Dinesha Samararatne

Dinesha Samararatne is a law academic with an interest in public law in Sri Lanka, including constitutional law.

Sri Lanka’s constitutional ping-pong

The 20th Amendment in historical perspective.

Sep 25, 2020

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How Southasia and Oman intertwined

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa

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How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between