by polity.lk | Jun 27, 2022 | Speech
We are “Our Own Crisis”: Locating the ‘Crisis in Education’ Jagath Weerasinghe This is the text of a keynote speech delivered at the Undergraduate Research Congress of the Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya held on 31 May 2022. Making a keynote speech at this...
by polity.lk | Jun 20, 2022 | Intervention
What Does Increasing the Participation of Women in the Economy Mean? Devaka Gunawardena Experts keen to endorse the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) tentative programme for Sri Lanka have attempted to highlight the supposedly progressive aspects of its intervention...
by polity.lk | Jun 13, 2022 | Essay
Democracy: A Feminist Perspective V. Geetha The Rajani Thiranagama Memorial Lecture was delivered in Tamil by V. Geetha on 2 October 2021. When I was invited to deliver a lecture on the occasion of Rajani Thiranagama’s death anniversary, I felt honoured. Contemplating...
by polity.lk | Jun 6, 2022 | Review
The Changing Role of Caste in Northern Sri Lanka. Thiruchandran, Selvy. Caste and its Multiple Manifestations: A Study of the Caste System in Northern Sri Lanka. Colombo: Bay Owl Press, 2021, pp. 231 + xii Reviewed by Kalinga Tudor Silva Caste in Sri Lanka is...
by polity.lk | Jun 1, 2022 | Intervention
What is this Crisis? Ahilan Kadirgamar Dr. Ahilan Kadirgamar made this presentation at an online discussion on the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka, organised by the Kuppi Collective on April 26, 2022. It was transcribed by Treshan Fernando and edited for...
