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By Dr. Punsara Amarasinghe
The recent visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Sri Lanka is the first-ever visit by a sitting French President to the island nation. However, the historical relations between the two countries reach up to the early 18th century signifying the French roots in Sri Lanka.
Undoubtedly, France arose as one of the first Nation-States in Europe in the 18th century under...
The writings critiquing Western knowledge and the West’s depiction of Asia often receive a higher admiration from the academia in the Global South as profound attempts that try to question the currents. Thus, criticising the Western domination in sciences and cultures seems to have become a kind of a populist way of gaining a scholarly baptism as a Southern intellectual,...