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| Cheers Arthur of
Serendip! |
ADVERTISTMENTS |
 Sri Lanka would not be celebrating the 90th birthday of Sir Arthur C. Clarke today, December 16, or anticipating the impending visit of American author Gore Vidal as a participant in the Galle Literary Festival in January, if not for a stroke of good luck concerning the back axle and differential of a CTB bus. Over the years, many famous authors, scientists, film-makers and personalities of every description have been drawn to Sri Lanka in order to visit Arthur. |
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| Peter’s suits beckon Lanka’s elite |
 Amidst the stack of clothing material surrounded by racks, holding rows of new suits or dresses lay a large, thick album on a table that tells the story.
Pasted page after page are the visiting cards of a sizeable coterie of Sri Lanka’s movers and shakers – politicians, bureaucrats, businesspersons, top military men, lawyers, journalists, doctors, company directors, executives and what have you? |
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| This is the way we
speak English no! |
 “What’s the difference between samba, sambur, sambhur and sambol? A molgaha and a miris gala? Malu miris and miris malu? A mudalali and a mudaliyar?”
I’m only on the jacket blurb of Michael Meyler’s ‘A Dictionary of Sri Lankan English’, and I can already tell that it is going to be the best kind of educational experience. In fact, if I read his dictionary from cover to cover, I should be able to provide satisfactory answers to where you could find a floor patient.... |
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