by polity.lk | Dec 24, 2024 | Culture
Best Reads in 2024Collective A sinister thread of horror, known and unknown, real and imagined, has connected much of what I have read this year. First, The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) by Vajra Chandrasekera was an unexpected favourite. This wittily recounted fever...
by polity.lk | Dec 4, 2024 | Culture
Writing the life of author and filmmaker Hanif Kureishi: race, class and multiculturalism Ruvani Ranasinha “We had been devastated … in ways we didn’t understand by racism” ~ Kureishi, My Ear at His Heart (2004) In 2023, my biography of the British Asian...
by polity.lk | Sep 3, 2024 | Culture
The Empathic Sinhala Short Story: Gahaniyak by Martin Wickramasinghe Jayadeva Uyangoda In participating in this celebration to mark the centenary of the publication of Martin Wickramasinghe’s short story collection Gahaniyak (‘A Woman’) my aim is to highlight a few...
by polity.lk | Jun 3, 2024 | Culture
Performance in a Time of Terror: A Conversation with Dr Ranjini Obeyesekere Kanchuka Dharmasiri In 2021, Dr Ranjini Obeyesekere published her English translation of five Sinhala plays from the 1980s and 1990s titled Performance in a Time of Terror, to accompany an...
by polity.lk | May 27, 2024 | Culture
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala, and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its Diasporas. Edited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, and Shash Trevett. Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd. 2023. 424p. Gnei Soraya Zarook Out of Sri Lanka, the “first true anthology of...
