Stark house on stilts
It is rare for an architect to have a signature style that could be recognized immediately. Geoffrey Bawa had it, as did Minnette de Silva with her penchant for quaint Kandyan décor and verandahs and courtyards spilling over with tropical foliage- also Valentine Gunesekera with his austere masculine modernism. Though he fumbles for words to [...]
Thenuwara returns with a message for the times, online
Chandraguptha Thenuwara’s new exhibition of work ‘Atmosphere | At/most/fear’, is currently being shown online by the Saskia Fernando Gallery. One of Sri Lanka’s leading contemporary artists, Thenuwara has since 1997, held annual exhibitions from the 23rd of July to mark the July 1983 riots. His current exhibition will continue till August 13. “My exhibition each [...]
Letters to the Editor
It’s timely to share the findings on the nature of COVID-19 found here The news reaching us, the general public, after the Kandakadu debacle is unsettling, to say the least. Inklings of community spread, as the epidemiologist Dr Samaraweera warns, may herald the second wave (or really the first wave of community spread). DIG Ajith [...]
Appreciations
His life’s mission was to serve mankind at every possible turn Noel Wijenaike Noel Wijenaike passed away on July 6. He was only two months away from his 91st birthday. For him, it was not just achieving longevity, although longevity was a hallmark of his generation that grew up without the stress and urgency of [...]
Qwest Care: First ‘Companion Care’ service in Sri Lanka
Modern day lifestyles require most of us to be busier than we were yesterday. Our lives are bound by more commitments and to-do accomplishments than our parents were. Certain commitments force us to embrace lifelong changes, some more drastic than the others such as migrating to a foreign country, shifting residences closer to the workplace, [...]
A humble temple with far reaching significance
“He who is with form and without form, who has no beginning or end, who manifests as one and as many, who is the reflection of Brahman, the eternal reality, who originated as powerful flame of fire, whose six sacred faces full of grace and compassion whose twelve arms ever extending blessings, who manifested as [...]
The one that got away – Prasanna Welangoda
Prasanna Welangoda got into photography in 2012, when he borrowed his aunt’s ‘ancient tank of a camera’ to go on holiday. He took his first portrait later that year, in Negombo: an old lady smoking a beedi (‘to this day one of my favourite shots’) – and after that began to see the world a [...]