Does Sri Lanka Contribute to the Global Intellectual Expansion of Social Sciences and Humanities?

(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…