Catch the last day of the Ceylon Lit Fest
The HSBC Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival or ‘Festival on Beira’ as this edition has been dubbed opened on Friday and has Colombo milling not just with books and the arts but a scintillating mix of “something for everyone” – whatever intellectual wavelength you are on. There were on Friday and yesterday engrossing conversations and [...]
Demystifying the classics
Edith Hall is a far cry from your average classics professor. As we meet her at the Cinnamon Lakeside, she is glamorous and suave, and we discover, on a mission to move the ‘classics’ away from the ‘classy’ (the two words come from the same Latin root). She was also one of the first classical [...]
“I am home wherever I live’
I meet Indran Amirthanayagam in a café thick with espresso and the Monday morning din of people mingling business with pleasure. Indran in holiday attire, is calmly reading a book, waiting for me. I think “how appropriate – just the man we want in the Tower of Babel!” For that is what Indran is: poet [...]
Letters to the Editor
Tenant Protection Bill: Is the cure worse than the disease? Quite rightly, the Government has agreed in court to reconsider the proposed Tenant Protection Bill. As currently worded, the Bill dangerously tilts the balance in favour of tenants, including those who default on rent, damage property, and fail to pay electricity and water bills—while leaving [...]
APPRECIATIONS
An exemplary human being who will forever be in our hearts CHITRAN DE ALWIS I’m still getting used to a world in which I’m unable to call him when I feel like it. Somehow, it doesn’t feel right, and it doesn’t feel fair. It has been just over a year since my dearest friend Chitran [...]
When Kala Pola turned Green Path into a feast of creativity
Where to stop, where to look? Art enthusiasts had a stimulating and enriching experience at this year’s Kala Pola which spread through the length of Green Path last Sunday and brought together artists from all over the country with a diverse array of styles encompassing art, sculpture and much more – a feast of creativity. [...]
Nyne’s Bentota art hotels warmed by personal touch
Driving down Galle Road in Bentota, you are enticed by two new elegant white properties lined with frangipani trees. They are Nyne’s latest twin resorts Anuprit and Anugrah – ‘art hotels’ where founder-owner Nayantara Fonseka has with intuitive style put together cosy spaces with a personal touch where details from the art on the walls [...]
WNPS marks Wetlands Month with talks by two experts
The Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS) will mark World Wetlands Month with a timely lecture on wetland conservation - Wetlands of Sri Lanka: Traditional Wisdom, Society and Science in a Changing Climate on February 19 at 6 p.m. at the Jasmine Hall, BMICH. The lecture will bring together Dr. Priyanie Amerasinghe, Emeritus Scientist, Human and Environmental [...]