South Asia: April 2010

In Sri Lanka, the Triumph of Vulgar Patriotism

By: Nira Wickramasinghe

Description: “Rajapaksa’s patriotism merges nation and state, and it promotes a love of country based on a particular reading of the Sinhalese people’s foundation myth, a reading in which all other groups . . . are present only as shadows.”

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