by polity.lk | Sep 25, 2023 | Intervention
In 2024’s elections, lessons from 2015 Devaka Gunawardena Ahead of the 2015 Presidential Elections that were held on 8 January, Mahinda Rajapaksa seemed unlikely to be defeated. Although Maithripala Sirisena had split from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the Rajapaksas...
by polity.lk | Sep 4, 2023 | Review
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan. Manhattan: Random House, 2023 Reviewed by Vasugi Kailasam Brotherless Night is V. V. Ganeshananthan’s second novel. I read this novel in late July 2023, with a fevered reminder of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of...
by polity.lk | Aug 23, 2023 | Essay
Ceylon’s ‘Great Hartal’ of 1953: The Masses Enter History B. Skanthakumar NM Perera addresses Galle Face Rally 23 July 1953 “It was the class struggle in free flow and it constituted the highest point that the class struggle had yet reached in Ceylon”[i] 70 years ago...
by polity.lk | Aug 7, 2023 | Review
Claiming Identity, Dignity, and Justice: Malaiyaha Tamils of Sri Lanka B. Skanthakumar The 150th anniversary of the beginning of the tea industry in British Ceylon was marked in 2017 by a range of government and corporate events, mostly to promote Sri Lanka’s premier...
by polity.lk | Jul 31, 2023 | Editorial
Hyper-Reforms amidst Hyper-Austerity In an ongoing economic crisis whose fundamental causes the ruling class has absolute disinterest in tackling, an unelected President and an illegitimate government are on a legal and policy reform spree. Who can possibly keep up...
