by polity.lk | Jul 7, 2026 | Review
Dear Children, Sincerely: Seven Decades of Sri Lanka. Stages Theatre Group. Colombo. 2026. Shannon Constantine An ensemble mimes bus passengers and their conductor: some have their arms raised as if grasping bus rails, while their driver bends over an imaginary wheel,...
by polity.lk | Jun 23, 2026 | Review
Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath. S. Shakthidharan. Sydney: Powerhouse, 2025. Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera Some years ago, I contributed a foreword to A Sense of Viidu, an anthology of writing on Tamil diasporic re-creations of home (viidu) edited by Niro...
by polity.lk | Jun 16, 2026 | Review
தாயகம் (𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘮 / motherland). Amita Arudpragasam. Harvest Moon, 2026. 76 mins. Thiruni Kelegama Thayakam begins with a date: 26 September 2025. The footage that follows is of a crowd, the police somewhere inside it, and voices over the images, subtitled from the...
by polity.lk | Jan 27, 2026 | Review
A Critical History of Women’s Health in Modern Sri Lanka. Darshi Thoradeniya. Orient BlackSwan (New Delhi), 2024. Carmen Wickramagamage Darshi Thoradeniya’s book, A Critical History of Women’s Health in Modern Sri Lanka, unearths the submerged and complicated history...
by polity.lk | May 24, 2024 | Review
Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Impunity, violence, and the politics of representation – The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Shehan Karunatilaka. Gurugram, Harayana: Penguin Books, 2022 Reviewed by Harshana Rambukwella A murdered journalist...
by polity.lk | Sep 4, 2023 | Review
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan. Manhattan: Random House, 2023 Reviewed by Vasugi Kailasam Brotherless Night is V. V. Ganeshananthan’s second novel. I read this novel in late July 2023, with a fevered reminder of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of...
