by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 24, 2021 | Pravada Online
‘ද නිවුස්පේපර්’: සිනමාවෙන් නිරූපිත ගම, නගරය සහ දේශපාලනය ආශාවරී කරුණානායක සිනමාව සමාජ යථාර්ථය සියුම්ව ස්පර්ශ කරන්නා වූ රසාස්වාද මාධ්යයකි. ඒ අනුව උසස් සිනමා කෘතියක් යනු සමාජ යථාර්ථය ගෙන හැර දක්වමින් ප්රේක්ෂකයා වෙත සිතීමේ අවකාශය විවර කරන්නකි; සමාජය වෙත කිසියම්...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 23, 2021 | Intervention
Sri Lanka’s Left isn’t ‘Taking Democracy Seriously’ Devaka Gunawardena The Left in Sri Lanka—currently more of an aspirational idea, than an active movement—is once again at the crossroads. Those people who at least explicitly self-identify as Left appear to be split...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 15, 2021 | Review
Like Water to Soil: ‘Paangshu’ Between Politics and Rights Prabha Manuratne The director of the film Paangshu, Visakesa Chandrasekaram describes how his encounter with human rights violations in Sri Lanka made a deep impact on him, and remembers the image of a mother...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 14, 2021 | Statement
A call to action against the detention of Hejaaz Hizbullah and Ahnaf Jazeem, anti-Muslim violence, and attacks on democracy Decades of majoritarian politics, and the more recent descent towards authoritarianism and militarisation, have eroded the foundations of our...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 28, 2021 | Essay
In Memoriam: Malathi de Alwis (1963 – 2021) and Qadri Ismail (1961 – 2021) It is with deep sadness that Polity marks the untimely loss of not one but two great Sri Lankan scholars Malathi de Alwis and Qadri Ismail in the space of five months of each other. As Andi...
