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,...
by polity.lk | Jan 17, 2022 | Interview
In and Out of Place: A Conversation between Shyam Selvadurai and Neloufer de Mel This conversation was part of a panel discussion on Imaginative Geographies: The Place of Sri Lanka in Contemporary Sri Lankan Writing in English, featured at the virtual festival on...
by polity.lk | Jan 10, 2022 | Essay
Democracy in the Global Interregnum Devaka Gunawardena The meaning of democracy is becoming unmoored. Since the end of World War II, the US claimed the banner of democracy, while it underwent profound transformation at home through the civil rights movement and other...
