Vajra Chandrasekera

Post-Ithaca notes, abbrev. Some recommended reading (essays which you might have missed) and also highlighting small press recs shared with me earlier, which have been super fascinating browsing. More at length later after I finish this talk! vajra.me/2026/03/29/red…

Sri Lanka's Minister of Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Hiniduma Sunil Senevi has pledged to 'consult the defence ministry' that comes under president @anuradisanayake on releasing 360 books from Chennai by Tamil author @Theepachelvan detained by customs authorities

We had a great event! Thank you to everyone who attended and a huge thanks to the wonderful folks at @SAPCornell who organized everything so smoothly.

8 kwietnia za sprawą wydawnictwa Czarna Owca do sprzedaży trafi Święty od papuzich drzwi, powieść urban fantasy nagrodzona Nebulą i Locusem, której autorem jest Vajra Chandrasekera. Zachęcamy do zapoznania się z jej zarysem fabuły! polter.pl/ksiazki/Swiety…

my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.

I’m doing two in-person events in Ithaca, NY in March: I'll be at Cornell talking about speculative fiction on Mar 19 and I'm joining Debbie Urbanski to read for the Ithaca Irrealist Readings on Mar 20. Come say hi if you are Ithaca-adjacent! vajra.me/2026/02/13/spr…

Article sets out ‘specifics’ on problematic provisions, explains why they don’t adhere to human rights standards and can erode civic rights, and thereby shows NPP MPs’ claims draft has ‘considerably increased democratic rights’ is incorrect. ft.lk/columns/Protec… @profbensaul

‘Protection of the State from Terrorism Bill: The Facade of ‘System Change’-my article on the new counter terrorism draft law, which is largely a carbon copy of Counter Terrorism Bill (2018) and Anti Terrorism Bill (2022). A few changes in PSTB make it worse than previous drafts

Reminder! Deadline is Jan 31st, scholarships are available, and Bentota is a beach town.

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Sri Lanka’s Civil War and the Limits of Literature: As new mass graves are exhumed in the country, a veteran journalist who spent years with the Tamil Tigers asks what it means for a narrative to be complete newlinesmag.com/review/sri-lan…

NEW: As new mass graves are exhumed in Sri Lanka, veteran journalist @shyamtekwani, who spent years embedded with the Tamil Tigers, surveys the literature of the country’s civil war and probes the limits of myth and memory, for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/review/sri-lan…

I was the guest fiction editor for two issues of The Deadlands, and here is the result! Hope you enjoy the stories, and please do follow the authors and support this wonderful magazine if you can. These awesome matching covers are by @carlydraws! vajra.me/2026/01/19/the…

@yudhanjaya 🙏🏾!!!

An excellent opportunity; Vajra is a master of both the novel and the short form. Go, apply!

I will be one of the speakers/mentors at the Indian Ocean Writers’ Residency in Bentota, Sri Lanka from July 9‒15 2026. Applications close at the end of January—please do apply if you're interested, and share with anyone else who might be! vajra.me/2026/01/16/ind…

We are thrilled to announce our Spring 2026 Events Calendar. Besides our weekly SAP Seminar series, we are hosting a conversation with author Vajra Chandrasekera, and a conference on The Politics of Culture in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Details at new.express.adobe.com/webpage/uZ0tld…

Here's the document: the Walapane item is at the top! If you're in Sri Lanka, you can do direct bank transfers, and if you're donating from outside, the document has instructions on how to use @Wise docs.google.com/document/d/1nu…

You can help nearly a thousand people in Walapane right now. @Amaliniii's relief initiatives document (see below for link) now includes an urgent item for that. They're trying to raise LKR 1.5M/USD $4.8k for basic food, hygiene, and medical supplies—every little bit helps