Sovereignty and Regionalism
Please read full article here:The Nation ;Sunday- 2014.02.02 http://www.nation.lk/epaper/sunday/2014/02/02/index.html#7/z
Author: Hettiviththi
Global policing and sovereignty
By Dr. Shanthikumnar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 19 January 2014 00:00 Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee member Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) holds up a small four-bladed remote controlled helicopter during a hearing about the future of unmanned […]
Global politics shifting foreign policy
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 05 January 2014 00:00 Sri Lanka’s foreign policy itself has changed and shaped in the context of the war it fought for thirty years. Foreign policy moved as the mode […]
Colonial Mindset and Foreign Policy
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 08 December 2013 00:00 http://www.nation.lk/edition/lens/item/23444-colonial-mindset-and-foreign-policy.html Edward said in his seminal work, Orientalism (1978), contended that not only the geopolitical domination, but also the intellectually domineering approaches of the colonial mindset […]
Post-conflict democracy
By Dr Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Visiting Lecturer, The University of Colombo There is speculation and argument about the concept of ‘post-conflict’ by political gurus. Some assume that it is the ‘end of conflict’ per se, while […]
Reflections: FAITHING THE NATIVE SOIL……
David Cowling (Emeritus Coordinator, GRASSROOTS) Southampton, United Kingdom “What hope does a nation have if religion, which is a path for social transformation, has degenerated and this very degeneration and corruption are devotionally pursued like […]
A historical narration of two major faiths
By Reviewed by Salma Yusuf Sunday, 23 September 2012 00:00 Faithing a Native Soil: Dilemmas and Aspirations of Post-colonial Buddhists and Christians in Sri Lanka by Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi The release of the publication titled […]
Faithing the Native Soil: Dilemmas and Aspirations of Post-Colonial Buddhists and Christians in Sri Lanka: Reviewed by Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar
Faithing the Native Soil: Dilemmas and Aspirations of Post-Colonial Buddhists and Christians in Sri Lanka. By Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi. (Colombo: Centre for Society and Religion, 2012.) Reviewed by Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar In a comprehensive manner he […]
Rising above stunts summersaults and acrobatics
By Dr Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 10 November 2013 00:00 President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa with Queen Elizabeth 11 Head of the Commonwealth (File photo) As preparations are underway to welcome the […]
Discusses Buddhist identity under British rule-Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi’s Faithing the Native Soil
Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Theosophical Society led by Henry Olcott and Madame Blavatsky, as well as the formation of the Young Men’s Buddhist Association, helped shape an intellectual identity in opposition to the colonially-dominant Christian and […]