By Uditha Devapriya “Sovereign,” Carl Schmitt once wrote, “is he who decides on the exception.” Power, in that sense, is the ability to be the exception...
By Uditha Devapriya A book on Ravindra Randeniya was long incoming, and now we have two. Full disclosure: I am the author of one of them....
By Uditha Devapriya With elections coming up in a few months’ time – notwithstanding Palitha Range Bandara’s outrageous remarks, to which Saliya Pieris, the former President...
By Uditha Devapriya At the time of his death on May 19, in a helicopter crash that has yet to be fully investigated, Iranian President Ebrahim...
By Beena Sarwar and Uditha Devapriya Reverberations of America’s campus protests are felt in a remote rural area in the middle of a jungle in the...
By Uditha Devapriya In a long, thoughtful article on Vasantha Obeyesekere in the Daily Mirror two years ago (“Versatile Filmmaker Vasantha Obeysekera’s Dadayama“, August 6, 2022),...
By Uditha Devapriya and Rumeth Jayasinghe Like most South Asian countries, Sri Lanka will face elections this year. Both the government and the Opposition are busy...
By Uditha Devapriya More than a year after he visited Sri Lanka, US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs...
By Uditha Devapriya You are putting me in a hole. No, I am taking you out of it! Somewhere in 2016, I lost my first job.I...
By Uditha Devapriya Commissioned in 1939 and completed a year later, the murals at Gotami Viharaya in Borella represent a high point of 20th century Buddhist...