….ie more of that rahu/ kethu/ aturu dasha crap Its about two years since I last wrote for WOW officially and may I say I'm glad to be back. Quite a lot has happened in my life in these two years and you can be sure I will be updating you about it, in occasionally painful detail. Now where ...
COVID19 as a manifestation of the divine feminineFinally, we are forced to stay in one place, in one quiet time period and to think. Finally, we can reevaluate the rules that we were born into, the reality that we were made to accept was true. A hidden disease is destroying average people like you and me in hundreds, in thousands, it ...
Its the 7th of April 2020 and Im writing from a beautiful Island named Sri Lanka inside a curfew, which is different from lockdown in that people actually get arrested if they are caught walking about, in theory. However, in a strange way, rules only seem to apply to people who fear the rules. Anxiety is for those who accept ...
- sometimes – because of a name, lives touch. Because of a name, lives connected in strange ways. What's in a name, you may ask? Ever since I divorced and changed my name at roughly the same time Im prepared to admit there was some effect definitely. Underworld criminals probably swear by their aliases and their lives depend on ...
Greetings and warm regards from Purradise. It is I, Peachy the 23rd, descendant from a long line of regular backyard cats, distantly related to Serious the 48th, who was a rather foreign I hear having been brought into the country on a Portuguese galleon in the time of the Kandyan Kings. Knowing her character though Im sure she ...
THE MAGIC OF BREATHWORKsIn July 2019 after ten years in a tumultuous relationship, I picked up the courage to walk out. I thought I would be devastated. I had loved him for more than a decade, he had rescued me after my first marriage completely broke down. It seemed to me that I desperately needed a man and needed love ...
I dont have a degree in Communications. Neither does my daughter Nadeesha. But we have been published for a number of years in leading newspapers, written two columns and been co- authors of a book, not to mention co founders of popular online forums with thousands of members. My writing has shamed a big company into doing the right thing. ...
By Chandrika GadiewasamIn Sri Lanka which boasts some of the highest snakebite deaths in the world, where snakes are hated and feared, one man daily puts his life on the line to save any snake he can. He has given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a deadly Indian cobra and he keeps a saline solution and aloe vera tub to help heal ...
Chandrika GadiewasamSome of the deprived sad food my whole family has been forced to eat due to my diabetes. Ok you know Im being snarky (Photos courtesy Nadeesha Paulis)Some years ago, when I was hovering on the magical brink of becoming a symbolic 39, I went in for my annual overall check up and the reports came in with a ...
Chandrika Gadiewasam 2008 DIAS-PORAS They are cleaner, shiny and their luggage smells good. Their kids speak alien tongues and burst apologetically into delicate pink bubbles in the evenings, on principle. You know who I'm referring to, it's the Diaspora. That's those Returnees, kalu suddas, pita-rata-kattiyas or in other words the sweet friends and relations of ours who have managed ...
To write the last bit of this book I took a bit of leave from my human rights NGO office and stayed in our village, at my house Jungle Library, surrounded by fields, tall old trees, 3 rude cats, and three thousand books. You can google "Jungle Library Sri Lanka"and see photos of this place and the surroundings (there are ...
by Chandrika Gadiewasam ● Cyber crime a serious emerging threat to young women ● Sri Lanka's legislation to protect women comparatively strong ● Women often do not know their rights ● Sri Lanka as a prime tourism destination could be tarnished by GBV It is estimated that one in four of Sri Lankan women are victims ...
January 13th, Ramanna Nikaya Headquarters, Colombo 5 A media conference was organised by Justice for Animals, a community project under the Sri Bodhiraja Foundation, to discuss the enactment of the Animal Welfare Bill. The panel consisted of three key speakers; Ven Dr Omalpe Sobhitha Thero - President of the Sri Bodhiraja Foundation, Mr U. R. de Silva - President ...
On a side note serial bigamy though rarely heard of is lucrative in Sri Lanka as reported by one of the inmates, an ex-army chap who proudly told Keju Ayya about his handiwork. Being merely somewhat good looking and coherent,and also with the automatic veneer of heroic respectability that army personnel were automatically imbued with after the defeat of ...
Curious* was discovered by a local garbage dump, weak, hungry and crooked, one soggy July evening in 2005 . Numerous unpleasant incidents with our growing menagerie mean, that we try not to see or hear stray orphans as we walk or drive around the streets of Colombo, but this one hit my eyes, solidly and firmly although it probably ...
When I met my adorable mother in law Mrs Sesi Paulis she was about 70 and I was 19 so actually more than a mother in law, she seemed like a grandma to me too which was wonderful since I didn't have one of my own. She was a very graceful and elegant figure in usually light blue sarees with ...
When I met my adorable mother in law Mrs Sesi Paulis she was about 72 and I was 19 so actually more than a mother in law, she seemed like a grandma to me too which was wonderful to me since I didn't have any of my own. She was a very graceful and elegant figure in usually light blue ...
image aptly titled "our packages" from chandrapanagoda.lk I didn't know till recently how much a coffin costs in Sri Lanka, it hasn't been that high in my "need to know" list. But this year I found out that it can be anything from 20,000 to 400,000 LKR.,and at each end of the spectrum the damn things look the same! They are ...
July 18And so these days prompted by Uncle Normal, and his classy vegan friends, we are all on a drive to be a bit more earth- and environment- conscious. (Even more than we previously were) In our little nuclear family (single mother and two kids albeit adult) this requires somewhat strange new practices like cleaning the commode with baking ...
