Today, as I write, the 4th day of April, 2020, Raj Amirthiah turned 85. Now I have never met the gentleman. And yet, I have.…
Even in the flood of well-meaning, ill-intended, harmless, spirit-lifting and depressing posts, sometimes a soft, pink petal makes its presence felt. This is the quote…
One of my favorite Joan Baez songs is ‘Prison Trilogy’. Three man. In prison for three different reasons. Three tragic stories. Together, they make logical…
There is a day, a time or perhaps a moment that is remembered frequently and even wistfully. The day before anyone had heard of Corvid-19.…
The idyllic was never lost, we just lost sight of it Who won the battle against terrorism? The easy answer: ‘Ranaviruwo’. Yes, the men and…
Insurrections are not pretty affairs. Even if we call them revolutions and even if there’s a transformation of the social order that makes for liberty,…
Words. Millions of them. We are getting an avalanche. We are being buried or shoved into a void. Maybe it’s fear. Could be determination. Some…
Kusal Gunasekara teaches art at the Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts. A dedicated and much loved teacher, Kusal probably doesn’t have enough time to do…
A time for concern or even fear is also a time for reflection and regret. This is when we encounter ‘should have’ and ‘shouldn’t have.’…
We don’t say ‘lock-down’ yet, but that’s what it is. For now, in fits and starts, but who can tell if curfew will become a…
Urban. Rural. Where does one end and the other begin? Well, one rolls into the other and vice versa if the identifier is concrete density.…
Ignorance breeds fear. Fear nudges emotion to trump reason. The world didn’t know about Corvid-19 a few months ago. The world still knows very little.…
There is a small town in Minnesota whose claim to fame, often expressed by its citizens, is that it stopped the notorious outlaw, bank and…
There is a small town in Minnesota whose claim to fame, often expressed by its citizens, is that it stopped the notorious outlaw, bank and…
Crises have a way of spawning pundits. Today, for example, we have epidemiologists, virologists, relief-deliverers, quarantine-supervisors and other experts in fields relevant to combating the…
The late Nihal Fernando knew this country through and through.The nation, it her multiple facets, physical and social, walked through his eyes into his heart.…
Insurrections are not pretty affairs. Even if we call them revolutions and even if there’s a transformation of the social order that makes for liberty,…
Sri Lankans, like people in most countries, grow up learning about heroes and the heroic. Every age has its personalities. Some live beyond generation and…
Lockdown. It’s not a new word. Lock (from the Old English ‘loc’) and down (from Middle Engish, ‘doun‘) have longer histories than their amalgam, the…
‘Bambi meets Godzilla’ is an animated short film, less than two minutes long in fact, made by Marc Newland. The story is simple. Bambi is…
Italy. As of now, the spread of the contagion is 250 times higher than anywhere else in the world. It is 120 and 56 times…
අන්ධකාරයෙන් ආලෝකයට, ස්වප්නයෙන් යථාර්ථයට, අසත්යයෙන් සත්යයට. රැඩිකල්කම කියන්නේ මෙයින් කියවන දිශාවන් වෙත ගමන් කිරීමයි. එහෙම හිතන්න පුළුවන්. කැමති නම් ‘උඩු ගං බලා’ කියන එකත් එකතු…
One of my most fascinating childhood memories is the film ‘The Land That Time Forgot.’ A fantasy/adventure film based upon an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel…
This happened almost 40 years ago. It was the Under 17 400m final of the John Tarbet Athletics Championship. The points table had St Thomas’…
‘The 225 +1 should go!’ This was a rallying cry not too long ago. The reference was to the then parliament and president. It was…
When China put Wuhan on a lockdown, the Western world cried out in horror, especially human rights outfits and those who believe China is THE…
They were forced into a cage by the LTTE and they were rescued. That’s it. Does withdrawing from Resolution 30/1 demonstrate a rejection of human…
There are two iconic family photographs taken about 20 decades apart from one another or longer. The first is of my mother dancing with my…
You’ve wasted your life. That’s an observation about those who have passed a certain age. You are wasting your life — that’s for the young.…
Remember those Gotha-Baya posters a couple of years ago when it the prospect of a Gotabhaya Rajapaksa candidacy was first talked of? The word was…