Author Archive for Asoka Bandarage

Invitation Existential Crisis, Mindfulness and the Middle Path to Social Action by Asoka Bandarage Wednesday 17 September at 6.30pm UK – online only

Friday, September 12th, 2025

Asoka Bandarage    Please join us online to welcome Dr Asoka Bandarage who will be giving a public talk on Wednesday 17th September at 6.30pm UK time. Existential Crisis, Mindfulness and the Middle Path to Social Actionby Asoka Bandarage Dr Bandarage will deliver a public lecture for The Buddhist Society on Wednesday 17th September 6:30pm […]

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 Sri Lanka: The Beautiful, Besieged Island

Monday, September 1st, 2025

Dr. Asoka Bandarage, Courtesy IDN-InDepth News In July 2025, the influential global travel website Big 7 named Sri Lanka the most beautiful island in the world,” stating that the teardrop-shaped island off the southern coast of India has it all—golden beaches, terraced tea plantations, timeworn temples, colonial towns, misty mountains, and wildlife safaris … elephants […]

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Protecting Human Heritage: Sri Lanka’s Buddhist Culture

Saturday, July 26th, 2025

Dr. Asoka Bandarage Courtesy In-depth News We live in a time of accelerated militarism, environmental devastation, and deepening social collapse. Amid these crises, the destruction of our shared global heritage — humanity’s historical, spiritual, and artistic legacy — receives an astounding lack of attention. As we enter the age of transhumanism and techno-market reality, creativity […]

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REFLECTIONS ON CUBA, BRICS AND GEOPOLITICS

Wednesday, July 9th, 2025

Asoka Bandarage I returned to the U.S. from Cuba just a few hours before Donald Trump signed a memorandum on June 30, 2025, tightening the long-standing U.S. economic blockade against Cuba. The memorandum includes a statutory ban on U.S. tourism to the neighboring island. Despite a long fascination for the island nation, I did not […]

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TOWARDS A NEW INTERNATIONAL ORDER?: INDIA, SRI LANKA AND THE NEW COLD WAR

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

By Dr. Asoka Bandarage Will a peaceful and sustainable multipolar world be born when the rising economic weight of emerging economies is matched with rising geopolitical weight, as argued by renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs in his recent Other News article?[i] There is no question that, as the US-led world order collapses, a new multipolar world […]

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Indian Colonialism in Sri Lanka

Thursday, March 27th, 2025

Dr. Asoka Bandarage Following independence from Britain, both India and Sri Lanka emerged as leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement, which sought to advance developing nations’ interests during the Cold War. Indeed, the term “non-alignment” was itself coined by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his 1954 speech in Colombo. The five principles of the Non-Aligned […]

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Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World-Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives by Asoka Bandarage

Thursday, February 8th, 2024

Volume 30 in the series De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences  Requires Authentication Published by De Gruyter 2023 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111203454Cite thisShare this Overview About this book Now in Paperback This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis […]

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Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World -Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives -by Asoka Bandarage

Sunday, January 21st, 2024

About this book Volume 30 in the series De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Now in Paperback This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential […]

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Book Review – Asoka Bandarage, Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins – Ecological and Collective Alternatives. De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences. Vol 30. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. 2023

Sunday, November 12th, 2023

W. D. Lakshman, Professor Emeritus, University of Colombo Asoka Bandarage is known for her unconventional approach in several of her publications on development which extensively draw case study material from Sri Lanka. Her examination of the current crisis in Sri Lanka also employs an innovative analytical approach, setting it apart from most existing studies on […]

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Debt and the Crisis of Survival in Sri Lanka and the World

Thursday, August 24th, 2023

Asoka Bandarage [This article is derived from the author’s new book: Asoka Bandarage, CRISIS IN SRI LANKA AND THE WORLD: COLONIAL AND NEOLIBERAL ORIGINS: ECOLOGICAL AND COLLECTIVE ALTERNATIVES (Berlin: De Gruyter,2023) https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111203454/html?lang=en] Sri Lanka has been faced with an unprecedented political and economic crisis since the beginning of 2022. The dominant narrative attributes the crisis […]

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