by polity.lk | Apr 1, 2025 | Politics
The Revival of the JVP after 1989 Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri What follows is a brief account of the history of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) from 1990 to the election victory of the JVP-led broader front, the National People’s Power (NPP) in 2024.[1] Given the fact...
by polity.lk | Feb 25, 2025 | Politics
The Ritual Sacrifice of Richard de Zoysa: “Not really one of us, hence one of them” Dhanuka Bandara In Violence and the Sacred, René Girard (1979) understands ritual sacrifice as a means of stalling the cycle of vengeance. What is sacrificed—person or otherwise—is not...
by polity.lk | Feb 19, 2025 | Politics
Words to Kill a Man, and Free a Man Kanya D’Almeida In the early months of 2012, I inherited two troves of literature. I had been hunting for one of them for years; the other arrived unsolicited. The first was an archive of the journalistic work of my uncle, Richard...
by polity.lk | Jan 15, 2025 | Politics
The NPP Government and Its Democratic Promise: A Review Jayadeva Uyangoda How democratic will the National People’s Power (NPP) government be? How faithful will the NPP leaders – whose political careers began in the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) with a background of...
by polity.lk | Nov 30, 2024 | Politics
Sri Lanka General Election 2024: How We See It; What We Want Collective In one or two words, describe your reaction to the overall picture from the general election; then go on to explain why. Saturation. Sri Lanka’s electoral system struggles to produce balanced...
by polity.lk | Nov 21, 2024 | Politics
Reading the General Election 2024 Pasan Jayasinghe and Amali Wedagedara The National People’s Power (NPP) has made history. With its unprecedented, record-breaking electoral victory at the general election of 2024, the NPP has succeeded in engineering popular dissent...
