It’s past midnight and I’m still searching Searching for a party to join Walking past the neon lights Past the posh cars whizzing by With rich and powerful chasing Their dreams through the city night Empty streets, foul gutters Clicking stilettoes in flight Past the doors marked Members Only Lurid music throbbing through the [...]
This scorching heat Is not just the April sun Hovering right above this island Steaming The pressing air Is not just the heavy breath Of an erratic monsoon Slapping you into a daze This thunder is not the threatening Voices I begin to hear This lightning not the disappearing Shadows of people who [...]
Run away from me As fast as you can Forget the dreams You wanted to come true Run away from the voice You used to believe Give into the dull whine Of fear and doubt Things, they cannot be predicted Things, they can often go wrong Through the routine of the days We [...]
And now that I have you Next to me So calm is the night The moments twinkling Like stars in a Christmas sky Now that I have your arms Around me So warm is the night Our breaths intermingling With the wind-chimers’ sigh Now that I have your love Surrounding me So [...]
Nothing’s ever forgotten, is it? It was past midnight, and three of us middle-aged women, (yes, I suppose I can definitely call myself one), were working on a translation, Sinhala to English. The word was ‘ranketi’. My mind scurries back about 25 years in time. Emotions are hard to keep down when it’s past midnight, [...]
I remember a popular T-shirt we used to wear back in my college days in Delhi. I WAS BORN INTELLIGENT. EDUCATION RUINED ME. I am not sure if I am qualified to pass any statements about university education in Sri Lanka. I schooled here entirely. If it wasn’t for the few theatre projects that saved [...]
The Chinese missed this animal – the patriot in their zodiac. And the lion. But they got the monkey and the rabbit and the horse.They got the tiger,too. But let’s not talk about that! Slightly disturbing though, because we are so fond of the Chinese. If the Chinese had the patriot in their zodiac it [...]
Returned to Bolgoda to translate ‘No Return’ with Rajitha, Shyam and Gihan. It was a small bungalow on the edge of a lake with lotus and water-lily fringed banks. In fact, the very first entry of this blog came from my previous visit there, when I captured ‘Just another Lotus from Lake Bolgoda‘. And this [...]
Last Wednesday evening, after a tiring day, my soul needed a bit of art-therapy. Jumped into a tuk-tuk and got myself to John de Silva where the final round of State Drama Festival was taking place. Colombo Colombo, a play by Indika Ferdinando was on. There were many who liked it and disliked it and [...]
When I dream It is hard to deem This memory Isn’t entirely mine Or it isn’t me in that frame Propped up on her bed against the pillows The lampshade on the side table Blushing walls almost turquoise green The whiff of sea and freedom on her cheek You loved to breathe in Nana, tell [...]
I walked till my toes ached, in the Museuminsel (Museum Island) in Berlin. Couldn’t cover all the five museums; I managed Pergamon Museum and rushed through Altes Museum. I’m not quite sure what hooks me to ancient sites and museums when I step into such sites. It almost gives me a trance. Maybe it’s this [...]
So it’s Berlin 2010. It’s the fall. The maples are caught in the Autumn fire. The sun mellowed down and sentimental. My German colleagues tell me I’ve brought the sun with me, since it’s out again after weeks of rain and meek weather. And this time, as I was walking through the clean streets, with [...]
(19.35, 18-09-2010, waiting for QR 303) spotlessly glistening all too perfect world without a sense of time waiting waiting waiting in the transit lounge to take wings is it your face i see in the crowd in the reflection of the glass panes against dazzling zorowsky jewels armani versace window panes… i see only your [...]