by polity.lk | Jan 30, 2025 | Editorial, B. Skanthakumar, Chulani Kodikara, Rebecca Surenthiraraj
Editorial: Compass on an Old Course? Editors One hundred days have passed since Anura Kumara Dissanayake assumed the presidency of Sri Lanka after the 21 September election, subsequently leading the National People’s Power (NPP) to an overwhelming victory in the...
by polity.lk | Jan 25, 2025 | Culture
Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-2024): Parsi Pakistani writer between Lahore, Partition, and the US Arif Azad Bapsi Sidhwa, who died aged 86 in Houston, Texas on 25 December 2024, was Pakistan’s pioneering woman fiction writer in English who rose to regional and global fame,...
by polity.lk | Jan 20, 2025 | Polity Archive
Polity Vol. 12 No. 1 THE CONJUNCTURE IN THE CRISIS – B. Skanthakumar WHERE DOES PEACE REST? – Natasha Ranawake ZIONISM IN CRISIS AFTER OCTOBER 7? WHAT CRISIS? – Neve Gordon TWO CONCEPTIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY – Rohini Hensman RESISTING GENOCIDE...
by polity.lk | Jan 15, 2025 | Politics
The NPP Government and Its Democratic Promise: A Review Jayadeva Uyangoda How democratic will the National People’s Power (NPP) government be? How faithful will the NPP leaders – whose political careers began in the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) with a background of...
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...
