by polity.lk | Jun 25, 2021 | From the Archive
The Moral Mother Syndrome Malathi de Alwis I was in a trishaw recently trying out my discussion topic of the month — social violence — when the driver suddenly launched into a passionate tirade that the reason for all the violence within our society was that...
by polity.lk | Jun 21, 2021 | From the Archive
A Flippant Gesture Towards Sri Lanka: A Review of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost Qadri Ismail Novels like all other texts take sides. Literary orthodoxy may hold, still, that fiction must be read and evaluated on purely aesthetic grounds. But leftist literary...
by polity.lk | Jun 15, 2021 | Essay
Identity Formation in the Sinhalese Transnational Community in Toronto, Canada Sankajaya Nanayakkara The current literature on diaspora makes a break from the old assimilationist and methodologically nationalist perspective on migration. The older perspective took the...
by polity.lk | Jun 15, 2021 | Review
Like Water to Soil: ‘Paangshu’ Between Politics and Rights Prabha Manuratne The director of the film Paangshu, Visakesa Chandrasekaram describes how his encounter with human rights violations in Sri Lanka made a deep impact on him, and remembers the image of a mother...
by polity.lk | Jun 13, 2021 | Review
Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka. Mythri Jegathesan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 288 pp Reviewed by Nadia Augustyniak As anthropology continues to grapple with the colonial, racialised, and exploitative undercurrents of...
