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Reflections on ‘Widows’ and ‘Unearthed’
Work and travel kept me from writing about two significant theatre productions in the past month. Ariel Dorfman’s ‘Widows’ directed...
Continue reading »Mediated: Portraying hard data on Sri Lanka through art
Mediated, an exhibition around a new aesthetic that seeks to communicate constitutional theory, hard data from economics and social polling...
Continue reading »Invitation to prospective writers: A Sri Lankan Anthology of Hint Fiction
Photo courtesy The Blue Bookcase Around two months ago, I picked up on a whim Hint Fiction edited by Robert...
Continue reading »In conversation with Bishop Duleep de Chickera
I clearly remember Bishop de Chickera at S. Thomas’ College, from around 25 years years ago. The fact that I...
Continue reading »The middle finger to the middle-path in Sri Lanka
A week ago, we disgraced ourselves. Racist louts, some in the garb of Buddhist monks, engaged openly in speech and...
Continue reading »Are Chinese Telecoms acting as the ears for the Sri Lankan government?
The title is inspired by the article Are Chinese Telecoms Acting as the Ears for Central Asian Authoritarians? published in Eurasianet.org,...
Continue reading »In conversation with Shashi Tharoor at Galle Literary Festival
As part of the Galle Literary Festival, I had the opportunity to speak with Shashi Tharoor, whose writing I’ve immensely...
Continue reading »Optics and politics of grief
Photo courtesy asianews.it “I was on my motorcycle going through this area behind a couple on a motorcycle. The woman was...
Continue reading »The Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA): What implications for Sri Lanka?
There are a lot of websites in the US that have gone black to protest against the proposed Stop Internet...
Continue reading »Review of ‘Right of Way: A journey of resettlement’
I was delighted when asked to review Right of Way: A journey of resettlement by Sharni Jayawardena and published by...
Continue reading »Milinda Moragoda’s ‘Right to Information’: A sordid record of its real nature and limits
The Hansard of 20th September 2011 records a question posed by Dr. Harsha de Silva in Parliament over the campaign...
Continue reading »Fundamental questions for AJM Muzammil and the UNP
Last Friday, I was slated to interview the UNP’s Mayoral candidate AJM Muzammil on public television. After his media manager...
Continue reading »Hacking mayoral campaign promises
Photo from Asian Mirror In Open-source policy formulation for Sri Lanka’s capital, an article published on the Lanka Business Online website...
Continue reading »Milinda Moragoda: The gap between promise and reality
Milinda Moragoda’s on-going mayoral campaign is interesting on many counts. Particularly appealing to me is that it is extremely web...
Continue reading »Joshua Roman in Sri Lanka
I met Joshua Roman, a TED Fellow, at TED 2011. TED audiences are very hard to please. Because of the...
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