by polity.lk | Sep 15, 2026 | Politics
India’s Youth Protest and the Limits of Demand-Driven Mobilisation Manoranjan Pegu The recent protests ‘led’ by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in India, have been seen as the latest addition to South Asia’s wave of youth uprisings. What began as an online satire...
by polity.lk | Sep 8, 2026 | Politics
This Government, That Opposition, and the Work Still Ours Lionel Bopage For sixty-six years, until his death in 2014, the legendary comrade Bala Tampoe led the Ceylon Mercantile Union (CMU)—and turned a clerks’ association into a militant, multi-ethnic vanguard of the...
by polity.lk | Jul 28, 2026 | Politics
A Heart That Never Forgets Binu Peiris Over the high walls of the white mansions where our money lay, Our youth sped their way holding the tears of our motherland. This is a history that our young historians wrote, Silencing the mouth of the great, skilled orator,...
by polity.lk | Jul 21, 2026 | Politics
DBS Jeyaraj: The Witness in Exile Ruben Thurairajah He died in Canada, and the news arrived with a certain administrative neatness, as though it was an update rather than an ending. There was nothing theatrical about it; no climactic closure that literature prefers....
by polity.lk | Apr 21, 2026 | Politics
Ditwah Relief Management: Politics and Perceptions in ‘Kolamba Gama’ Shashik Silva Behind the numbers of those affected by Cyclone Ditwah, the homes and businesses destroyed or damaged, and those still in temporary shelters, there are other stories about what disaster...
by polity.lk | Jan 7, 2026 | Politics
Year One of the NPP Government: Some Heretical Thoughts Jayadeva Uyangoda By the third week of November 2025, the National People’s Power (NPP) has completed its first year as Sri Lanka’s new government, generating mixed reactions. The media has been saturated with...
