by polity.lk | Sep 3, 2025 | Politics
Man in the Mirror Ruben Thurairajah The photograph came first. Ranil Wickremesinghe walks out of the intensive care unit of Colombo’s National Hospital, a thin smile on his lips, a book raised just high enough for its title to be captured by Harin Fernando’s...
by polity.lk | Aug 27, 2025 | Justice
Chemmani: Where the Soil Speaks, Where Memory Refuses Silence Sakuna M. Gamage The wind returns to the streetteeming with life and death. It hesitates a littleas it crosses the bridge. This wind knows of the dayswhen the water beneath the bridgeglinted in the...
by polity.lk | Aug 20, 2025 | Education
Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: The NPP’s Education Reforms Niyanthini Kadirgamar Estate primary school in disused century-old tea plantation factory building Education occupies a special place in the minds of the general public in Sri Lanka. Thanks to the visionary...
by polity.lk | Aug 14, 2025 | Labour
Magic Maids: Sweeping Up a Storm at the Sorbonne Nadeera Rajapakse After performing in several theatres across Paris, Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera bewitched the spectators, students, and startled passers-by at the Pantheon Centre of the University Paris 1,...
by polity.lk | Aug 6, 2025 | Labour
‘When the Devil Drums We Dance’: Sex Work and Sexual Violence in Wartime Sri LankaRadhika Hettiarachchi In the context of Sri Lanka’s civil war, transactional sex work was a particularly dangerous survival strategy for some women[1]; not least because they bear the...
