by polity.lk | Apr 19, 2023 | Literary
New Year’s Day, Sri Lanka 2022 Vivimarie VanderPoorten My first ganudenuwa[i]This Sinhala and Hindu New yearwas with a hungry manwho rang the doorbellwith his elbowat the auspicious hour formoney transactions.He had had his fingerschopped offand stuck his hands...
by polity.lk | Apr 8, 2023 | Interview
“Women Workers’ Health and Wellbeing Have Never Been a Concern of Plantation Companies” An Interview with Menaha Kandasamy Menaha Kandasamy is the first woman to serve as the President and General Secretary of the Ceylon Plantation Workers’ Union and a Founding Member...
by polity.lk | Apr 4, 2023 | Conference, Discussion
Policy dialogue on Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka A policy dialogue titled, “Recognizing, Reducing, and Redistributing Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka” organized by the Women and Media Collective was held on March 31st, 2023 at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo from 9 am to...
by polity.lk | Mar 30, 2023 | Review
Entangled Lives and the Crisis of Care – Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka. Michele Ruth Gamburd. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2020 Asha L. Abeyasekera Michelle Gamburd’s ethnographic monograph Linked Lives...
by polity.lk | Mar 24, 2023 | Discussion
Seminar series on Critical Agrarian Studies 2023, Seminar 02- “Is the Agrarian Question Dead? Theory, Tendencies and Praxis”, a talk by Dr. Kalpa Rajapaksha “Is the Agrarian Question Dead? Theory, Tendencies and Praxis” The Critical Agrarian Studies seminar series of...
