Dhanuka Bandara

Dhanuka Bandara is a lecturer in the Department of English and the Postgraduate Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Peradeniya. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Miami University, USA.

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A shrine of Ravan at the Munneswaram temple in north-western Sri Lanka. While Jayewardene establishes her work as antithetical to the Sinhala Buddhist appropriation of Ravan, it is broadly nationalist in its tangible utopianism and yearning for a bygone golden age.

Where does Ravan fit in Sri Lanka’s imagined past?

Dhanuka Bandara

27 Dec 2024

The Sri Lankan president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, at the Galle Literary Festival 2024. Such highly curated and exclusive events stand in stark contrast to the ground reality of most Sri Lankans, who are still grappling with the ongoing economic crisis. Photo courtesy: Malaka MP Photography / Galle Literary Festival

State patronage and geopolitics are strange bedfellows for Sri Lanka’s literary and art festivals

Dhanuka Bandara

04 Apr 2024

Geoffrey Bawa at his private residence, Number 11, in Colombo. As Sri Lanka embraces a neoliberal architectural aesthetic of skyscrapers and towers, there is still much to be learnt from the path-breaking architect’s legacy and regionalist vision for the country. Photo courtesy: Dominic Sansoni / Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives, Lars Müller Publishers

The limited genius of Geoffrey Bawa

Dhanuka Bandara

24 Nov 2023

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