by polity.lk | Dec 30, 2025 | Culture
Best Reads 2025 Collective Ponni Arasu is an independent scholar, activist, expressive arts therapist, translator, and theatre artist. Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025), I found to be cognitively brilliant while lacking in emotional depth. Roy has reached...
by polity.lk | Dec 24, 2025 | Politics
Left Feminism in and after the Aragalaya Chulani Kodikara and Amalini de Sayrah The Aragalaya/Porattam/Struggle of 2022 constitutes an unprecedented event in democratic mobilisation and protest politics in Sri Lanka’s history, culminating in the resignation of...
by polity.lk | Dec 12, 2025 | Labour
Samanmali: A Life on the Frontlines of Women’s Struggles and Working-Class Resistance Kumudini Samuel H. I. Samanmali (‘Saman’) passed away on 11 November, after withstanding years of illness with quiet strength. For those who worked alongside her, her loss is both...
by polity.lk | Dec 10, 2025 | Justice
The Im/Possibility of Justice in the Current Global Order Kiran Kaur Grewal It is such an honour to deliver the 2025 Rajani Thiranagama Memorial Lecture.[1] Having worked in human rights for over 20 years, and in Sri Lanka since 2012, the name Rajani Thiranagama is a...
by polity.lk | Dec 5, 2025 | Ecology
The Great Flood B. Skanthakumar Cyclone Ditwah ripped through Sri Lanka between 27 and 29 November. The toll is devastating. Seven days later, the official count is 486 deaths and 341 missing. To which should be added five navy and one air-force officer killed in...
