By Uditha Devapriya In the course of his Budget speech last week, President Ranil Wickremesinghe quoted three figures: Sugathapala de Silva, Gamini Viyangoda, and Chintana Dharmadasa. All three quotes served to reinforce his belief that the country has as yet not broken out of its past. He then went on to outline his policies, all […]
By Uditha Devapriya This is the third and final in a series of candid vignettes about Tony Ranasinghe. Pauline Kael once observed of Marlon Brando that his characters suggested tragic force. Comparable as he would have been to Brando, Gamini Fonseka never epitomised this kind of force: the closest he ever came to embodying it […]
By Lynn Ockersz Oliver Twist has made a comeback…. From the West’s ‘satanic mills’, To the Indian Ocean’s wilting isle, Where sweat shops could thrive, Since child labour has got the nod, And the market’s ‘Invisible Hand’, Could seize with a deadly clasp, Every hapless soul that counts, And made to slave until they drop, […]
Azdak’s Judgments: by Laleen Jayamanne Soldier: Your Honour, we meant no harm. Your Honour, what do you wish? Azdak: Nothing, fellow dogs. Or just an occasional boot to lick! […] Fetch me wine, red wine, sweet red wine. ‘In a faraway and long-ago, dark and bloody epoch, in a sunburnt and cursed city, there lived […]
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