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There’s poetry and history resident in photographs
Words can be very visual. And pictures can speak. Good words and good art, that is. Art forms can communicate with one another and they communicate artist and art to us. Now there is text and there is...
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Serena! Serena! Serena! (way beyond the number ‘twenty four’)
Serena Williams turned 39 on the 26th of September. Thirty nine is way past retirement age for most professional athletes. Serena’s sister Venus is 40 and as such still holds that longevity edge. As I...
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Indrani in her long ago
These are not big match days. Indeed, this year, thanks to Covid19, the so-called Mad March Days were quite sober for the most part. This is not a big match story, although there are references to...
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‘Possible’: the single-word lesson
There is a song released on January 13, 1964. The lyrics obviously were composed before that. Sanju Samson was born 30 year later. And 26 years after that, he played an innings which was akin to...
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It had to be Samansiri who flew, who else?
Almost 60 years ago, Bob Dylan, then just 22 years old, made a prediction that was bold but not uncommon for young people of that time and age. He was convinced that things were changing. And many...
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Maheel Kuragama cannot leave the building
Farewells make for speeches. Flowers and good luck notes. Everyone will miss you. Until the next person’s departure comes up. More speeches, more flowers and all-the-bests and of course more missing....
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Words: their sources, half-way houses and journeys
Five years ago, some Sri Lankan writers attending the SAARC Literary Festival in Bengalaru, India, discussed contemporary novelists writing in Sinhala. Saumya Sandaruwan Liyanage, a past winner of the...
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'Sightings' that are simply blinding!
Why do people visit national parks such as Yala and Wilpattu? In a word, ‘sightings.’ Deer and peacocks are seen so often that after a while they cease to excite. If they turned heads in the first...
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Fear Day and days of fear
There’s a girl who is probably around ten years of age given to circling important days on her calendar. She has circled her birthday and those of her immediate family, I am told. Along with the...
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There's a 'some mother's child' we rarely notice
Have you tried to see people as children? It’s not a hard exercise, really. When one has lived long enough to have seen people of different ages, from infant to extremely elderly, one can look at a...
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Willie Dixon made sense
I have heard of the blues. I’ve heard of jazz. I’ve heard of rap. I can recognize rap. I remember someone saying, perhaps in a song, something along the following lines: ‘Rap music is not black...
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The address of ‘The Nation'
What is a nation and how do we recognize it? On the face of it, these are easy questions to answer. We can talk of name, location on a map, a history, physical attributes, demographic details and...
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Gratien Amarasinghe and the definition of the word ‘All-rounder’
All-rounder. It’s a word that cricketers and cricket fans know. There are batsmen. There are bowlers. Batsmen and bowlers are also fielders. And then we have allrounders. Back in the day there were...
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Nadal-Federer, 20-20 and beyond
Rafael Nadal defeated world number 1 Novak Djokovic in a surprisingly one-sided French Open final (6-0, 6-2, 7-5) to win his 13th (!!) title at Roland Garros and also equal Roger Federer for the most...
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Remember the coach(es)
[a tribute to Arjuna Parakrama]I want to write a few words about Arjuna Parakrama. He was the chess coach of my school and at the time the strongest player in the country. I want to write about him...
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Give Ambassador Teplitz a dictionary, please!
It is not hard to understand US Ambassador Alaiana B Teplitz’ angst. China, along with Japan, owns the debt of her country, the United States of America. China, according the US narrative, has...
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The 19th, 20th and sanctimonious humbuggery
There were voices. Loud voices. The end of democracy is at hand, we heard them say. Sovereignty is at stake, they said. All about the 20th Amendment. So they petitioned the Supreme Court in their...
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The forgotten 13th bears upon the 19th and 20th
Draconian. A plan for self-aggrandizement. The death of democracy. In violation of established parliamentary procedure. These are some of the terms and lines being used by those opposed to the 20th...
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And in the USA, they are trying to catch a falling piano
Walter Wallace. Who is he? Well, I didn’t know about him 24 hours ago. The entire world didn’t know about him. Just like they didn’t know about George Floyd a few months ago. The world wouldn’t have...
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Secure the borders!
‘Secure the borders!’ Secure the borders? That sounds like a slogan. A political slogan. Not that there’s no reason to be political or talk/write politics. Indeed, it is apt, given the flurry of...
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