by polity.lk | Dec 24, 2024 | Culture, Apsara Karunaratne, Kiran Grewal, Neloufer de Mel, Ramya Jirasinghe, Ruvani Ranasinha, Vihanga Perera, Vindhya Buthpitiya
Best Reads in 2024Collective A sinister thread of horror, known and unknown, real and imagined, has connected much of what I have read this year. First, The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) by Vajra Chandrasekera was an unexpected favourite. This wittily recounted fever...
by polity.lk | Dec 12, 2024 | Gender
Victims or Saviours? Women in Climate Adapted Agriculture Projects in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone Nethmi Bathige In recent years, both the government of Sri Lanka as well as national and international development organisations have collaborated to implement climate...
by polity.lk | Dec 4, 2024 | Culture
Writing the life of author and filmmaker Hanif Kureishi: race, class and multiculturalism Ruvani Ranasinha “We had been devastated … in ways we didn’t understand by racism” ~ Kureishi, My Ear at His Heart (2004) In 2023, my biography of the British Asian...
by polity.lk | Nov 30, 2024 | Politics
Sri Lanka General Election 2024: How We See It; What We Want Collective In one or two words, describe your reaction to the overall picture from the general election; then go on to explain why. Saturation. Sri Lanka’s electoral system struggles to produce balanced...
by polity.lk | Nov 21, 2024 | Politics
Reading the General Election 2024 Pasan Jayasinghe and Amali Wedagedara The National People’s Power (NPP) has made history. With its unprecedented, record-breaking electoral victory at the general election of 2024, the NPP has succeeded in engineering popular dissent...
