by polity.lk | Feb 19, 2025 | Politics
Words to Kill a Man, and Free a Man Kanya D’Almeida In the early months of 2012, I inherited two troves of literature. I had been hunting for one of them for years; the other arrived unsolicited. The first was an archive of the journalistic work of my uncle, Richard...
by polity.lk | Feb 18, 2025 | Culture
Question – கேள்வி Cheran Rudhramoorthy (trans. Anushiya Ramaswamy) The moon, shredded, hangs onthe fence; midnight.Yama’s messengers,who rend lives,tread on the falling leaves. Demons buried in the wellin the corner of the backyardbrace to emerge now. On this night...
by polity.lk | Feb 5, 2025 | Agrarian Studies
The Hidden Politics of Critical Agrarian Studies: A Reply to Urs Geiser Tom Brass In a recent contribution to Polity, Urs Geiser (2023) endorsed Critical Agrarian Studies (CAS), as an approach he wishes to apply to the study of rural society in Sri Lanka. To this end,...
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,...
