Dharmasiri Bandaranayake is not a man to mince his words. And his outspokenness is not confined to the fiery, controversial dialogues he delivers on stage. Seated at a table at the Cultural Foundation he set up five years ago in a quiet neighbourhood in Nugegoda, it takes little prompting to draw him into a conversation about his work as a dramatist and filmmaker and the wider role he feels his tribe has to play in Sri Lankan society if it’s to come out of the ‘cultureless’ pit it has got itself into.
‘The Kalla Bongo Lake Resort’ in Hikkaduwa is not just another hotel. Melvin Janssen, the Dutch proprietor of the Resort wants his property should be different from the rest.
Though he wants to build his dream project in Hikkaduwa, he wants to get away from the busy and noisy beach frontier of the famous Hikka Beach.