by polity.lk | Mar 5, 2025 | Education
Unveiling ‘Privatisation’ in Higher Education in Sri LankaKaushalya Perera and Hasini Lecamwasam The public discourse on higher education in Sri Lanka cleaves along the false dichotomy of public versus private universities, which masks the many subtle ways and forms...
by polity.lk | Mar 1, 2025 | Culture
Rani: The Politics of Erasure and the Aesthetics of ForgettingPrasanna Pitigala Liyanage and Malithi Liyanage Cinema does not merely reflect history; it remakes itWhat appears on screen influences what is remembered and what is forgotten. Film scholar Pierre Sorlin,...
by polity.lk | Feb 28, 2025 | Culture
Asoka Handagama’s Rani: Diminishing Struggles Against Enforced Disappearances S. Janaka Biyanwila The film Rani (2025, Lyca Productions) by Asoka Handagama based on the character of Manorani Saravanamuttu, a medical doctor and a social activist, was released recently...
by polity.lk | Feb 27, 2025 | Culture
Richard de Zoysa in the Classroom Vihanga Perera Richard de Zoysa was abducted from his home on the night of 18 February 1990, brutally killed, and body discarded. Later it was established that the crime was committed by state-sponsored paramilitaries, though no...
by polity.lk | Feb 25, 2025 | Politics
The Ritual Sacrifice of Richard de Zoysa: “Not really one of us, hence one of them” Dhanuka Bandara In Violence and the Sacred, René Girard (1979) understands ritual sacrifice as a means of stalling the cycle of vengeance. What is sacrificed—person or otherwise—is not...
