On March 25, the renowned Sri Lankan social anthropologist Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere of Princeton University, passed away ...

An aftershock yesterday struck Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, near the epicenter of the initial quake, toppling ...

His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and ...

Photo courtesy of The Island In my tribute to her last week, I noted that Sumitra Peries belonged to a generation which also ...

For his students and others who derive inspiration from his life, research, publications and lectures, in shot by his very being, Gananath has set very high scholarly standards. He encouraged critical ...

Emeritus professor of anthropology Gananath Obeyesekere has passed away at the age of 95. Obeyesekere, a renowned professor ...

Photo courtesy of The Island Professor Gananath Obeyesekere was an excellent teacher, researcher and scholar as well as an ...

Gananath Obeyesekere’s contribution to anthropology is vast and varied, and few have combined theory and empirical fact so skillfully as he has done. At the time he graduated from the University of ...

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has raised concerns over Sri Lanka’s failure to move forward with large-scale foreign ...

On March 7, last week, the BMC issued a notice announcing that between March 10 and March 18 it will conduct inspection of water connections in pockets of Shivaji Nagar, Gananath Colony, Lotus Colong ...

To learn from the insights, we browsed through once again the pages of “The Doomed King: A Requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinghe”, where the eminent author/anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere had ...