by polity.lk | May 5, 2022 | Review
Locating Labour in Sri Lanka’s Ethical Sourcing: Review of “Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels” Kanchana Ruwanpura Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2022 Shyamain Wickramasinghe Garments without Guilt? Global...
by polity.lk | Apr 5, 2022 | Review
The Unwomanly Face of the 1971 Revolt Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra Sarath Wijesinghe Charithapadanaya saha 71 Tharuna Pibidhime Yatapathkala Ithihasaya (The Biography of Sarath Wijesinghe and the Suppressed History of Youth Awakening in 1971)By Susila Hemamali...
by polity.lk | Mar 28, 2022 | Review
Marriage, Morality, and Modernity Tharindi Udalagama Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka by Asha L. Abeyasekera (Rutgers University Press, 2021) Asha Abeyasekera’s Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka (Rutgers...
by polity.lk | Mar 22, 2022 | Review
Wading through a stream of memories for answers: The Single Tumbler by Sumathy Sivamohan Afrah Niwas Sumathy Sivamohan’s latest feature film “The Single Tumbler”, woven around stories of a single family, is a heart-wrenching tale of life, war, loss, trauma, and the...
by polity.lk | Feb 9, 2022 | Review
A History of Unfortunate Circumstances Hasini A. Haputhanthri‘A Day in July 2019’ by Rajitha Dissanayake, 2022, Lionel Wendt, Colombo This play has been long in the making. A string of unfortunate circumstances induced by the pandemic resulted in the postponement of...
by polity.lk | Feb 3, 2022 | Review
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India. Geoffrey Redding. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 240 pp Reviewed by Farzana Haniffa Redding’s book lays out the manner in which regardless of the horrendous anti- Muslim violence...
