Catharsis: How Jaffna is rebuilding itself using the arts
Since 2009, Jaffna has become host to hordes of curious tourists, visiting to see what a city ravaged by war looks like. For the residents, there are many bitter memories. It is…
Arts and Theatre
The politics of musical taste, the inadequacy of good intentions, and not saying “no!” to racism
Featured image courtesy Bands in Town The timeless universal language, music? Not the way I see it… in fact, a musical experience is much more likely to reflect a particular time, place,…
Shrillness of Nonsensical Cultural Politics and the Social History of a Song
The latest news from Sri Lanka’s often bizarre domains of cultural politics is that Buddhism is under threat along with Sinhala culture. This however, is not due to the corrupt and violent…
Copies of Loss
cc: Ravi, Priya, fighters both, taken before their time. Three pictures hang in my study. (Not my study actually, contractually; the bank retains the mortgage. I do not write in, from a…
Red Lines documentary screening & discussion
invites you to a screening of the award winning documentary ‘Red Lines’ on Tuesday, 15th December 2015, from 5 – 7.30pm at the LKIRRSS auditorium, 24, Horton Place, Colombo 7. The screening…
In Absentia
My blast through screens of Walmart.Com has left no visible trace, name drained from the database, the retailer cutting losses, unwilling to keep stock, especially in the department of war poetry. about…
Recording: ‘Designing the future: Plotting change, planning reform’
The statement in September by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister provided a timely frame of reference to appreciate the ‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition. From the security guards at the venue of the exhibition to international…
Recording: ‘Drawing power: Framing the inconvenient, imagining the impossible’
The statement in September by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister provided a timely frame of reference to appreciate the ‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition. From the security guards at the venue of the exhibition to international…
Recording: ‘Framing discourse: Media, Power and Democracy’
The statement in September by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister provided a timely frame of reference to appreciate the ‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition. From the security guards at the venue of the exhibition to international…
Recording: ‘The ‘F’ word and the Tamil National Question’
The statement in September by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister provided a timely frame of reference to appreciate the ‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition. From the security guards at the venue of the exhibition to international…
Recording: ‘The chiaroscuro of power: Architecture’s role in hegemony and change’
The statement in September by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister provided a timely frame of reference to appreciate the ‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition. From the security guards at the venue of the exhibition to international…
Recording: ‘The challenge of constitutional reform: Mediating change and managing continuity’
The statement in September by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister provided a timely frame of reference to appreciate the ‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition. From the security guards at the venue of the exhibition to international…
Recording: ‘The constitutional vision of the new government’
The statement in September by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister provided a timely frame of reference to appreciate the ‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition. From the security guards at the venue of the exhibition to international…
Recording: ‘Corridors of Power’ opening night presentations
The statement in September by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister provided a timely frame of reference to appreciate the ‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition. From the security guards at the venue of the exhibition to international…
Designing the future: Plotting change, planning reform
PANEL DISCUSSION: ‘Designing the future: Plotting change, planning reform’, 5.30-7.00pm, 22nd September JDA Perera Gallery, Horton Place, Colombo Free & open to public. Parking available inside the venue. Seating limited. If architecture…