by polity.lk | Sep 23, 2025 | Justice
Family Law and Practice in Sri Lanka: Women’s Declaration Suriya Women’s Development Centre The Women’s Declaration on Family Law and Practice was officially submitted to Minister of Women and Child Affairs Saroja Savithri Paulraj, Minister of Justice and National...
Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Shashik Silva
by polity.lk | Sep 16, 2025 | Politics
Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Sri Lanka Shashik Silva Cleavage politics has emerged as one of the most defining features of Sri Lanka’s party system and political behaviour since independence.[1] Political commentators have...
Man in the Mirror
Ruben Thurairajah
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...
Chemmani: Where the Soil Speaks, Where Memory Refuses Silence
Sakuna M. Gamage
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...
Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: The NPP’s Education Reforms
Niyanthini Kadirgamar
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...