News, updates, and upcoming talks
	6 Feb 2022: New article: Rendering Politics Legible in Development: Can the Anti-Politics Machine be Dismantled? (forthcoming in New Political Economy)
	19 Jan 2022: New article: Ethnic Domination under Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka (forthcoming in the Journal of Contemporary Asia)  [download pre-publication draft]
	30 Oct 2020: New article - Rendering Politics Legible in Development: Can the Anti- Politics Machine be Dismantled? (UNDER REVIEW)
	31 Aug 2019 - Srinagar Diary - my article on Kashmir in the Independent.
	20 Feb 2019 - Princeton 430pm- I'll be speaking at Princeton about my Sri Lanka book ; 144 Louis A. Sampson International Building  [unfortunately snowed out]
	18 Feb 2019 - Cornell - I'll be speaking at Cornell about my Sri Lanka book ; 144 Louis A. Sampson International Building
	22 Jan 2019 - LSE Event - 5pm Book Release; 630pm Panel Discussion: My book release at LSE, plus a panel on the aftermath of the constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka. Speakers include Prof David Keen, Dr. Alessandra Radicati, Dr. Farzana Haniffa, Iromi Perera, Vindhya Buthpitiya.
	4 Dec 2018 - The Political Crisis in Sri Lanka [I'll be speaking at Oxford on a panel with Asanga Welikala, Kate Sullivan-Estrada, Gehan Gunatilleka. Thanks to Shamara Wettimuny for organising and inviting me.
	28 Nov 2018 - LSE Departmental seminar - I'll be talking on Ineptitude, Ignorance, Intent: The Social Construction of Failure in Development.
	9 Nov 2018 - The Second Coming of Mahinda Rajapaksa - my article on Sri Lanka's constitutional crisis in thewire.in.
	22 Oct 2018 - Book release event in Sri Lanka:  International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo: Many thanks to my discussants Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, and Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda.
	7 Sept 2018 - Book release at the Sri Lanka Roundtable in Zurich.  Many thanks to Pia Hollenbach and Christine Schenk
	24 Aug 2018 - my book, many years in the making: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Development in Sri Lanka is now out with Cambridge University Press. It is available in India and will be available in the US and UK by October.
	25 June 2018 - Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia -  final workshop in London. We also have a new website http://peacebuildingasia.org/
	6 June 2018 - I will be talking about Parallel Governance and Political Order in Contested Territory: The Indo-Naga Ceasefire. at the LSE's CPAID seminar [thanks to Teddy Brett for inviting me].
	18 April 2018 - Shalaka Thakur and Rajesh Venugopal: Parallel Governance and Political Order in Contested Territory: The Indo-Naga Ceasefire. Asian Security (pre-published online).
	4-5 April 2018 - Colombo Development Dialogues - Masterclass and panel discussion on Sri Lanka's development challenges with UNDP and LSE's South Asia Centre. .
	14 March 2018 - Oxford Development Studies has awarded my article on the 2014 Floods in Kashmir (with Sameer Yasir) the Sanjaya Lall memorial prize for the best article of the year. [announcement]. NB: Sanjaya Lall was actually my MSc supervisor, tutor, and mentor, so really pleased to receive a prize in his name.
	16 January 2018 - My new article - Ineptitude, Ignorance, or Intent? The Social Construction of Development Failure is out in World Development. Pre-publication draft here
	10 January 2018 - UK Cabinet Office - Can Sri Lanka's New Constitution End the Legacy of Ethnic Conflict?  [Talk at the Constitution Unit].
	7 - 10 December 2017 - The second in our ESRC-funded series of events on Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia workshop, Gadja Mada University, Yogyakarta.
	31 October 2017 - South Asia seminar, Oxford: I will be speaking on Parallel Governance and Political Order in the Indo-Naga Ceasefire.
	30 October 2017 - I was interviewed for BBC World Service The Inquiry - How do you end a civil war?
	11 September 2017 - I'll be speaking on authoritarian and ethnic conflict transitions at the Manchester Peacebuliding conference
	30 June - 1 July 2017 - Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia workshop - co-sponsored by ONUR and BCIS. BCIS, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
	15 March 2017 - The Changing Face of Rural Sri Lanka - workshop in Colombo in collaboration with the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA).
	2 January 2017 - New ESRC/GCRF grant funding to build an academic network on Peacebuilding in Asia: Liberal and Illiberal Transitions from Ethnic Conflict and Authoritarianism. With colleagues Claire Smith, Nich Farrelly, Najib Azca, Lars Waldorf and partners ONUR in Sri Lanka, University Gadja Mada in Indonesia. First event in Sri Lanka June 2017, Indonesia December 2017, London July 2018.
	1 August 2016 - A new paper, 'The Politics of Natural Disasters in Protracted Conflict: The 2014 Floods in Kashmir', co-authored with Sameer Yasir of IUST, Kashmir,  is coming out in Oxford Development Studies. Pre-publication draft here.
	29 March - 2 April 2016: AAG San Francisco - Situating Neoliberalism (thanks to Kean Birch and Simon Springer for inviting me to be on their panel)
	25 October 2015:  The Politics of Sinhala Nationalism - my talk at the South Asia Studies conference, Madison Wisconsin
	19 August 2015: Demonic Violence and Moral Panic in Post-War Sri Lanka [My article on the grease devils is out in the Journal of Asian Studies].
	29-30 June 2015: Myanmar: States of Peace in Asia - my colleagues Claire Smith (York) and Nich Farrelly (ANU) and I organised a workshop on comparative peacebuilding in Asia in collaboration with the University of Yangon.
	21 May 2015: Democracy, Development and the Executive Presidency in Sri Lanka [new journal article in Third World Quarterly .
	1 May 2015: Neoliberalism as Concept - [article in Economy & Society - conceived in 2012, written in 2013, accepted in 2014...is finally out].
	11 January  2015 Clear Mandate, Unclear Future: 8 takeaways from Sri Lanka Presidential Elections (my article on the Sri Lankan elections in Firstpost.com)
	11-12 December 2014 @ University of Amsterdam Sri Lanka Roundtable: my paper on Sri Lanka's Executive Presidency [Special thanks to Joeri Scholtens, Maarten Bavinck and all attendees].
	10 December 2014 @ I'll be speaking at the SOAS Anthropology Department Seminar 3pm-5pm, room G51. [Many thanks to Fabio Gygi and the participants for very thoughtful comments and reflections].
	10 Nov 2014  @ Sage India.  My chapter on military fiscalism in new book: Sundar, A., and Sundar N. (2014) Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development.
	1-3 Sept 2014  @ Colombo Sri Lanka. I will be talking about 'The Macro-Political Economy of Post-War Development' at the CEPA-SLRC Symposium - Post-War Development in Asia and Africa: Colombo, Sri Lanka.
	Wed 20 August 2014 @JNU, New Delhi (Centre for Political Studies). I will be giving a talk titled 'Explaining Violence, Crisis and Dysfunctionality in the Social Sciences'  [Thanks to Profs Amir Ali and Rajarshi Dasgupta for inviting me, and the participants for an engaging conversation]
	Wed 18 June 2014  I talked about Economic Development and the Executive Presidency at the University of Zurich. [Thanks to Bart Klem and Benedikt Korf for inviting me and all the participants for your thoughtful responses]
	Fri 23 May 2014 @ Groundviews.com.  India's elections, Modi and Baby-Doll: Yenjai.  Link 1  Link 2
	Wed 9th April 2014 @ Yale. Luce Hall Room 203 at 430pm. I will be talking on Violence, Demons and Moral Panic in Sri Lanka at the South Asia Colloquium. The paper on which the talk is based is downloadable here. Thanks to Prof Shivi Sivaramakrishnan for inviting me & to the participants for comments and critical engagement & esp to the Sri Lankan students.
	Thursday 6 March 2014 @ Oxford.  [rescheduled from last term] I am back for a seminar at my old mother-lode, QEH, Oxford. Thanks to Mathew McCartney for inviting me. Great to meet old colleagues, profs, and friends@QEH, and thanks all the participants for their challenging and engaging comments.