Personal page and articles by Indran Amirthanayagam
Forgetting, Mullaitivu
The town is full of stray dogs, cows, ghosts, buildings pockmarked, unhinged, open to wind and rain. Soldiers patrol on...
Continue reading »Let us make the bombers accountable to us!
As I write more than 250,000 civilians are trapped in jungle near Mullaitivu. They have little food, water and medicine....
Continue reading »To The Courts, In Remorse
Drop all charges against Tissanaiyagam. his glaucoma needs treatment and his wife will be grateful, …and the Dean of the...
Continue reading »One of Us
During civilized periods in the history of kingdoms courtiers, or the king’s person himself, in audience with the gadfly, would...
Continue reading »Planes in the sky
My feet are tired pressed into asphalt climbing the campus hill, composing a sparer line: effervescence in mist, swirling about...
Continue reading »AFLAME – Remembering Black July, 1983
AFLAME – Remembering Black July, 1983 What is a poem to a man hiding in the cellar of his neighbor’s...
Continue reading »AFTER THE PARTY – in Memoriam: Anura Bandaranaike
I remember an evening flavoured by my mother’s cooking, bringing two smart patriots together, to speak about devolution not yet...
Continue reading »ON INDEPENDENCE DAY
The rollercoaster’s rolling full throttle, has a new booster rocket not subject yet to safety experiment, riders thrown every few...
Continue reading »OBSERVATIONS: INDEPENDENCE
Seven school boys, baseball players, coach, waiting for a train, at Fort Station, exploded; 18 passengers, pilgrims, Kandy to Dambulla,...
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