Ambika Satkunanathan
Ambika Satkunanathan is a human rights advocate and activist who, during her tenure as Commissioner from Oct 2015 to March 2020 at the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, led the first ever national study of prisons undertaken by the Commission.
Prisoners in a pandemic
COVID-19 reveals structural and systemic inequalities in Sri Lanka’s prison system.
Apr 03, 2020
Latest Articles
The anatomy of Urdu
How the language of state-making in Pakistan contributes to the erasure of regional languages.
CNN in Myanmar, environmental crises, and Tibetan cinema
Southasiasphere podcast episode 06: Updates and analysis from around the region.
Translating a pandemic
The impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages.
The myth of Congress socialism
Why Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were never really on the Left to begin with.
