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Struggles against injustice must channel into a movement for social change, spoke Manorani Saravanamuttu, before relatives of the disappeared in 1992 #SriLanka

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Source: Melani D’Almeida
Photo: Harin Katipearachchi
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February 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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"How, really, do you value a human life against the value of his or her work?" asks Kanya D’Almeida of her uncle 🇱🇰 Richard de Zoysa, journalist and activist; and her friend 🇺🇸 political prisoner, Russell Maroon Shoatz.

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Kanya D’Almeida | Words to Kill a Man, and Free a Man
Kanya D’Almeida is a writer, and winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is the co-author of I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner, available now from Hachette B...
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February 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Richard de Zoysa, journalist, actor, & human rights activist, was abducted from his home on 18 Feb 1990 by state agents, tortured & murdered. Friend & fellow poet Cheran Rudhramoorthy responded in words (translated from Tamil by Anushiya Ramaswamy) "born out of a question"
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Question – கேள்வி   Cheran Rudhramoorthy (trans. Anushiya Ramaswamy) - polity.lk
Cheran Rudhramoorthy, professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Windsor, is an academic, poet, playwright, and journalist.
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February 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Richard de Zoysa was abducted and murdered by agents of the state on 18 February 1990. The SSA's first issue of #Pravada (Nov 1991) reprinted his last story in outrage and protest against enforced disappearances and killings in #SriLanka

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February 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Richard de Zoysa was abducted and killed 35 years ago next week (18 Feb). In his memory, and the unfinished struggle for truth and justice for all victims of enforced disappearances in #SriLanka, #PolityLK will publish 9 pieces.

For updates follow us linktr.ee/politylk

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February 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Has the ‘system change’ #SriLanka demanded & #AKD / #NPP promised - arrived, in transit, or a lost cause? The #editorial for #PolityLK Vol 12 No 2 (Dec 2024), surveys 100 days of the #Malimawa in power.

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Editorial: Compass on an Old Course? Editors - polity.lk
One hundred days have passed since Anura Kumara Dissanayake assumed the presidency of Sri Lanka after the 21 September election, subsequently leading the
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January 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistani writer in English of Parsi heritage, passed away on 25 December 2024. Read Arif Azad portrait of an extraordinary woman who defied illness, conservatism, and discrimination to write on Partition, Lahore, and the US.

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Arif Azad | Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-2024): Parsi Pakistani writer between Lahore, Partition, and the US
Arif Azad is a public policy and public health professional, who studied medicine in Lahore; he is the author most recently of Thinkers, Dreamers and Doers: People, Places and Ideas of our Time (Islam...
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January 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Polity Vol. 12 No. 1 (released June 2024) is now available online. This issue covers a range of theses, including Zionism and Palestinian liberation, Sri Lankan education, plantation worker rights, and reviews of literary and cultural productions.

Access this issue at,
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January 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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#PolityLK sends wishes of strength and solidarity to struggles for peace and justice in 2025.

Here are our top-read articles in 2024:
January 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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What were your best reads in 2024?
As 2024 ends, we asked a few friends to share their top three reads this year. Thank you @vindi-b.bsky.social; Neloufer de Mel; @kirankgrewal.bsky.social; Ramya Jirasinghe; Apsara Karunaratne; Vihanga Perera & @ruvaniranasinha.bsky.social. What were your favourites?

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Best Reads in 2024 | Collective
By Vindhya Buthpitiya | Neloufer de Mel | Kiran Grewal | Ramya Jirasinghe | Apsara Karunaratne | Vihanga Perera | Ruvani Ranasinha
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December 30, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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As 2024 ends, we asked a few friends to share their top three reads this year. Thank you @vindi-b.bsky.social; Neloufer de Mel; @kirankgrewal.bsky.social; Ramya Jirasinghe; Apsara Karunaratne; Vihanga Perera & @ruvaniranasinha.bsky.social. What were your favourites?

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Best Reads in 2024 | Collective
By Vindhya Buthpitiya | Neloufer de Mel | Kiran Grewal | Ramya Jirasinghe | Apsara Karunaratne | Vihanga Perera | Ruvani Ranasinha
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December 24, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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December 19, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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Analysing #climateadaptation interventions in #SriLanka’s dry zone in #PolityLK this week @nethmisachy.bsky.social turns a #feminist #politicalecology lens to expose the nuances these projects miss.

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Nethmi Bathige | Victims or Saviours? Women in Climate Adapted Agriculture Projects in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone
Nethmi Bathige is a PhD Student in the geography department at the Pennsylvania State University, USA
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December 12, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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Today: 4.30 PM

A Talk with Nazan Üstündağ & Erdem Yörük on 'Revolution and Counterrevolution in Turkey and the Middle East'
#revolution #Turkey #MiddleEast

Monday, 16 December 2024
4.30PM - 6.00PM
December 16, 2024 at 7:34 AM
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British Asian novelist and screenwriter @Hanifkureishi is 70 today! #PolityLK is delighted to publish his biographer @ruvaniranasinha.bsky.social's salutation to the artistry of an extraordinary writer, situated in his life and times.

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Ruvani Ranasinha | Writing the life of author and filmmaker Hanif Kureishi: race, class and multiculturalism
Ruvani Ranasinha is Professor of Global Literatures at the Department of English, King’s College, London. She was a jury member of the Gratiaen Prize 2023 awarded annually for the best work of creativ...
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December 5, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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"The policies marketed by the NPP appeal to the ongoing struggles of citizens. From a youth point of view..."
December 3, 2024 at 5:34 AM
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The impossible has happened in #SriLanka! #NPPSL won by a landslide, carrying the #Aragalaya's mandate into #parliament. Last week, Pasan Jayasinghe and Amali Wedagedara analysed #GE2024 and what lies ahead.

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Pasan Jayasinghe and Amali Wedagedara | Reading the General Election 2024
Pasan Jayasinghe is a PhD candidate in political science at University College London. Amali Wedagedara (PhD, Hawai‘i) is a feminist political economist and a senior researcher at the Bandaranaike Cen...
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November 27, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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November 27, 2024 at 6:37 AM
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New "Serial Experiments Lain" Illustration by Yoshitoshi Abe for upcoming CONTNUE issue 85 out Dec 18, 2024!

The magazine will have a big special about the series.
November 5, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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"Over the Garden Wall" stop-motion short by Aardman studios is now online ♥
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the series by Patrick McHale (Cartoon Network).
Directed by Mikey Please & Dan Ojari ("Robin-Robin").
Puppet Makers : Sculpt-Double.
Watch the film >> www.catsuka.com/news/2024-11...
November 3, 2024 at 3:26 PM