Aconcagua will be waiting for us; another day
It’s easy to assume that once you have stood on the summit of Everest, the world laid out before you, that no other climb will offer quite the same challenge. However, hanging from ropes on the icy face of Aconcagua’s glacier in South America, their bodies shuddering uncontrollably with cold, their fingers at risk of [...]
Small steps to spread the message and save the planet
The Good Market at the Colombo Racecourse had something more for its shoppers last Saturday with “Festival for Our Planet” - a day of environment advocacy through expert talks, fun performances and exhibits. The event marked the public debut of NGage Goodvocacy, the brainchild of Nimal Gunewardena, Chairman & CEO, NGage Strategic Alliance with the [...]
Letters to the Editor
Roads, Sri Lanka’s killing fields In the last few days I have had the misfortune of having to witness on TV, human beings being killed on Sri Lanka’s roads. Yesterday I saw another horrific incident. A baby who came off the clutches of his mum was crushed to death by a truck being driven at [...]
Bangkok’s Phra Buddha Sihing and the Sri Lankan connection
The “Phra Buddha Sihing” bronze and gold Buddha statue which commands pride of place at the Buddhaisawan Chapel right at the front of the National Museum, Bangkok is considered the second most revered Buddha image in Thailand after the “Emerald Buddha”. The aura of this image is dignified, quietly refined and serene. The face is [...]
Shehan’s back
RIP, Devil Dance. This week, in our Q&A with author Shehan Karunatilaka we take a moment to grieve for the much-anticipated manuscript that earned him a place on the shortlist for the 2016 Gratiaen, and gain some consolation in word of two new books, ‘Chats with the Dead’ and a children’s book and the possibility [...]
Songs from the golden years of Hindi film
“Jaltehainjiskeliye”, an evening of songs from the golden years of Hindi film music (the 50’s and the 60’s) will be presented by Sudhakar Rao, a former civil servant and music lover from Bengaluru accompanied by pianist Soundarie David Rodrigo, Indian guitarist Pradeep Rodrigo and musician and sound engineer Neranjan de Silva. The musical evening presented [...]
Appreciations
An illustrious man who treated all with equanimity and humility Cyril Tennakoon Impermanence, un-satisfactoriness and no-selfness are the true nature of things and if we could internalize these three characteristics of life in perception then we are at a sublime level of attainment. When I write about Cyril Tennakoon I can very well say that [...]
Umeshi brings ‘Pluralism’ to stage
The Mesh Academy of Dance (MAD) in collaboration with their sister company, Mesh Dance Theatre will soon bring to the public their new production ‘Pluralism’. Founder and Chief Artistic Director of Mesh Academy Umeshi Rajeendra who has choreographed the three dances in the show says it is a reflection of the different thoughts,views and opinions [...]
V Day 2019: Focus on Colombo 7
Since 2011 the Grassrooted Trust has performed V Day – Writings to End Violence against Women and Girls and since 2012 worked on original scripts based on their interaction with survivors of violence and abuse. Directed by Jith Pieris and Hans Billimoria, produced by Lihan Mendis and written by Paba Deshapriya, Dharini Priscilla and Hans [...]