A Booker chat with Shehan
Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker Prize 2022, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Shehan received the award from Britain’s Queen Consort Camilla at an awards ceremony in London on Monday. Pop singer Dua Lipa was the star [...]
Shades of the future
Kosala Weerasekara is like a crystal ball in that he reflects in chinks and gleams, the future of our architecture. Winner of the coveted Young Architect of the Year award in both 2020 and 2022, at the Design Awards organised by the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, the 37-year-old says he has ‘no style’ but [...]
Prof. Kotagama on Sinharaja forest
Prof. Sarath Kotagama will deliver the National Trust lecture for this month on Thursday, October 27 at 6 p.m., online. He will talk on ‘Sinharaja World Heritage Site: The Lesser Known Facts’. The link to join the Zoom meeting is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81438032106 Professor Sarath Kotagama is a former Director, Department of Wildlife Conservation and Scientific Adviser [...]
CAN Market: Celebrating a creative community 2 years on
Saturday, October 29, is a special day for the CAN Market, for it marks the second anniversary of the COVID-birthed movement presented by the Creative Isle founded by entrepreneur, Keshini Ann Suraweera. The CAN Market will be open from 4 p.m at the One Galle Face (OGF) mall. The market is an amalgamation of micro-entrepreneurs [...]
Ena’s fascination with local fauna and flora
Ena de Silva, whose 100th birth anniversary falls today, October 23, 2022, is renowned for her skills in the design of batiks and handicrafts and played a vital role in reviving the arts and crafts in this country. Those within her circle knew her passion for natural history, but few understood how it inspired her [...]
Carrying on her legacy at the Aluwihare Heritage Centre
Celebrated for her batik art, Ena de Silva taught not just batik techniques but numerous crafts, generously imparting her experience and knowledge to the many young women she worked with, who today proudly carry on her legacy at the Aluwihare Heritage Centre in Matale. It was in the 1980s that Ena converted her father’s home [...]
Letters to the Editor
Generations-long cinnamon cultivation may come to an end I grow cinnamon and other export crops and it has come to a stage where the difficulties are becoming unbearable. The yield has reduced and weeding costs increased significantly due to lack of fertiliser and weedicides. Now the situation has gone from bad to worse due to [...]
APPRECIATIONS
A driving force in the development of Aquinas College Very Rev. Dr. W.D. Gerald Chrispin Leo I was introduced to the genial Very Rev. Fr. Chrispin Leo in the late 1980s, as the newly appointed Rector of Aquinas Colombo 8. He nominated me to the Aquinas Alumni Association. Rev. Fr. Chrispin developed Aquinas to greater [...]