William Mazzarella is the Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in India (2003), Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity (2013), The Mana of Mass Society (2017), and Magnetizer: A Fable of Spirit (forthcoming). He is the co-editor, with Raminder Kaur, of Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction (2009), the editor of K D Katrak: Collected Poems (2016), and the co-author, with Eric Santner and Aaron Schuster, of Sovereignty Inc: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment (2020).
Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of 24 defendants after an extensive examination of thousands
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, explosives, logistical support and the coordinated suicide bombings
Sri Lanka has every right to speak forcefully on Palestine and international justice. But moral authority abroad cannot substitute for diplomatic precision at home.
The Pathfinder Foundation and the China Center for South Asian Studies (CCSAS) at Sichuan University launched the Colombo Maritime Dialogue 2026 Report at a
I might as well begin with two servings of fascist potatoes. The first comes from Wilhelm Reich, the great renegade psychoanalyst, who observed in 1934 that “Hitler’s gift of a sack of
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