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...
by polity.lk | Feb 20, 2025 | Culture
Me Kauda? Monawada Karanne? The Potential Futures of an “Alternative World” and the Political Legacy of Richard de Zoysa Prabha Manuratne Me Kauda? Monawada Karanne? (‘Who is he? What is he doing?’) was the title of a play, allegedly, that got Richard de Zoysa...
by polity.lk | Feb 18, 2025 | Culture
Question – கேள்வி Cheran Rudhramoorthy (trans. Anushiya Ramaswamy) The moon, shredded, hangs onthe fence; midnight.Yama’s messengers,who rend lives,tread on the falling leaves. Demons buried in the wellin the corner of the backyardbrace to emerge now. On this night...
by polity.lk | Jan 25, 2025 | Culture
Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-2024): Parsi Pakistani writer between Lahore, Partition, and the US Arif Azad Bapsi Sidhwa, who died aged 86 in Houston, Texas on 25 December 2024, was Pakistan’s pioneering woman fiction writer in English who rose to regional and global fame,...
