Geethanjana Kudaligamage Rajapakse, regional politics, “Eurocentric Developmentalism”ƒ”š‚ and the western hegemony (Part 8-C) The culturally marginalized family of the movie “ƒ”¹…”Colomba Sanniya,’ was a victim of the western ideology of modern progress and the canonical Marxist ideology that presented “ƒ”¹…”economic disparity’ as the root-cause of class difference in Sri Lanka. According to this interpretation, as […]

ƒ”š‚  Geethanjana Kudaligamage ƒ”š‚ Rajapakse, regional politics, “Eurocentric Developmentalism”ƒ”š‚ and the western hegemony (Part 8-B) “Well! Well! Well!!! There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden to prove it.”ƒ”š‚Frantz Fanon Manik Sandrasagara and Tyrone Fernando’s “ƒ”¹…”Colomba Sanniya’ was laughing at the post-colonial social-aberration of Sri Lankan society. But […]

GEETHANJANA KUDALIGAMAGE Rajapakse, regional politics, “Eurocentric Developmentalism”ƒ”š‚ and the western hegemony (Part 8-A) ƒ”š‚ “I am talking of millions of men who have been skillfully injected with fear, inferiority complex, trepidation, servility, despair, abasement.”ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ Aime Cesaire Does this statement of Aime Cesaire possess any relevance to our struggle against all forms of hegemony? Isn’t this statement […]

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Geethanjana Kudaligamage Rajapakse, regional politics, “Eurocentric Developmentalism”ƒ”š‚ and the western hegemony “Metaphysics- the white mythology which reassembles and reflects the culture of the west; the white man takes his own mythology, Indo-European mythology, his own logos, that is, the mythos of his idiom, for the universal form of that he must still wish to call […]

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Geethanjana Kudaligamage “They make slaughter and they call it peace”ƒ”š‚ƒ”š‚ (Tacitus) Today, I would like to submit the thesis of “western “ƒ”¹…”peace’ debacle in Sri Lanka as a failure of their conceptual blunder of promoting “ƒ”¹…”partition as the prerequisite to Sri Lanka’s progress.”ƒ”š‚ As the result, the west lost their credibility both as redeemer of peace […]

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Geethanjana Kudaligamage Rajapakse, regional politics, “Eurocentric Developmentalism”ƒ”š‚ and the western hegemony In the part 4 of this article, this writer mentioned that something extraordinary is happening in the belly of the Indian Ocean. Some of the historical evidences of the glorious past of the region, some related to legends, chronicles and even numerous epic sagas […]

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Geethanjana Kudaligamage Sri Lanka, an oceanic nation inherently suffering from Aqua-Phobia. Failure of Seetawaka Rajasinghe is a monumental historic lesson for President Rajapakse to think anew about our destiny in the Indian Ocean;ƒ”š‚  Throughout the history, the nation of Sri Lanka has ignored something very fundamental to its origin; it is none other than its […]

Geethanjana Kudaligamage “The future is that which-tomorrow, latter, next century, will be”ƒ”š‚¦which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l’avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes, whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The “ƒ”¹…”Other’ who comes without my being […]

Geethanjana Kudaligamage “Eastern Nightmare”ƒ”š‚ a hysterical anxiety, and the inherent historical fear of the west toward the east. The pre-modern Silk Road, the red line depicts the land route and the blue line depicts the sea route. Europe locates in the periphery, to the far west of the Asian center. Post LTTE political developments in […]

Geethanjana Kudaligamage Sri Lanka is in historical crossroads; and has reached to a critical juncture in her entire history of two and a half millennium. Opening up a new politico-economical and a military chapter, radically severing the dependency on the west, Sri Lanka has taken a far-reaching twist in the course of its history toward […]