by polity.lk | Dec 30, 2025 | Culture
Best Reads 2025 Collective Ponni Arasu is an independent scholar, activist, expressive arts therapist, translator, and theatre artist. Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025), I found to be cognitively brilliant while lacking in emotional depth. Roy has reached...
by polity.lk | Oct 28, 2025 | Culture
“There is nothing inherently liberatory in the imagination, but it must be made so” Vajra Chandrasekera From the Editors: Our warm congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera, whose writing we have been pleased to feature, on the honour of receiving the 2025 Ursula K. Le...
by polity.lk | Jul 17, 2025 | Culture
The ‘Radical Impulse’ in Music in Pre- and Post-Partition India Sumangala Damodaran From its second decade, the 20th century saw the need for a people’s art, a need to represent, unearth, popularise, and express through forms that emerged from and belonged to ‘the...
by polity.lk | Mar 1, 2025 | Culture
Rani: The Politics of Erasure and the Aesthetics of ForgettingPrasanna Pitigala Liyanage and Malithi Liyanage Cinema does not merely reflect history; it remakes itWhat appears on screen influences what is remembered and what is forgotten. Film scholar Pierre Sorlin,...
by polity.lk | Feb 28, 2025 | Culture
Asoka Handagama’s Rani: Diminishing Struggles Against Enforced Disappearances S. Janaka Biyanwila The film Rani (2025, Lyca Productions) by Asoka Handagama based on the character of Manorani Saravanamuttu, a medical doctor and a social activist, was released recently...
by polity.lk | Feb 27, 2025 | Culture
Richard de Zoysa in the Classroom Vihanga Perera Richard de Zoysa was abducted from his home on the night of 18 February 1990, brutally killed, and body discarded. Later it was established that the crime was committed by state-sponsored paramilitaries, though no...
