by polity.lk | Jan 7, 2026 | Politics
Year One of the NPP Government: Some Heretical Thoughts Jayadeva Uyangoda By the third week of November 2025, the National People’s Power (NPP) has completed its first year as Sri Lanka’s new government, generating mixed reactions. The media has been saturated with...
by polity.lk | Jan 6, 2026 | Polity Archive
Polity Vol 13 No. 1 (June 2025) Contents There is Great Disorder Under Heaven – Editorial The NPP Government and Its Democratic Promise: A Review – Jayadeva Uyangoda The Revival of the JVP after 1989 – Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri System Stability Not...
by polity.lk | Jan 1, 2026 | Blog
Top 20 Articles read in 2025 ‘When the Devil Drums, We Dance’: Sex Work and Sexual Violence in Wartime Sri Lanka – Radhika Hettiarachchi Man in the Mirror – Ruben Thurairajah Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi Sex Workers....
by polity.lk | Dec 30, 2025 | Culture
Best Reads 2025 Collective Ponni Arasu is an independent scholar, activist, expressive arts therapist, translator, and theatre artist. Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025), I found to be cognitively brilliant while lacking in emotional depth. Roy has reached...
by polity.lk | Dec 24, 2025 | Politics
Left Feminism in and after the Aragalaya Chulani Kodikara and Amalini de Sayrah The Aragalaya/Porattam/Struggle of 2022 constitutes an unprecedented event in democratic mobilisation and protest politics in Sri Lanka’s history, culminating in the resignation of...
