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politylk has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in February 2024. The social media accounts linked to from politylk are: • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • X • Bluesky • WhatsApp Channel Besides social media accounts, politylk has populated their site with: • Ruben Thurairajah | DBS Jeyaraj: The Witness in Exile • La littérature et la politique de l'identité plurielle, au Sri Lanka et au-delà - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières • Nadeera Rajapakse | Literature and the Politics of Plural Identity, in and beyond Sri Lanka • Shannon Constantine | Dear Children, Sincerely: Seven Decades of Sri Lanka. Stages Theatre Group. Colombo. 2026. • Benedikt Korf | “Peasant Politics” and the War in Sri Lanka • Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera | Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath. S. Shakthidharan. Sydney: Powerhouse, 2025 • Devanesan Nesiah Articles | Polity • Hiranyada Dewasiri | Anatomy of a Protest and Aragalaya Cinema • Thiruni Kelegama | தாயகம் (𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘮 / motherland). Amita Arudpragasam. Harvest Moon, 2026. 76 mins. • Elizabeth J. Harris | Aloysius Pieris, S.J.: Visionary Activist • Roshni Kapur | Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia. Sam Dalrymple. Harper Collins, 2025. • MC Kanula | Chemmani '25 • Sharni Jayawardena | ‘Just A Phase’: The forgotten lunar calendar • Editors | Neutrality in the Face of Injustice • Centre for Society and Religion (CSR) | Memory, Pain, and the Hope of Justice • Shashik Silva | Ditwah Relief Management: Politics and Perceptions in ‘Kolamba Gama’ • Jonathan Spencer | The Conscience of the Scholar • Dennis B. McGilvray | Gananath Obeyesekere: Dazzling Scholar of Integrity • Selvy Thiruchandran | Laughter, Debate, and Dissent: Personal Glimpses of Gananath Obeyesekere • Richard F. Gombrich | A Bridge Between East and West • Crystal Baines | Ranjini Obeyesekere interview | A literary man interested in anthropology • Geethika Dharmasinghe | Conversion and Tradition: The Religious Public in Millennial Sri Lanka • Anne M. Blackburn | A Tale of Two Islands • Radhika Coomaraswamy | Gananath’s Tryst with Lawyers • Mark P. Whitaker | An Accidental Education with Gananath Obeyesekere • Chulani Kodikara | Twenty Years of the PDVA: How has it worked for Women? • Victor C. de Munck | Gananath: Two Stories and A Review • 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 • Top 20 Articles read in 2025 - polity.lk • Collective | Best Reads 2025 • 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. • 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 • Polity and Pravada Archive - polity.lk • Jayadeva Uyangoda | The NPP Government and Its Democratic Promise: A Review • Best Reads in 2024 | Collective • 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 • polity.lk • 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 • 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 • 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 • Alf Gunvald Nilsen | Authoritarian Populism in the Global South Alf Gunvald Nilsen - polity.lk • PolityLK Website • PolityLK | Facebook • PolityLK | X/Twitter • PolityLK | Instagram • PolityLK | LinkedIn