by polity.lk | Feb 18, 2022 | Speech
Relevance of an Alternative Film-Culture Today Laleen Jayamanne Thank you for inviting me to speak on Dharmasena Pathiraja’s fourth death anniversary, on the ‘Relevance of an Alternative Film-Culture Today’, the topic suggested to me by the organisers. My talk has two...
by polity.lk | Feb 9, 2022 | Review
A History of Unfortunate Circumstances Hasini A. Haputhanthri‘A Day in July 2019’ by Rajitha Dissanayake, 2022, Lionel Wendt, Colombo This play has been long in the making. A string of unfortunate circumstances induced by the pandemic resulted in the postponement of...
by polity.lk | Feb 3, 2022 | Review
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India. Geoffrey Redding. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 240 pp Reviewed by Farzana Haniffa Redding’s book lays out the manner in which regardless of the horrendous anti- Muslim violence...
by polity.lk | Jan 28, 2022 | Literary
A Feast of Words Minoli Salgado for Sandya Ekneligoda The writers were at the table, eating each other’s words. Delicate morsels of sliced crime, tangy segments of romance, silver spoonerisms washed down with a glass of iced humour that turned the lips green. ‘How...
by polity.lk | Jan 24, 2022 | Essay
Dissident Memory and Democratic Citizenship: Sandya Ekneligoda and Her Struggle for Justice Chulani Kodikara Sandya Ekneligoda holding a flame and trident (24 January 2019). (Photo: Nilshan Fernando) Prageeth Ekneligoda, journalist, cartoonist, and political activist,...
