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Punsara Amarasinghe

Dr. Punsara Amarasinghe is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. His co-edited book “Thirty Years Looking Back: The Rule of Law, Human Rights and State Building in the Post-Soviet Space was published in 2022 .

    September 29, 2026
    Geopolitics/Human Rights/Judiciary

    Exclusive: Inside Sri Lanka’s Easter Plot — Read the Full TAB Judgment

    The 22 September 2026 Trial-at-Bar judgment provides a detailed account of the alleged network behind Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, tracing the prosecution’s case from ideological indoctrination and recruitment to weapons,

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    Bluffing Is Not Diplomacy

    Sri Lanka has every right to speak forcefully on Palestine and international justice. But moral authority abroad cannot substitute for diplomatic precision at home. With the current account weakening, thousands of workers facing uncertainty in Israel and the IMF programme

    September 29, 2026

    Sri Lanka and China Deepen Indian Ocean Policy Dialogue

    Events/Sri Lanka

    The Pathfinder Foundation and the China Center for South Asian Studies (CCSAS) at Sichuan University launched the Colombo Maritime Dialogue 2026 Report at a

    Sri Lanka Opposition Says Surge in Gold Pawning Signals Deepening Financial Strain

    Politics/Sri Lanka

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    Revisiting Crippled Minds after 40 years

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    Book Reviews

    The writings critiquing Western knowledge and the West’s depiction of Asia are being often received a higher admiration from the academia in the Global South as profound attempts that try to question

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    Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka celebrates its 178th Anniversary

    May 2, 2023
    News

    This year marks the 178th anniversary of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka the oldest learned society in the country, but arguably the 178th year stands as a critical juncture for

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    Ideologies: Swimming against the current

    February 21, 2023
    Columns/Education

    In general, the dissolution of the USSR was marked as the triumph of liberal democracy over Communism by creating a rift in the ideological realm of the West. However, the euphoria erupted

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    Prof. Merlin Peiris: The last of the Mohicans leaves the stage

    December 18, 2022
    Education

    The demise of Prof Merlin Peiris embodies the end of an epoch representing the humanities academia in Sri Lanka as he was obviously the last of those great doyens who lived when

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    Thucydidean reality in Sri Lanka: Some comments on Yuan Wang 5

    August 16, 2022
    Columns

    The small state dilemma is a complex discourse in the realm of International Relations, which dates back to the classical epoch of Thucydides whose seminal work “The History of Peloponnesian War” has

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