Analysis
Fault Lines in Indian Agriculture: Solidarities and Contradictions in Southern Haryana by Srishti Yadav
November 2023 marks three years of the historic farmers’ protests in India that captured the imagination of people in India and around the world; and
Reflections on Critical Agrarian Studies in Sri Lanka by Urs Geiser
In this essay, my aim is to reflect on the situation in Sri Lanka’s agrarian sphere, through the gaze of ‘critical agrarian studies’.[i] I begin
Gaza: Into the Abyss by Devaka Gunawardena
Gaza and the wider world are heading into an abyss. With the announcement and preparation of Israel’s invasion of Gaza in response to a massacre
A Hundred Years of Pauline and C. R. (Dick) Hensman by Rohini Hensman
Dick and Pauline Hensman, Mount Lavinia, 1982 The birth anniversaries of Pauline Hensman (née Swan) and Dick Hensman occurred over the course of the past
Polity Vol. 11 No. 1
Editorial: Hyper-Reforms amidst Hyper-Austerity Sri Lanka 2023: Anniversaries of Struggle – Q. M. Saul May Day Diary 2023 – B. Skanthakumar Don’t Use Class as
Polity Vol. 10 No. 2
Editorial 2023 Budget: False Promises at the Expense of Women and Working People – Feminist Collective for Economic Justice ‘The Writing Was on the Wall’:
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka by Bandura Dileepa Witharana. Colombo: Tambapanni Academic Publishers, 2022 – Reviewed by Cherry Briggs
Since the mid-1980s, the subjects of nationalism and Sinhalese identity have dominated scholarly output on Sri Lanka. Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in
In 2024’s elections, lessons from 2015 – Devaka Gunawardena
Ahead of the 2015 Presidential Elections that were held on 8 January, Mahinda Rajapaksa seemed unlikely to be defeated. Although Maithripala Sirisena had split from
“Austerity driven economic reforms affect women more than men” – An Interview with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Dr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky was the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights between June 2014 and April