by polity.lk | Jun 25, 2021 | From the Archive
The Moral Mother Syndrome Malathi de Alwis I was in a trishaw recently trying out my discussion topic of the month — social violence — when the driver suddenly launched into a passionate tirade that the reason for all the violence within our society was that...
A Flippant Gesture Towards Sri Lanka: A Review of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Qadri Ismail
by polity.lk | Jun 21, 2021 | From the Archive
A Flippant Gesture Towards Sri Lanka: A Review of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost Qadri Ismail Novels like all other texts take sides. Literary orthodoxy may hold, still, that fiction must be read and evaluated on purely aesthetic grounds. But leftist literary...