Analysis
Budget 2024: ‘Deep Marketisation’ in Sri Lanka by B. Skanthakumar
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Budget for 2024 had safe passage on third reading on 13 December as expected, with a majority of 41 votes in the 225-member
A Voice from Palestine by M. A. Nuhman
[Israeli defence minister says: ‘‘We are fighting with human animals” and prime minister Netanyahu says in his address to the nation: ‘‘Israel is fighting with the
නාද්යාගේ Minarets නාදය: “ඉස්ලාමීය සද්දයක්ද? සිනමා සද්දයක්ද? NGO සද්දයක්ද? ” – බූපති නලින් වික්රමගේ
වාර්තා චිත්රපටයක් තවදුරටත් වාර්තාවකටම ඌණනය විය යුතු නැත. සිනමාව තවදුරටත් සමාජ විද්යාවේ කාර්යභාරය ද ඉටු කළ යුතු ද නැත. සමාජ විද්යාත්මක තොරතුරු සාධනය යනු තවදුරටත්
2024 and Beyond: Electoral Politics and the Left by Devaka Gunawardena
Amid a suffocating consensus on austerity, any opportunity to expand on the current stakes of Left strategy in Sri Lanka must be seen as a
Repatriation and Reparation: Objects and the Colonial Museum by Lara Wijesuriya
Exhibit 1: Throne of Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe, Colombo National Museum In 1934, the Duke of Gloucester paid a State visit to Ceylon, bringing with him
Why 2024 Will Not Be 2015 Redux by Ramindu Perera
Amidst the woes of a deepening economic crisis and the disastrous effect of International Monetary Fund-dictated austerity measures, Sri Lanka is passing through a tremendous
ප්රවාද 39 (2023, ජූලි) – වියමන් හා ලියමන්
පිටකවර ඡායාරූපය: සකුණ මියැසිනාද ගමගේ පටුන විවිධ ක්ෂේත්ර තුළ “ආකයිවය” පිළිබඳ න්යාය – මාර්ලීන් මෑනොෆ් ආකයිවය ගොඩනැගීම: මිනෙට් ද සිල්වා, ගෘහ නිර්මාණ ශිල්පය, සහ ඉතිහාසය
The Nazification of Israel by Aijaz Ahmad
In 2002, Polity magazine’s predecessor, Pravada (Vol. 7, Nos. 10 & 11, pp. 12-16) published the essay below by the distinguished Southasian political and cultural theorist Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022).
Sri Lanka must act in solidarity with Palestine!
The diabolical horrors unfolding in Gaza compel people of conscience across the world to take a principled stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The