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Ahilan on ‘Sri Lanka and the Global Economy’/ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හා ගෝලීය ආර්ථිකය ගැන අහිලන්

Ahilan Kadirgamar on Left Discourse -‘Sri Lanka and the Global Economy: ECTA, FDI and other options organized by Socialist Study Circle, held on Friday, 11 March 2016 at the Sama Samaja Piyasa සමාජවාදී අධ්‍ය්යන කවයේ සංවිධානයෙන් පසුගිය මාර්තු 11 දින සම සමාජ පියසේ දී වමේ කතිකාව: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හා ගෝලීය ආර්ථිකය:ඊසීටීඒ,විදේශ ආයෝජන හා අනෙකුත් විකල්ප…

The Left and Mass Media in the 20th Century – Ajith Samaranayake

“Today, moreover when the newspapers have become more subtle and trivial in their handling of politics (throwing open their columns to guest writers of the extra-parliamentary Left such as Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne) while peddling political gossip rather than issues; and television talk-shows figure all kinds of political opinion straddling the entire spectrum of ideas (if…

On Religion and Violence by Charles Taylor

The 20th century has been marked in a horrifying way by “categorical violence”-a violence directed against people on the basis of their belonging to a certain group. Categorical violence has three distinguishing features: excessiveness, the discourse of purification and a ritual element. There are two views of the cause of categorical violence which I wish…