by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 15, 2021 | Essay
Nationality, Complex Identities, and Multiple Belongings Rohini Hensman As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pravada/Polity, it is a pleasure to have been associated with it, as a regular contributor, over this period. One reason I did so was because it was...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 9, 2021 | Essay
‘A Letter from the Village’ Udan Fernando I was recently, and abruptly, reminded of a conversation that a junior researcher at a research institute I previously worked at, had with a few colleagues including myself. For whatever reason, Gamini Foneska’s name popped...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Nov 30, 2021 | Essay
The Office on Missing Persons post-2020: Who and What is it for? Chulani Kodikara Demonstration held in front of the National War Heroes’ Monument by the National Collective of War Heroes (Jathika Ranawiru Ekamuthuwa), several other civil society organisations, and...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Nov 23, 2021 | Editorial
Polity turns 30! 30 years ago, the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) of Sri Lanka began publishing in print an English-language periodical of progressive opinion on current affairs, under the direction of Charles Abeysekera, Shani Jayawardena, and Jayadeva...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Nov 21, 2021 | Pravada Online
නවලිබරල්වාදය සහ ‘නගරයට ඇති අයිතිය’: මෑතකාලීන කොළඹ නාගරික අවකාශමය නවීකරණයෙහි බහිෂ්කරණය හසිනි ලේකම්වසම් හැඳින්වීම ‘නගරයට ඇති අයිතිය’ පිළිබඳව බොහෝ දේ රචනා වී ඇත. හෙන්රි ලෆේව්’ගෙන් ඇරඹි මේ වටිනා සහ වැදගත් කතිකාව තුළ නාගරීකරණයේ ඵල භුක්ති විඳීමට අයිතිය ඇත්තේ කාට ද යන්න...
