by polity.lk | Feb 27, 2026 | Culture
Plucking the Stars (நட்சத்திரங்களைப் பறித்தல்). Arulraj Ulaganathan. 2026. B. Skanthakumar Plucking the Stars (நட்சத்திரங்களைப் பறித்தல்) conjures memory from Arulraj Ulaganathan’s childhood on a tea plantation in Haputale, where he was born in 1992 and raised in a...
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...
