by polity.lk | Sep 8, 2026 | Politics
This Government, That Opposition, and the Work Still Ours Lionel Bopage For sixty-six years, until his death in 2014, the legendary comrade Bala Tampoe led the Ceylon Mercantile Union (CMU)—and turned a clerks’ association into a militant, multi-ethnic vanguard of the...
by polity.lk | Sep 1, 2026 | Statement
Our support for the open letter: To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’ Collective As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state’s prisons and facing its gallows,...
by polity.lk | Aug 18, 2026 | History
Breaking the Spell of an Imperial Photo Album: The Unlikely Beginnings of ‘Colombo Histories’ Sujit Sivasundaram Where one is based in the world, one’s own positionality, the perspective with which one is writing, is crucial to the way research and its politics takes...
by polity.lk | Aug 11, 2026 | Review
State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka. Sunil Bastian. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Bhadrajee Hewage Sunil Bastian’s State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka is an ambitious and intellectually sophisticated reinterpretation of postcolonial Sri Lankan...
by polity.lk | Aug 4, 2026 | Justice
A ‘Duty of Care’ to Animals: Two Decades of Struggle for Law Reform in Sri Lanka Kasun Kavishka In late April 2026, Sri Lanka welcomed Aloka, an Indian stray dog who walked along with US-based Buddhists monks in the corporate-sponsored and state-endorsed ‘Walk for...
