by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 9, 2023 | Essay
A Hundred Years of Pauline and C. R. (Dick) Hensman 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 year. This attempt to provide an overview of...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 2, 2023 | Polity
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 a Weapon to Dismiss Social Struggles – Devaka Gunawardena Resisting the Nationalist...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 2, 2023 | Polity
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’: Debt Distress and Ways Forward in Sri Lanka – Jayati Ghosh The Election of Ranil...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 2, 2023 | Review
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...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Sep 25, 2023 | Intervention
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 the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the Rajapaksas...
