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POSTS BY Dinesha Samararatne
25 September 2026

Why I Write

I am not an award-winning writer or scholar. I live and work in conditions that are endlessly generative in terms of ideas that I could write about, and still, those very same conditions make it almost impossible to write. I write because I have come to know that it is a way in which I experience my humanness and a way in which I connect with the humanness of others across time and space. Perhaps this is why, for my writing, I do not use AI, at least not intentionally and not yet. Continue reading >>
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25 September 2026

Warum ich schreibe

Ich bin weder preisgekrönte Autorin noch gefeierte Wissenschaftlerin. Ich lebe und arbeite unter Bedingungen, die mir unendlich viel Schreibstoff liefern. Doch sind es genau diese Bedingungen, die mir das Schreiben fast unmöglich machen. Und trotzdem schreibe ich. Beim Schreiben erfahre ich, was es heißt, Mensch zu sein, und dass ich mich so mit anderen verbinde, über Zeit und Raum hinweg. Vielleicht nutze ich deshalb beim Schreiben keine KI. Jedenfalls nicht absichtlich, und jedenfalls noch nicht. Continue reading >>
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15 July 2022

Das Volk im Palast

Über Aragalaya und die Verfassung

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15 July 2022

The People in the Palace

On Aragalaya and the Constitution

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05 May 2022

Constitutional Ping-Pong

Sri Lanka is at a moment of reckoning, with its political class, its public institutions and with its collective identity. The rupture caused by this unprecedented and tragic crisis has brought the country to a unique political moment in which the majority of Sri Lankans are demanding and imagining a better collective future. For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, the demands for constitutional governance articulated through traditions of protest and dissent expressed mostly by marginalized groups are now being echoed by the mainstream. Continue reading >>
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