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...

Magic Maids: Sweeping Up a Storm at the Sorbonne

Nadeera Rajapakse

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,...

‘When the Devil Drums, We Dance’: Sex Work and Sexual Violence in Wartime Sri Lanka

Radhika Hettiarachchi

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...

Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka. Alexander McKinley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

Anushka Kahandagamage

by polity.lk | Jul 31, 2025 | Religion

Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka. Alexander McKinley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Anushka Kahandagamage Between the lines of this book, the Siripāda mountain emerges not merely as a place, but as a living,...