by polity.lk | Mar 5, 2026 | Justice
Twenty Years of the PDVA: How has it worked for Women? Chulani Kodikara October 2025 marked 20 years since the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act (PDVA) was unanimously passed by parliament. Even though the Act fell short of the expectations of women’s organisations...
by polity.lk | Mar 3, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath: Two Stories and A Review Victor C. de Munck I was an undergraduate, and later a graduate, student of Gananath.[1] I have two stories I would like to recount. The first was as an undergraduate, when I got to know how he taught in class; the second was in Sri...
by polity.lk | Feb 27, 2026 | Culture
Plucking the Stars (நட்சத்திரங்களைப் பறித்தல்). Arulraj Ulaganathan. 2026. B. Skanthakumar Plucking the Stars (நட்சத்திரங்களைப் பறித்தல்) conjures memory from Arulraj Ulaganathan’s childhood on a tea plantation in Haputale, where he was born in 1992 and raised in a...
by polity.lk | Feb 24, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Obeyesekere the Dreamer: Visionary Journeys in Anthropology Anushka Kahandagamage I remember vividly one pattern in my youthful dreams repeated time and again, without too much variation, that of roads amidst green hills and open spaces and people in little Sri Lankan...
by polity.lk | Feb 18, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath Obeyesekere: The Anthropologist and the Historian John D. Rogers I first met Gananath at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Washington DC in March 1984, several weeks after I had returned to the United States after completing my PhD...
