by polity.lk | Jul 17, 2025 | Culture
The ‘Radical Impulse’ in Music in Pre- and Post-Partition India Sumangala Damodaran From its second decade, the 20th century saw the need for a people’s art, a need to represent, unearth, popularise, and express through forms that emerged from and belonged to ‘the...
by polity.lk | Jul 8, 2025 | Blog
On the Life and Work of Gananath Obeyesekere – Call for Articles Polity magazine invites contributions for a forum dedicated to the life, scholarship, and intellectual legacy of Professor Gananath Obeyesekere (02 February 1930–25 March 2025), longtime friend of...
by polity.lk | Jul 1, 2025 | Polity Archive
Polity Vol. 12 No. 2 Compass on an Old Course? – Editorial Settler Tourism and the Threat of Terror – Praveen Tilakaratne and Tamara Fernando Aragalaya: Struggle for Space and the Spaces of the Struggle – Nihal Perera Soft Authoritarianism,...
by polity.lk | Jun 30, 2025 | Economy
The development of S.B.D. de Silva’s political economy Shiran Illanperuma For those who knew him or have read his work, the late S.B.D. de Silva could be considered one of the greatest political economists ever produced by Sri Lanka. In fact, many might say that he is...
by polity.lk | Jun 24, 2025 | Politics
Aid Interrupted: Reverberations in Sri Lanka of USAID’s Dismantling Sandunlekha Ekanayake Trump’s ‘America First’ doctrineIn a shocking move, President Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ right-wing populism and economic nativism has led to defunding the United States (US)...
