Polity Vol 13 No. 2 (December 2025) Polity Archive Contents Governing in Anticipation of Backlash by Editors The Great Flood by B. Skanthakumar FCEJ Stands in Support of the Birds, the Land, and the People of Mannar by Feminist Collective for Economic Justice Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30 by Peoples’ Summit Man in the Mirror by Ruben Thurairajah One Year On: Reading the NPP “From Below and to the Left” by anaka Biyanwila Year One of the NPP Government: Some Heretical Thought by Jayadeva Uyangoda Gehenu Api Eka Mitata: Building a Women’s Political Movement in Sri Lanka Left Feminism in and after the Aragalaya Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Sri Lanka by Shashik Silva ‘Dead Catting’: Manufacturing Moral Panic in Sri Lanka by Ruben Thurairajah Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: The NPP’s Education Reforms by Niyanthini Kadirgamar End the Microfinance Menace! No to the New Bill! by Feminist Collective for Economic Justice The (Im)Possibility of Justice in the Current Global Order by Kiran Kaur Grewal Chemmani: Where the Soil Speaks, Where Memory Refuses Silence by Sakuna M. Gamage Family Law and Practice in Sri Lanka: Women’s Declaration by Suriya Women’s Development Centre Twenty Years of the PDVA: How Has it Worked for Women? by Chulani Kodikara Reflecting Back and Looking Forward: 20 Years Since the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act by Thahira Cader and Raaya Gomez Safety is Not a Wall: Beyond Protection from Domestic Violence by Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage Of Heroes and Villains: Dutugemunu and Prabhakaran by Ruben Thurairajah Dying for the Target by Ishankha Singha Arachchi Comrade H. I. Samanmali: She Who Rose Beyond Siloed Struggles, Leaving a Legacy That Lives On in Every Feminist and Labour Movement by Dabindu Collective Samanmali: A Life on the Frontlines of Women’s Struggles and WorkingClass Resistance by Kumudini Samuel ‘When the Devil Drums, We Dance’: Sex Work and Sexual Violence in Wartime Sri Lanka Radhika Hettiarachchi Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi Sex Workers. Kaushalya Ariyarathne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. by F. Zahrah Rizwan Magic Maids: Sweeping Up a Storm at the Sorbonne by Nadeera Rajapakse Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka. Alexander McKinley. Columbia University Press, 2024. by Anushka Kahandagamage The ‘Radical Impulse’ in Music in Pre- and Post-Partition India by Sumangala Damodaran Best Reads in 2025 by Collective
