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This Roy-Tho belongs to Rajitha Dhanapala
The Royal-Thomian is not just a cricket match between two schools. It is, but that’s only a small part of the story. For Royalists and Thomians, both young and old, it is about reunion, reminiscing,...
View ArticleGeneva is a distraction Sri Lanka can do without
To plan for year, they say, you have to plant rice. To plan for a decade you have to plant trees and to plan for a century, you have to teach the people. I believe that’s a Chinese saying....
View ArticlePeople who do have-to-do things
Some people are messy by nature or else by acquired habit. Some are neat to a fault. Some have messy desktops but are endowed with exceptional clarity of mind. They may appear disorganized but they...
View ArticleA singular petal decorating the black bough of Havelock Road
Some years ago a reckless act by my reckless friend Buddhike Navaratne, at the time working under me in the Special Media Unit of the Information Department, saw me visiting the Kirulapona Police...
View ArticleThere’s an open can of worms in Ki-moon’s office
[It's 'Geneva Time' again and it is time to re-visit fairy tales crafted, spoon-fed, digested, regurgitated and spat out like so much bad news. It is good to re-read fairy tales because the tellers of...
View ArticleThe quality of righteousness and its prerogatives
Elections are about representatives. Leaders. Candidates believe they are leaders or at least that they can be leaders. Maybe they know everything there is to know about leaders. Some, though, may...
View ArticleThe leader must understand 'appropriateness'
Elections are about representatives. Leaders. Candidates believe they are leaders or at least that they can be leaders. Maybe they know everything there is to know about leaders. Some, though, may...
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Of big matches, camaraderie and playing with a straight bat
The Cricket World Cup (2011) was more than compensated for the drag-farce that was the 2007 edition of the event. The great thing about one-day matches is that rain permitting there’s always a result....
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Ranjan Madugalle’s ‘lesson’ in 1982*
I think it was L.D.H. Peiris, Principal of Royal College (1972-1980) who introduced a tradition of inviting a distinguished old boy to address the student during assembly. Or he may have been...
View ArticleKalagngnu: the importance of time, timeliness and timing
Elections are about representatives. Leaders. Candidates believe they are leaders or at least that they can be leaders. Maybe they know everything there is to know about leaders. Some, though, may...
View ArticleI don’t like tree-cutters and am wary of big-spenders
These are electioneering days. Poster-days. Almost four years ago, there was a General Election. The following was written around that time. So it's 'dated' in that sense. Still, the argument about...
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The development ride and other tidbits
The development rideLast week President Mahinda Rajapaksa drove a bus by way of opening the Kottawa-Kaduwala section of the new superhighway network. That's 'development'. There were others in the...
View ArticleThe leader must be conscious of ‘the gathering’
Elections are about representatives. Leaders. Candidates believe they are leaders or at least that they can be leaders. Maybe they know everything there is to know about leaders. Some, though, may...
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Tragedy, its abuse and the contours of hope: Images from Kilinochchi
Kilinochchi. It was the ‘other’ of Colombo, deliberately ‘othered’ to obtain parity of status. Words, we all know, are seldom innocent. ‘Kilinochchi’ was capitalized, so to speak by people who...
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The Palace of Nations reflects
In a parallel universe of course....I’ve had a long life. An illustrious life too. I am almost 100 years old. I am a building. Now I am not to blame for the less-than illustrious things that take...
View ArticleWho is scared of Colombo Telegraph?
We live in a world where the Bible and Quran are used to justify anything and everything, a world where the teachings of the Buddha are (mis)interpreted to buttress political projects quite...
View ArticleThe true temperature of aggrieved-tears
Only a mother who has lost a child can fathom the grief of a woman who has lost her son. Balendra Jeyakumari is not a mother who lost a son. She’s a mother who lost three sons. That’s not three-times...
View ArticleLet’s talk of things supposedly inanimate
More than ten years ago I heard an anecdote about office equipment, especially photocopy machines, computers and printers. Apparently, the story went, if a machine was not responding as expected, you...
View ArticleSuppiah Vijayan moves
Mailvaganam Watta is a familiar place. There was a time I used to go there many times a day. Mailvaganam Watta is in Thunmulla. That’s a little ways beyond Hercules Tailors on the same side of the...
View ArticleBlessed are the children, for they will not be snatched
Someone once proposed that when the first child smiled for the very first time, the smile would have broken into a thousand pieces, gone skipping along in a thousand different directions and that this...
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