by polity.lk | Sep 16, 2025 | Politics
Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Sri Lanka Shashik Silva Cleavage politics has emerged as one of the most defining features of Sri Lanka’s party system and political behaviour since independence.[1] Political commentators have...
Man in the Mirror
Ruben Thurairajah
by polity.lk | Sep 3, 2025 | Politics
Man in the Mirror Ruben Thurairajah The photograph came first. Ranil Wickremesinghe walks out of the intensive care unit of Colombo’s National Hospital, a thin smile on his lips, a book raised just high enough for its title to be captured by Harin Fernando’s...
Chemmani: Where the Soil Speaks, Where Memory Refuses Silence
Sakuna M. Gamage
by polity.lk | Aug 27, 2025 | Justice
Chemmani: Where the Soil Speaks, Where Memory Refuses Silence Sakuna M. Gamage The wind returns to the streetteeming with life and death. It hesitates a littleas it crosses the bridge. This wind knows of the dayswhen the water beneath the bridgeglinted in the...
Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: The NPP’s Education Reforms
Niyanthini Kadirgamar
by polity.lk | Aug 20, 2025 | Education
Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: The NPP’s Education Reforms Niyanthini Kadirgamar Estate primary school in disused century-old tea plantation factory building Education occupies a special place in the minds of the general public in Sri Lanka. Thanks to the visionary...
Magic Maids: Sweeping Up a Storm at the Sorbonne
Nadeera Rajapakse
by polity.lk | Aug 14, 2025 | Labour
Magic Maids: Sweeping Up a Storm at the Sorbonne Nadeera Rajapakse After performing in several theatres across Paris, Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera bewitched the spectators, students, and startled passers-by at the Pantheon Centre of the University Paris 1,...