by ssa-admin-032024 | Feb 22, 2023 | Intervention
The Left’s Choice: Revival or Surrender Devaka Gunawardena Two responses to my recent piece, “Resisting the Nationalist Right’s Framing of the Economic Alternative,” have appeared. One is by Uditha Devapriya and another, here in Polity, is by Shiran Illanperuma....
by ssa-admin-032024 | Feb 15, 2023 | Review
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka. Nira Wickramasinghe. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020 Reviewed by Paul D. Halliday “I understood I was to be carried to the country [to] which the ship was going, which was inhabited by...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Feb 6, 2023 | Essay
Nirmani Liyanage (2.2.1988-12.11.2022) Nihal Perera “To understand the community I am researching, i.e., the injustice and inequality its members are facing on a daily basis, I have to live among them, gain their trust and, through that trust, find ways to address the...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 31, 2023 | Editorial
Terror as Stability B. Skanthakumar “… stability, no less than revolution, may have its own kind of Terror”[i] Ranil Wickremesinghe has apparently peaked in popularity in the twilight of a dismal political career. Among party leaders, he is viewed favourably by 54% of...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 25, 2023 | Intervention
Resisting the Liberal Left’s Framing of the Economic Alternative Shiran Illanperuma SWRD Bandaranaike, Philip Gunawardena, DA Rajapaksa and others, at launch of Chandrika Wewa in 1958 In a recent intervention for Polity, Devaka Gunawardena argues that Sri Lanka’s Old...
