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Culture, International, Issues, Music

Leonard Cohen: The Stranger, the Master

The master of the modern love song, whose intricate and intense musical cartography of the relationships between men and women provided the soundtrack of our private lives, has come down like Moses…

Dr Dayan Jayatilleka Dr Dayan Jayatilleka on 11/11/201611/11/2016
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
Culture, Identity, Issues, Music

Koothu to Kolam: An Island in Sound

The Galle Music Festival was a true celebration of the diversity between and within cultures of Sri Lanka. The many facets of the Sinhala and Tamil communities, based on their geographical locations…

Amalini De Sayrah Amalini De Sayrah on 05/17/2016
Culture, Issues, Media and Communications

Book Review: From Shame to Sin by Kyle Harper

Featured image courtesy Amazon (Adapted from Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’) To use a colloquial phrase, Buddhism has no special “hang-up” about sex; the third of Buddhism’s five moral Precepts carries no more…

Prof. Charles Sarvan Prof. Charles Sarvan on 02/13/2016
Culture, Issues, Religion and faith

A 2500 year-old Culture that was!

Featured image courtesy AFP The current wave of Sinhala-Buddhist supremacism, and attempts to establish a ‘Sinhala-Buddhist Raj’ in Sri Lanka, if left unchecked will eventually lead to fragmentation of Sri Lanka into…

Sharmini Serasinghe Sharmini Serasinghe on 02/03/2016
Culture, Fiction / Creative Writing, Galle, Language, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Poetry

On GLF and Evolving Culture

Featured image courtesy Amalini de Sayrah Last week saw the usually sleepy town of Galle come to life with the Galle Literary Festival. In a celebration of all things literary, Colombars descended…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/22/201601/23/2016

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