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Sasanka Perera (This essay was initially published in The Island on 24 December 2025:https://island.lk/the-aesthetics-and-the-visual-politics-of-an-artisanal-community/) Organized by the Colombo Institute for Human Sciences in Collaboration with Millennium Art Contemporary, an interesting and unique exhibition got underway in the latter’s gallery in Millennium City, Oruwala on 21 December 2025.…
Sasanka Perera (This essay was initially published in The Island on 19 December 2025: https://island.lk/poltergeist-of-universities-act/) The Universities Act is back in the news – this time with the present government’s attempt to reform it through a proposed amendment (November 2025) presented by theMinister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education, Harini Amarasuriya, who herself…
Sasanka Perera(This essay was initially published in The Island on 10 December 2025:https://island.lk/handunnetti-and-colonial-shackles-of-english-in-sri-lanka/) When Minister Sunil Handunnetti addressed the World Economic Forum’s ‘Is Asia’s Century at Risk?’ discussion as part of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2025 in June 2025, I listened to his presentation carefully and to the…
(This essay was initially published in The Island on 13 November 2025: https://island.lk/the-art-of-diplomacy/) On 8th November 2025, I visited the residence of the Swiss ambassador for the opening of the ‘Art Collection of the Swiss Residence in Colombo’ featuring the works of eleven contemporary Sri Lankan artists and an elegant reproduction of the well-known 1951 […] The post The ‘Art’ of…
(This essay was initially published in The Island on 05 November 2025: https://island.lk/harini-amarasuriya-social-ethnographic-research-lab-much-ado-about-nothing/) As I listened to the Prime Minister, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya at University of Colombo on 28th October 2025, she noted that research symposiums, conferences, and academic publications across the country’s universities have expanded in…
(This essay was initially published in The Island on 29 October 2025: https://island.lk/does-sri-lanka-contribute-to-global-intellectual-expansion-of-social-sciences-and-humanities/) Let me begin with a confession. Even though I have been conventionally located within social sciences in terms of training and university location, I have never been a discipline or subject puritan throughout my…
(Initially published in The Island, 25 October 2025: https://island.lk/the-show-goes-on/) “Bring to me mustard seeds from a family where no one had died,and I shall bring your child back to life” Exactly one year ago on 13 October 2024, I wrote an essay titled ‘The Geneva Circus’in the government’s own Sunday Observer suggesting that the government […] The post The Geneva Circus: The Show Goes On…
Colombo Institutes collaborates with the International Centre for Ethnic studies in organizing lectures and discussions at its premises in Colombo 8. The last such event was Prof Roma Chatterji’s lecture on 14 July 2025 focused on the theme, ‘The Superhero Image and Ravana Mythology’ during which prof Chatterji explored how visual narratives reshape. The post @ International Center for Ethnic…
Colombo Institute’s visual arts and cultural programs are organized through and with the Millennium Art Contemporary in Oruwala. Among the many such events so far organized are Dr Roma Chatterji’s lecture, ‘Mothers and Daughters: Time and Memory in the Art of Anoli Perera’ 5 July 2025 at Millennium Art Contemporary premises as well as a […] The post @ Millenium Art Contemporary first appeared on…
Colombo Institute organizes lectures, discussions and short courses at the premises of the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies in collaboration with BCIS on themes of mutual interest. So far, the events organized include Dr Roma Chatterji’s lecture, ‘A Ramayana for the Dark Age of Kali: Superheroes, Science Fiction and Myth’ on 2 July 2025; the […] The post @ Bandaranaike Centre for…
