April 11, 2018 Lionel Ranwala Foundation leaves a footprint in Zhangjiajie (malindawords.blogspot.com) On the 8th of September, 2011, a young Sri Lankan, a medical student studying in China, had visited Zhangjiajie. On his [...]
April 11, 2018 Sri Lankan textures, colors and diversity (malindawords.blogspot.com) A question was put to a chef at lunch recently: ‘What is uniquely Sri Lankan when it comes to [...]
April 11, 2018 Reflections on the ‘microchip of our civilization’ Lionel Ranwala(malindawords.blogspot.com) Some time ago I wrote about Lionel Ranwala, the indefatigable archivist and exponent of traditional Sinhala music. A [...]
April 6, 2018 You did not forsake us there where the Yoda Ela bends Remembering Ranbanda Seneviratne There is a song written by Malini Jayaratne which her husband, T. M. Jayaratne sings. It makes [...]
April 3, 2018 Kavi Alexander: a poet of sound “The alchemy of the masters moving molecules of air, we capture by moving particles of iron, so that the poetry [...]
November 7, 2017 Amaradeva: a name for everything that is our little island Pic by Sandra Mack There are rain clouds, not too dark and not threatening. It might rain later. There was [...]
November 18, 2016 Saundarie and Kishani: classically of the heart Around three years worth of violin lessons from Eileen Prins and an equal number of years learning the piano from [...]
October 23, 2016 Bandula Nanayakkarawasam’s ‘Sekera Moment’ Perhaps it is because of a discernible suppression of Mahagama Sekera in the larger discourse of 20th Century Sinhala literature that [...]
October 23, 2016 Karunaratne Abeysekera Made Child and Childhood Cofter Still BOOK REVIEW ‘Karuge Lamaa Gee Potha’ (Karu’s Children’s Songs) by Karunaratne Abeysekera, published by Sarasavi Prakashakayo, illustrated by Sybil Wettasinghe, [...]
October 23, 2016 The lost songs of Gunadasa Kapuge Ranbanda Seneviratne is a man who never abandoned the ordinary and especially subjugated segments of this country, not where the [...]
