by polity.lk | Nov 20, 2023 | Intervention
Why 2024 Will Not Be 2015 Redux Ramindu Perera Amidst the woes of a deepening economic crisis and the disastrous effect of International Monetary Fund-dictated austerity measures, Sri Lanka is passing through a tremendous political crisis. On the one hand, the...
Fault Lines in Indian Agriculture: Solidarities and Contradictions in Southern Haryana
Srishti Yadav
by polity.lk | Oct 30, 2023 | Essay
Fault Lines in Indian Agriculture: Solidarities and Contradictions in Southern HaryanaSrishti Yadav November 2023 marks three years of the historic farmers’ protests in India that captured the imagination of people in India and around the world; and two years since...
Reflections on Critical Agrarian Studies in Sri Lanka
Urs Geiser
by polity.lk | Oct 23, 2023 | Essay
Reflections on Critical Agrarian Studies in Sri LankaUrs Geiser In this essay, my aim is to reflect on the situation in Sri Lanka’s agrarian sphere, through the gaze of ‘critical agrarian studies’.[i] I begin with a glance at related discourses during the 1970s and...
Gaza: Into the Abyss
Devaka Gunawardena
by polity.lk | Oct 18, 2023 | Intervention
Gaza: Into the Abyss Devaka Gunawardena Gaza and the wider world are heading into an abyss. With the announcement and preparation of Israel’s invasion of Gaza in response to a massacre by Hamas, longstanding fears appear to be on the verge of realisation. The...
A Hundred Years of Pauline and C. R. (Dick) Hensman
Rohini Hensman
by polity.lk | Oct 9, 2023 | Essay
A Hundred Years of Pauline and C. R. (Dick) Hensman Rohini Hensman Dick and Pauline Hensman, Mount Lavinia, 1982 The birth anniversaries of Pauline Hensman (née Swan) and Dick Hensman occurred over the course of the past year. This attempt to provide an overview of...