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Literature
Unearthing meaning from the pages that shape civilizations.
Read essays A reading magazine · From Colombo
Read to analyse, analyse to connect.
Hi, I'm Awarjitha. This is where I synthesize ideas drawn from both non-fiction and fiction — digging past the theory to connect it with the world we actually live in.
Now reading
Calvino — Why Read the Classics?
Essays · Conversations
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forthcoming
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What I write about
Six lenses, read against one another.
The interesting ideas live in the margins between disciplines — so I read across all of them, and write where they meet.
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Philosophy
Questioning the foundations upon which we build our truths.
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Politics
Decoding power structures through critical and historical lenses.
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Economics
Understanding the invisible forces that govern our material lives.
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Psychology
Peering beneath the surface to understand what truly drives human behaviour.
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Technology
Examining how the tools we build quietly remake the way we think, live, and connect.
Read essays About
Awarjitha Edirisooriya.
I'm a curious reader who loves content and textual analysis in equal measure — happiest when I'm connecting the dots between ideas that don't obviously belong together.
For those keen on my academic background
Available for commissioned writing → I'm currently pursuing a Master of Human Rights and Democratisation at the University of Colombo, and I hold a BSc. in International Relations from Girne American University — along with two diplomas, in journalism and cross-cultural literature.
Forthcoming
Published when ready.
Each one ships the day it earns its place — researched until it holds, revised until it sings, then sent. Slow because it’s made to last.
Literature × Psychology
Featured
The Unreliable Reader
A second reading is not the first reading made wiser — it is a different cosmology entirely.
Politics × Philosophy
In preparation
Constitutional Patience
How long a constitution can stand silent before its silence becomes the loudest thing about it.
Psychology × Literature
In preparation
Mourning, Re-read
On grief's textual habits — the books we re-read when someone dies are the books we are mourning.
Literature
In preparation
The Translator's Loyalties
Every translator is a critic; the disloyalty is in the choice of which loyalty to keep.
Economics × Philosophy
In preparation
What the Market Cannot Say
What the price tag teaches and what it cannot — written between Polanyi and the supermarket aisle.
Nothing under preparation in that discipline just yet — try another.
The Conversation · A series in preparation
One question, one expert, one published exchange.
Long-form interviews with academics and practitioners working at the intersections I read across — comparative literature, political theory, behavioural economics, clinical psychology. Each piece grows from a single question; the published exchange is the answer that question deserved.
If you are an academic or practitioner whose work belongs in one of these conversations — write to me.
Questions the format begins from
- 1 What did you used to be certain about that you would now choose to argue against?
- 2 Which book do you most often cite from memory, and which line did your memory rewrite?
- 3 When did your discipline last surprise you by being wrong on its own terms?
On the desk · Currently
What I'm working on right now.
Reading
Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics?
Re-reading the title essay for a third or fourth time — the one about the canon as the books you keep noticing in spite of yourself.
Drafting
The Unreliable Reader
Second draft. The essay keeps wanting to be about loyalty rather than memory; I am not yet sure which version is the right one.
Wondering about
The economics of attention
Whether "attention economy" is even a coherent frame, or whether the metaphor smuggles in assumptions the data has not earned.
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From my desk
A short list of commissioned work I take on between essays — brand storytelling, copywriting, content writing for considered brands, cultural institutions, and organisations whose words should sound like someone actually thought about them. The voice you read here is the voice I'll write yours in.
Brand storytelling
Long-form origin and editorial pieces.
Recent for an independent fashion house
Copywriting
Short-form for considered brands.
Recent for a cultural institution in Colombo
Content writing
Essays, briefs, research-backed copy.
Recent for a regional policy NGO
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