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B. Skanthakumar | Plucking the Stars

Anushka Kahandagamage | Obeyesekere the Dreamer: Visionary Journeys in Anthropology

John D. Rogers | Gananath Obeyesekere: The Anthropologist and the Historian

R. S. Perinbanayagam | The Creation of the Hunter.

Sanmugeswaran Pathmanesan | ‘Guru-Ship’: An Epistemological Turn in My Anthropological Education

R. L. Stirrat | Gananath: Renaissance Man

Carmen Wickramagamage | A Critical History of Women’s Health in Modern Sri Lanka. Darshi Thoradeniya.

Shashik Silva | From Living With, to Drowning Under, Floods: A Village Transformed

Editors and Vahed | Iran: Solidarity with popular struggles against poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and repression

Editors | Governing in Anticipation of Backlash | polity.lk

Suriya Women’s Development Centre | Review and Repair Microfinance Authority Bill! Safeguard Women’s Dignity, Livelihoods, and Long-Term Security!

Jayadeva Uyangoda | Year One of the NPP Government: Some Heretical Thoughts

There is great disorder under heaven | Polity.lk

Palestine and Us

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Chulani Kodikara and Amalini de Sayrah | Left Feminism in and after the Aragalaya

Kumudini Samuel | Samanmali: A Life on the Frontlines of Women’s Struggles and Working-Class Resistance

Kiran Kaur Grewal | The Im/Possibility of Justice in the Current Global Order

B. Skanthakumar | The Great Flood

LK Floods November 2025 - Google Docs

Ruben Thurairajah | Of Heroes and Villains: Dutugemunu and Prabhakaran

Ishankha Singha Arachchi | Dying for the Target

Janaka Biyanwila | One Year On: Reading the NPP “From Below and to the Left”

The People's Summit | Declaration of the Peoples’ summit towards COP30

Kaushalya Ariyarathne | Gehenu Api Eka Mitata: Building a Women’s Political Movement in Sri Lanka

Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage | Safety is Not a Wall: Beyond Protection from Domestic Violence

Vajra Chandrasekera | “There is nothing inherently liberatory in the imagination, but it must be made so”

F. Zahrah Rizwan | Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi Sex Workers. Kaushalya Ariyarathne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

Feminist Collective for Economic Justice | End the Microfinance Menace! No to the new Bill!

Thahira Cader & Raaya Gomez | Reflecting Back and Looking Forward: 20 years since the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act

Ruben Thurairajah | ‘Dead Catting’: Manufacturing Moral Panic in Sri Lanka

Cat's Eye: Domestic Violence - The Rice Pot Boils Over

FCEJ Statement | FCEJ stands in support of the birds, the land and the people of Mannar.

Suriya Women’s Development Centre | Family Law and Practice in Sri Lanka: Women’s Declaration

Shashik Silva | Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Ruben Thurairajah | Man in the Mirror

Sakuna M. Gamage | Chemmani: Where the Soil Speaks, Where Memory Refuses Silence

Niyanthini Kadirgamar | Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: The NPP’s Education Reforms

Nadeera Rajapakse | Magic Maids: Sweeping Up a Storm at the Sorbonne

B. Skanthakumar | Ceylon’s ‘Great Hartal’ of 1953: The Masses Enter History

‘When the Devil Drums We Dance’: Sex Work and Sexual Violence in Wartime Sri LankaRadhika Hettiarachchi - polity.lk

Anushka Kahandagamage | Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka. Alexander McKinley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

There is great disorder under heaven | Polity.lk

Sumangala Damodaran | The ‘Radical Impulse’ in Music in Pre- and Post-Partition India

Shiran Illanperuma | The development of S.B.D. de Silva’s political economy

Sandunlekha Ekanayake | Aid Interrupted: Reverberations in Sri Lanka of USAID’s Dismantling

Kasun Kavishka | Queer Representation in Sri Lankan Media: A Double-Edged Sword?

Call for Articles | 20 Years after the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act in Sri Lanka

The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal Gaza Tribunal - polity.lk

Themal Ellawala | ‘Crop Top Terrorism’ and the Security State in Sri Lanka

B. Skanthakumar | The ‘Governance of Corruption’ in Sri Lanka – An IMF-NGO-NPP Consensus

Harindra B. Dassanayake and Rajni Gamage | Horu versus Boru: The politics of the 2025 local government elections in Sri Lanka

Kiran Grewal | Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Noura Erakat. Stanford University Press, 2019

Pradeep Peiris | System Stability not Change: The NPP abandons populism for liberal democracy

Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka. Bart Klem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 Sakuntala Kadirgamar - polity.lk

Taniya Silvapulle | Made in Sri Lanka, Taxed in America, and Failed by the IMF

Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri | The Revival of the JVP After 1989

B. Skanthakumar | Budget 2025: Playing A Bad Hand

Sumanasiri Liyanage | Contingence, Conjuncture and Structure: The Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka

David Dunham and Sisira Jayasuriya | Is All so Well With the Economy and With the Rural Poor?

David Dunham and Sisira Jayasuriya | He Who Pays The Piper: Mephistopheles and the Opiate of One-Day Cricket

David Dunham and Sisira Jayasuriya | Liberalisation and Political Decay: Sri Lanka's Journey from Welfare State to a Brutalised Society

Kaushalya Perera and Hasini Lecamwasam | Unveiling ‘Privatisation’ in Higher Education in Sri Lanka

Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage and Malithi Liyanage | Rani: The Politics of Erasure and the Aesthetics of Forgetting

S. Janaka Biyanwila | Asoka Handagama’s Rani: Diminishing Struggles Against Enforced Disappearances

Vihanga Perera | Richard de Zoysa in the Classroom

Manorani Saravanamuttu | Righteous Anger

Dhanuka Bandara | The Ritual Sacrifice of Richard de Zoysa: “Not really one of us, hence one of them”

Manikya Kodithuwakku | Richard de Zoysa: A Legacy of Injustice and Resistance

Justice for the Dead | The Magisterial Inquiry into the Murder of Richard de Zoysa

Prabha Manuratne | Me Kauda? Monawada Karanne? The Potential Futures of an “Alternative World” and the Political Legacy of Richard de Zoysa

Kanya D’Almeida | Words to Kill a Man, and Free a Man - polity.lk

Question – கேள்வி   Cheran Rudhramoorthy (trans. Anushiya Ramaswamy) - polity.lk

Richard de Zoysa: Swan Song

Tom Brass | The Hidden Politics of Critical Agrarian Studies: A Reply to Urs Geiser

Thavarasa Anukuvi | Economic Crisis and Resistance in Batticaloa, Eastern Sri Lanka Thavarasa Anukuvi - polity.lk

Editorial: Compass on an Old Course? Editors - polity.lk

Arif Azad | Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-2024): Parsi Pakistani writer between Lahore, Partition, and the US

Polity Vol. 12 No. 1 - polity.lk

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Jayadeva Uyangoda | The NPP Government and Its Democratic Promise: A Review

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Nethmi Bathige | Victims or Saviours? Women in Climate Adapted Agriculture Projects in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone

Ruvani Ranasinha | Writing the life of author and filmmaker Hanif Kureishi: race, class and multiculturalism

Sri Lanka General Election 2024: How We Read It; What We Want - Collective

Pasan Jayasinghe and Amali Wedagedara | Reading the General Election 2024

Pradeep Peiris | Can the National People’s Power Consolidate its Presidential Victory in the Parliamentary Election?

Shalini Randeria | Soft Authoritarianism, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Backlash Against Women’s Rights in Europe

Settler Tourism and the Threat of Terror

Aragalaya: Struggle for Space and the Spaces of the Struggle Nihal Perera - polity.lk

B. Skanthakumar | The Election That Was

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Luc Bulten | Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia,

Jayadeva Uyangoda | Sri Lanka presidential election: From citizens’ protests to regime change

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Natasha Ranawake | The Show

Jayadeva Uyangoda and Pradeep Peiris | Political Parties in the Mirror of the 2024 Presidential Election in Sri Lanka

Jayadeva Uyangoda | The Empathic Sinhala Short Story: Gahaniyak by Martin Wickramasinghe

Roshni Kapur | Decoding the Indian Elections: Class, Caste, and Social Exclusion

Pradeep Peiris | 2024 Presidential Election: Two-Cornered, Three-Way Fight Pradeep Peiris - polity.lk

Amali Wedagedara | South Asia in the New Global Debt Crisis

Hasanah Cegu, Ermiza Tegal, and Nadia Ismail | Child Marriages in Muslim Families in Batticaloa and Ampara

Pasan Jayasinghe | Mary and Manju Emmanuel, Sarala (Director). 2021-2024. 19 mins and 24 mins respectively Pasan Jayasinghe

Hiranyada Dewasiri | Anatomy of a Protest and Aragalaya Cinema

Jayadeva Uyangoda | Sri Lanka’s Pre-Presidential Election Politics: Uncertainty or Turmoil?

B. Skanthakumar | The conjuncture in the crisis B. Skanthakumar

Ukraine: A People’s Peace, not an Imperial Peace Bewegung für den Sozialismus/Mouvement pour le Socialisme (Switzerland), solidaritéS (Switzerland), Sotsialnyi Rukh (Ukraine), Posle Media Collective (Russia), emanzipation - Zeitschrift für ökosozialistisc

Ceylon Workers Red Flag Union | ‘A Collective Voice must be raised for Plantation Workers’Ceylon Workers Red Flag Union - polity.lk

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