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Author: Dylan Perera

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Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Reading Poetry at the Attorney General’s Department

A prisoner goes to the jail’s library to borrow a book. The librarian says, “I am sorry, we don’t have this book, but we have its author.” It’s a Turkish joke, much…

Dylan Perera Dylan Perera on 07/28/202107/30/2021
Human Rights, Issues, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Blasphemy and the Prisoner of Buddhism

For the last 11 weeks Shakthika Sathkumara, an award winning creative writer, has been deprived of his liberty by the State, for what appears to be the crime of blasphemy. Apart from…

Dylan Perera Dylan Perera on 06/22/2019
Arts and Theatre, Culture, Issues

Thatta Gayikawa (The Bald Soprano) – A Review

Mild trepidation accompanied me to the Punchi Theatre the other night (29th July). A jaded palate with too much memory of stale theatrical tropes – the growing longing for the escape hatch…

Dylan Perera Dylan Perera on 08/10/2016
Arts and Theatre, Issues, Peace and Conflict, Transitional Justice

Art and Truth Telling: The Singularity of Truth

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), and the Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts (VAFA) exhibition of 14 artists from different parts of Sri Lanka imagining transitional justice which recently exhibited at the…

Dylan Perera Dylan Perera on 04/04/201604/04/2016

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