by polity.lk | Jul 21, 2026 | Politics
DBS Jeyaraj: The Witness in Exile Ruben Thurairajah He died in Canada, and the news arrived with a certain administrative neatness, as though it was an update rather than an ending. There was nothing theatrical about it; no climactic closure that literature prefers....
by polity.lk | Jul 14, 2026 | Culture
Literature and the Politics of Plural Identity, in and beyond Sri Lanka Nadeera Rajapakse Two Sri Lankan writers: Antonythasan Jesuthasan in 2026 and Shehan Karunatilaka in 2025, have been awarded in consecutive years the Prix Émile Guimet, the French prize for Asian...
by polity.lk | Jul 7, 2026 | Review
Dear Children, Sincerely: Seven Decades of Sri Lanka. Stages Theatre Group. Colombo. 2026. Shannon Constantine An ensemble mimes bus passengers and their conductor: some have their arms raised as if grasping bus rails, while their driver bends over an imaginary wheel,...
by polity.lk | Jul 1, 2026 | Agrarian Studies
“Peasant Politics” and the War in Sri Lanka Benedikt Korf Agrarian relations can tell us something fundamental about politics.[1] This is what I have learned from the work of James Brow, Mick Moore, Tudor Silva, and Serena Tennekoon. “Peasant politics” is about more...
by polity.lk | Jun 23, 2026 | Review
Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath. S. Shakthidharan. Sydney: Powerhouse, 2025. Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera Some years ago, I contributed a foreword to A Sense of Viidu, an anthology of writing on Tamil diasporic re-creations of home (viidu) edited by Niro...
