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,...
by polity.lk | Dec 24, 2024 | Culture, Apsara Karunaratne, Kiran Grewal, Neloufer de Mel, Ramya Jirasinghe, Ruvani Ranasinha, Vihanga Perera, Vindhya Buthpitiya
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...
