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,...
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...
