake and Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran) of Multi-Religiosity in Contemporary Sri L...

Chulani Kodikara is an editor of Polity and a director of the Social Scientists’ Association.

Victor C. de Munck is Professor of Anthropology at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and the author of several works on Sri Lanka including Seasonal Cycles: A Study of Social Change and Continuity in Sri...

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...

Anushka Kahandagamage (PhD, University of Otago) is a post-doctoral fellow in the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University.

John D. Rogers is United States Director of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies; and author of Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka (Curzon Press, London, 1987).

The Creation of the Hunter. The Vädda Presence in the Kandyan Kingdom: A Re-Examination. Gananath Obeyesekere. | Robert Siddharthan Perinbanayagam died on 5 November 2025 in New York City where he liv...

Sanmugeswaran Pathmanesan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Studies at the Open University of Sri Lanka | Gananath Obeyesekere

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

Shashik Silva is Chief Operating Officer at the Social Scientists’ Association and a resident of Kolonnawa | Welewatta has always flooded. This village in the Kolonnawa Divisional Secretariat (DS), ho...

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

As Sri Lanka reels from the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in his address to the people on 30 November 2025...