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Four questions I keep returning to.

My research starts from existentialism and moves outward, through fieldwork, into culture, place and belief in Sri Lanka.

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Existentialism & Freedom

How do people act freely inside structures that limit them? I read Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus alongside Sri Lankan life: the 2022 Aragalaya protests, the everyday negotiation of dominance, and the search for an authentic gender identity.

2025Existentialism in the Sri Lankan Context: Reflections on Freedom, Agency, and Resistance in the Aragalaya Movement2024Understanding Day to Day Dominance and Resistance through an Existential Lens2023Exploring Authenticity of Gender Identity through an Existential Lens
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Technology & Anxiety

Artificial intelligence is changing work, attention and self-image faster than our vocabulary for it. This strand asks whether the rise of AI is also a rise in existential anxiety, and what philosophy can offer in response.

2025The Correlation Between the Growth of Artificial Intelligence and Rising Existential Anxiety in the AI Powered Digital Age
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Culture, Place & Ecology

Fieldwork-led research on how places are made and sold: heritage in the Sinharaja rainforest, urban space claimed by beggars, war tourism along the A9 to Jaffna, and Vedda beliefs about life and death.

2024Life and Death: An Inquiry into the Thoughts and Beliefs of the Vedda Community in Sri Lanka2024Commodification of World Heritage: A Case Study of Sinharaja Rainforest, Sri Lanka2024Production of Places through Occupying Urban Spaces by Beggars2023War Tourism, Boats and Identity, Tragedy but Colorful
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Religion & Mind

Religion as a philosophical and psychological fact: Jung’s collective unconscious and the idea of God, the medieval church and philosophy, and traditional ritual in contemporary Sri Lanka.

2023The Universal Meaning behind the Concept of ‘God’ in Relation to the Jungian Idea of Collective Unconsciousness2023Was Philosophy and Church Independent in the Middle Ages?2021A Comparison between Traditional Rituals in Contemporary Sri Lanka with Western Culture: A Cultural Psychological Analysis

Fieldwork

JaffnaCulture, identity and space along the A9, using an ethnographic approach.
Ratnapura & KuragalaRitual and doctrine at the Maha Saman Devalaya, Kuragala Temple and the Sufi Mosque.
SinharajaThe political ecology of a World Heritage rainforest.