When crises converge: how uneven agrarian development influences the effects of climate change in Sri Lanka’s North-Central dry zone

Harry M. Quealy and Cherisma Rajaratnam

by polity.lk | Jan 14, 2024 | Essay

When crises converge: how uneven agrarian development influences the effects of climate change in Sri Lanka’s North-Central dry zoneHarry M. Quealy and Cherisma Rajaratnam In 2016-2017, Sri Lanka’s North-Central dry zone suffered what had been described as the worst...

Budget 2024: ‘Deep Marketisation’ in Sri Lanka

B. Skanthakumar

by polity.lk | Dec 18, 2023 | Essay

Budget 2024: ‘Deep Marketisation’ in Sri LankaB. Skanthakumar Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Budget for 2024 had safe passage on third reading on 13 December as expected, with a majority of 41 votes in the 225-member legislature. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP—People’s...

Fault Lines in Indian Agriculture: Solidarities and Contradictions in Southern Haryana

Srishti Yadav

by polity.lk | Oct 30, 2023 | Essay

Fault Lines in Indian Agriculture: Solidarities and Contradictions in Southern HaryanaSrishti Yadav November 2023 marks three years of the historic farmers’ protests in India that captured the imagination of people in India and around the world; and two years since...

Reflections on Critical Agrarian Studies in Sri Lanka

Urs Geiser

by polity.lk | Oct 23, 2023 | Essay

Reflections on Critical Agrarian Studies in Sri LankaUrs Geiser In this essay, my aim is to reflect on the situation in Sri Lanka’s agrarian sphere, through the gaze of ‘critical agrarian studies’.[i] I begin with a glance at related discourses during the 1970s and...

A Hundred Years of Pauline and C. R. (Dick) Hensman

Rohini Hensman

by polity.lk | Oct 9, 2023 | Essay

A Hundred Years of Pauline and C. R. (Dick) Hensman Rohini Hensman Dick and Pauline Hensman, Mount Lavinia, 1982 The birth anniversaries of Pauline Hensman (née Swan) and Dick Hensman occurred over the course of the past year. This attempt to provide an overview of...

Ceylon’s ‘Great Hartal’ of 1953: The Masses Enter History

B. Skanthakumar

by polity.lk | Aug 23, 2023 | Essay

Ceylon’s ‘Great Hartal’ of 1953: The Masses Enter History B. Skanthakumar NM Perera addresses Galle Face Rally 23 July 1953  “It was the class struggle in free flow and it constituted the highest point that the class struggle had yet reached in Ceylon”[i] 70 years ago...