I wake up at 4 am to the sound of my son calling “tha tha tha”. He is still too young to distinguish between genders, and is happy calling everyone dad. Or at least that is what the sounds combined would mean in Sinhala. But nope, Akashiv does not think it has any difference, whether he calls his mum dad, ...

Written by Kaushalya Premachandra “Traditional knowledge is an important part of Sri Lankan culture and identity. Today, it has also been identified as a source of valuable information, which can be used for innovation and economic gain.” says Naazima Kamardeen, lecturer at the Faculty of Law,  University of Colombo. The idea of traditional knowledge can be drawn from different facets ...

Kaushalya Premachandra is a final year law student at the faculty of law, University of Colombo. She loves music, poetry and enjoys being alone in a quiet and peaceful environment. Having been sensitive to environmental issues since childhood she currently volunteers at Sri Lankan Youth Climate Action Network, and works as a research assistant at the Center for Law and Analysis.

It’s good when you can be yourself with your partner. Something rare I suppose since we make that extra effort to make believe to another that we are something else, or we try to change for the other party. But for a change, it is good to be myself with him. He understands, he laughs, and he accepts. He makes ...

I like the room. It’s small, it’s closed and gives me space. I block the sounds out, the faces and the rest out, and try to read. Reading, a thing that I used to like, but have lesser and lesser time to do of late. Reading used to be a hobby till I started studying law, now it has become ...

I have found many a thing frustrating with regard to banks. Standing in queues while the bank employee hangs on the phone for hours, eternal waits to collect money from checks. But topped all of it is getting a loan, or rather getting information on the possibility of getting a loan. I have been having my bank account in this ...

It was funny to read those words, but they were there, in one of those mails that he sent her. It had taken him 9 months to write to her. He had maintained his silence through his child’s birth, through the divorce, and then he decides to break it. For what cause? To tell her that he never loved her. ...

“I love you” “Not convincing enough!” she tells him. So he tries again, in different intonation, and different rhythms. “Convincing enough?” She laughs, he looked good, especially when trying to be convincing. He had tried to convince for a while, though she had other things to occupy herself with, than being convinced by him or love. Once, she had been ...

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“I love you” he says. She was a stranger to feelings. At a certain point in life, where life was simpler, she believed she loved him, in a very stupid unrealistic way. The way Bollywood movies make people believe. Silence, the norm. “I know you love me” he says. He had decided for her. As usual. “Do I?” “Don’t you?” ...

He was at his nocturnal rounds, pacing in all aimlessness. She seated at the steps, with puffs of smoke that blow without rhythm, interrupted by occasional coughing. A sign that reminded her that She had lost touch with her inner being, i.e. the tobacco being. She tried thinking Zen as his steps be heard around her. His t-shirt, she did ...

I think of him. the puffs of smokes, the stalking eyes and the bitter cynical behavior that follows. I tell him “black” and see him in “white” . A paradox of all sorts, he and I live, which we name not, a thing that needs no definition, a passion not lived and brought to a stale-mate. A moment of happiness ...

When your phone battery dies on you, and the hotel decides not to have internet, you know you are on your own for a while. Life gets pretty simplistic, and then thoughts start to flow, which is not disrupted by a chat message you have the urgency of sending had you been elsewhere, with happy access to technology. Here you ...

W.K Achala Priyadarshani’s left hand was amputated on the 22nd January 2013 at the General Hospital, Colombo. She is currently a final year student at the faculty of law, at the University of Colombo. She was left-handed and it was this hand that was amputated. Cause for Amputation Achala was admitted to the Matara Hospital on 17th January 2013 to ...

“You are crazy!” someone told me. I am sure that person has a lot of knowledge in psychology to make such a worthy comment. Then again, isn’t it always good to be called “crazy” than “boring”? I mean many of those who were considered crazy in their time, are considered quite the opposite today, when the truth be revealed on ...

Today I said goodbye to a friend. A friend I could talk and complain to about life. A friend who would hear me through, and tell me, “have you really thought this through?” I remember walking into Coco, and bumping into him, and he the busy person would still find the time to come and check on how I was, ...

If you think life can get any worse, try living married to a person on paper while people call your office telling that the man who was supposed to be abroad, and claimed by parents to have no contacts with them, is walking around Colombo with his mistress. Well if you have been there, lived it and survived, then you ...

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