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...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 27, 2021 | Essay
Qadri Ismail (1961 – 2021): Abiding, Acknowledging, and Accounting for Intellectual Debts Andi Schubert Fuck 2021. Well, that seems like an appropriately Qadri-esque way[i] to open a reflection on his untimely and sudden death, only a few months after the loss of Dr...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 25, 2021 | From the Archive
The Moral Mother Syndrome Malathi de Alwis I was in a trishaw recently trying out my discussion topic of the month — social violence — when the driver suddenly launched into a passionate tirade that the reason for all the violence within our society was that “our”...
