B. Skanthakumar 🇵🇸

co-editor @Polity_LK | director @ssa_lanka & @werc_sl | alum @soasLAW

[B. Skanthakumar 🇵🇸 @skanthakumar_b]

Editorial on #NPP #SriLanka foreign policy.

[PolityLK @Polity_LK]

"Neutral but humanitarian" is how @anuradisanayake explained his #NPP government's stance in the ongoing US-Israel war in West Asia. Yet, in a unipolar moment, what does "neutrality" amount to, and why should it be right?

Image Credit : Awantha Artigala

https://t.co/gKOIs2jhfA

[SSA_Lanka @ssa_lanka]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝: 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

🗓️: 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟓 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
🕔: 𝟓:𝟎𝟎 𝐏𝐌 𝐭𝐨 𝟔:𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌
📍: 𝐒𝐒𝐀, 𝟑𝟖𝟎/𝟖𝟔, 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐑𝐝, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐨 𝟎𝟕.

[B. Skanthakumar 🇵🇸 @skanthakumar_b]

Wonderful introduction and appreciation of Fr. Aloy, by scholar of the Buddhist-Christian encounter in colonial Ceylon Liz Harris, who worked with him in the 1980s.

[PolityLK @Polity_LK]

Aloysius Pieris SJ, scholar and practitioner of Buddhist-Christian dialogue in #SriLanka never separated scholarship from praxis, writes Elizabeth J. Harris, giving agency to victims of global capitalism and corporate greed.

https://t.co/KY1mecRp5f

[PolityLK @Polity_LK]

Aloysius Pieris SJ, scholar and practitioner of Buddhist-Christian dialogue in #SriLanka never separated scholarship from praxis, writes Elizabeth J. Harris, giving agency to victims of global capitalism and corporate greed.

https://t.co/KY1mecRp5f

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

Sri Lanka: A new Amnesty International report finds that Malaiyaha Tamil workers on private tea estates in Southern Sri Lanka are facing labour abuses that may amount to forced labour under International Labour Organization (ILO) standards.

The findings expose not only exploitative labour practices, but systematic failures of enforcement, accountability, and worker protection. Read our report here: https://t.co/qV42WCmT3E

[The Examiner @ExaminerLK]

On earlier court dates, no separate legal counsel appeared on behalf of the child — this led to outrage on social media. But today, about 50 lawyers were seen at the court, offering to take on the case. Asith Siriwardena and six other lawyers are now appearing on behalf of the child.

https://t.co/RXoqyDtOKN

[Ermiza Tegal @ErmizaTegal]

Converted some of my observations of recent legal developments into a short piece of writing. The continued armament of the Sri Lankan law with features of authoritarian power does not bode well for people in Sri Lanka. Resistance requires seeing it.

https://t.co/n43nPyAjYz

[PolityLK @Polity_LK]

One year since the first exhumation of skeletal remains from the mass grave site in #Chemmani #Jaffna, #poetry by M. C. Kanula on where the "earth spits out bones". #SriLanka

https://t.co/KBtGaY08aB

[SSA_Lanka @ssa_lanka]

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡
Manal Aru / Weli Oya: The Violent History of River Valley Development, Frontier Colonisation and Ethnic Territorialisation

🗓️: Tuesday, 𝟐𝟔 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
🕔: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
📍: Social Scientists’ Association, 380/86, Sarana Rd, Colombo 07.

[Meera Srinivasan @Meerasrini]

Noted Sri Lankan journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj dies in Canada;

He wrote extensively for over four decades on the island’s ethnic conflict and key political developments, including as @the_hindu Sri Lanka Correspondent

https://t.co/msPlfbjC16

[The Examiner @ExaminerLK]

Even though the Rajapaksa political legacy is much diminished today, it lives on. The South still sees the war through Mahinda’s eyes.

https://t.co/uD5FtPyQLN

[Meera Srinivasan @Meerasrini]

#SriLanka civil war: 17 years later, the imprints remain - long read from the Northern Province https://t.co/32qQtuCbkc via @the_hindu

[B. Skanthakumar 🇵🇸 @skanthakumar_b]

A slice of Ceylon's post-colonial social and political history, when the phases of the moon determined holidays and therefore school and work days. #Time #SriLanka

[PolityLK @Polity_LK]

Once upon a #time not long ago, #Ceylon substituted the lunar for the Gregorian #calendar. All became out of joint. Sharni Jayawardena tells the story behind 'Just A Phase' (59 mins | 2026) produced by @iceslk , and on release 15 May.

https://t.co/Cxu1ehHoUn

[B. Skanthakumar 🇵🇸 @skanthakumar_b]

Nigel writes a lovely reminiscence on close encounters with the institution that was Suriya Wickramasinghe, founder and backbone of the Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka.

[N. V. Nugawela @nvnugawela]

"Suriya lionised collective effort (never “I”, always “we”). She emphasised the duty we had in taking up “the cause of any person whose basic rights are infringed.” She insisted on precision and care." | SURIYA WICKREMASINGHE (1934-2026):
https://t.co/RUhGAkqqHp #srilanka #lka

[SSA_Lanka @ssa_lanka]

The Social Scientists’ Association calls for 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 on the continuing relevance of the multi-disciplinary scholarship of Kumari Jayawardena. Send your pitch (under 300 words) to <[email protected]> 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝟐𝟐 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.

[Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindib_]

On April 29, 2026, Sri Lanka lost one of its steadfast and longest-serving advocates for human rights, Suriya Wickramasinghe, best known as the face of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), of which she was a founding member and secretary. https://t.co/dIAzL0xaZr by Renuka Senanayake

[Alan Wald @wald_alan66447]

Alan Wald on "The Black Radical Imagination" in AGAINST THE CURRENT. "The 'African American Old Left' are practically all deceased...but their cumulative work comprises a mosaic of collective memory ...
https://t.co/plwkcr3Wso

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

Remembering Suriya Wickremasinghe (1934 - 2026), a principled and courageous advocate for justice, equality, and human rights. We are grateful for her contributions to Sri Lanka’s Civil Rights Movement, to Amnesty International Sri Lanka’s board in the 1970s, and to Amnesty’s human rights work around the world. In this photo, she is seen (4th from the left) as a member of Amnesty’s International Executive Committee accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.

Her steadfast commitment to standing with marginalized communities remains an enduring part of her legacy, one that continues to inspire others to fight for justice and resist with integrity and conviction.

[Carlos Lopes @LopesInsights]

MY NEW BOOK IS OUT.
A dignified recognition of Amilcar Cabral, the agronomist, co-organised with my @UCT_news colleagues Anselmo Matusse and Lesley Green. Discover that Cabral was also the father of the African agro-ecology.
Free download here 👇
https://t.co/EmFDDJiR2c

[PolityLK @Polity_LK]

Marking the 7th anniversary of the 2019 Easter Sunday terrorism, the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR) analyses past official inquiries, with which it expresses dissatisfaction, calling for truth in the hope for justice. #SriLanka

https://t.co/xosg1MldXF