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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
