by ssa-admin-032024 | Nov 13, 2023 | Intervention
The Nazification of Israel 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). Since the abominable...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 31, 2023 | Statement
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 current violence unleashed indiscriminately on Gaza in...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 30, 2023 | Essay
Fault Lines in Indian Agriculture: Solidarities and Contradictions in Southern Haryana 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 two years since...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 23, 2023 | Essay
Reflections on Critical Agrarian Studies in Sri Lanka 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 with a glance at related discourses during the 1970s and...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 18, 2023 | Intervention
Gaza: Into the Abyss 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 by Hamas, longstanding fears appear to be on the verge of realisation. The...
