by polity.lk | Mar 13, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath’s Tryst with Lawyers Radhika Coomaraswamy After the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) was set up in 1982, it gradually became a dynamic centre for the interaction between lawyers and social scientists, especially anthropologists. Led by Dr....
by polity.lk | Mar 10, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
An Accidental Education with Gananath Obeyesekere Mark P. Whitaker I must begin with an embarrassing admission. Although Gananath Obeyesekere became my PhD thesis supervisor in 1981, our association was accidental; or perhaps I should say fortuitously...
by polity.lk | Mar 5, 2026 | Justice
Twenty Years of the PDVA: How has it worked for Women? Chulani Kodikara October 2025 marked 20 years since the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act (PDVA) was unanimously passed by parliament. Even though the Act fell short of the expectations of women’s organisations...
by polity.lk | Mar 3, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath: Two Stories and A Review Victor C. de Munck I was an undergraduate, and later a graduate, student of Gananath.[1] I have two stories I would like to recount. The first was as an undergraduate, when I got to know how he taught in class; the second was in Sri...
by polity.lk | Feb 27, 2026 | Culture
Plucking the Stars (நட்சத்திரங்களைப் பறித்தல்). Arulraj Ulaganathan. 2026. B. Skanthakumar Plucking the Stars (நட்சத்திரங்களைப் பறித்தல்) conjures memory from Arulraj Ulaganathan’s childhood on a tea plantation in Haputale, where he was born in 1992 and raised in a...
