Remember the lockdown of March 2020? When things started to happen to you and you had no control over them unless you were rich and influential? Where regimes did things to people that were too absurd to comprehend but you just had to agree to their cruel tyranny? In Sri Lanka we were told that we could not take a ...

DABBE was...absolutely refreshing in terms of horror fare. Unusual, original, authentic, wildly unpredictable, (which is difficult when one has been there done that in terms of every kind of nightmare film or book around...) and set in one of my favorite lands, Turkey. From the first few minutes you knew it was going to be good. Theres much to resonate ...

Dabbe" (also known as "Dabbe: The Possession") is a Turkish horror film directed by Hasan Karacadag, released in 2006. The movie has made a significant impact on the Turkish horror genre, and it stands out for its unique approach to supernatural horror and its deep connection to Islamic and Turkish folklore.The film's plot revolves around a group of individuals who ...

- Chandrika GadiewasamFrom human birth to death, in a maddening cyclical pattern of infancy, childhood, education, graduation, marriage,  reproduction, aging and continuous drudgery  to survive, through a whirlwind of meaningless traditions and festivals, milestones, new years, birthdays,  weddings, and  funerals, sickness and health... The human creature constantly seeks happiness and fulfilment and that SOMETHING….But…. are we ever content with what ...

Life after Rape: Stay away from the Second Arrow.   In Buddhism we are told that the mind is the forerunner of all conditioned things. A lot of pain is caused by our minds- which is indeed strange considering how many millennia we homo erectus spent trying to evolve a bigger and more intelligent brain. Have you seen a dog with TVT? ...

Twenty years of messing with proposals and deadlines and an uncoordinated head office- but this is officially the last straw that broke the camel's back.So last week my office told me they were all working feverishly on a deadline to submit a bid to the United Nations supplier portal. You just have to upload it, they said. It will be ready ...

photo from Morten Morland TimesIm sure the IT Crowd who developed it will have lots to say about this. Trust me I welcome a debate on it. These are just a few of my experiences over the space of 36 miserable hours trying to upload a proposal to help starving third world communities. The more evil memories have been suppressed by ...

Im sure the IT Crowd who developed it will have lots to say about this. Trust me I welcome a debate on it. These are just a few of my experiences over the space of 36 miserable hours trying to upload a proposal to help starving third world communities. The more evil memories have been suppressed by my mind.WARNINGS If ...

The housewives guide to competing for freelance workChandrika Gadiewasam for Kathru.comHow to actually find rewarding work from home? Be available. Be dependable. And deliver on time! You know who they are, they sidle up to you at various functions and say that they are looking for work, and giggle bashfully and say can you send some work their way. Comfortable looking, slightly frumpy ...

WAY TO GO, ROVER written and illustrated by Sakuntala Sachithanandan – 2023.…Book review by Chandrika GadiewasamRover arrives at Gamini's house unexpectedly, bundled out of a bag – much to innocent Gamini's delight but to the intense annoyance of granny Siriyawathie. He is a very small puppy ,found on the street  by an uncle.He is very small, lonely and terrified and he ...

WHERE ANGELS FEAR PROLOGUE "I remember the mountains in the morning. They caught the sunlight when it first appeared. The tips would become orange and then red and I would shiver because I remembered the meaning of life. The location was somewhere in Central Asia – I cant tell you exactly where, arid , heart-rendingly beautiful and cruel. It won't be any ...

   Happier times in Sri Lanka As I start typing there is something like a dead body trying to fight its way out of my freezer, and my house smells very much like the scene of a homicide where the murderer has tried to hide the evidence but failed. But as far as I'm concerned this is one of my good days. ...

A life we rarely seeA sweeping panorama of misty highland beauty greets the eye, bringing cool serenity to the heat and grit of Colombo.  The result of combined efforts of more than 3 dozen  youth from the plantation sector of Sri Lanka- and this time they have not been plucking tea leaves, but diverted their energies to a different art- ...

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Around twelve 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 positive diagnosis of diabetes. Well, yours truly, Chands, was in shock for a while and thought it was some kind of mistake! This was an OLD ...

….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 ...

So my friend  Zeeny sterilizes stray cats. Regularly. Obsessively. And persistently. She is happy that I told her how to go get them operated. You just have to grab them, starve them a few hours before, and make an appointment with a vet and take them over and then look after them for a few days afterwards till they heal. ...

FAA AGAINSo the next day I took the toy motorbike and gave to Nuzrath. I was feeling maybe that it was for his kid, Muad, but later I found that wasn't the case. Nuzrat didnt let me get away, he made me sit down and showed me how he had taken Amor's lost sock and sewed it onto the plastic biker ...

Chapter One CHUBSWhat would drive a man to cut off his dead lover's head?  Its not easy. That is the thought running through my mind as I race to meet my writing deadline at the Weekend Financial Review.I am frustrated. "No, you cannot interview the wife, because she is just too tired to talk anymore," says my editor. I stare angrily ...

An appreciation of Grand Master Hassan Khalid founder of Fei Quan Do International   It was with the greatest sorrow I heard of the sudden passing away of our beloved martial arts Master the Grandmaster Hassan Khalid founder of the Fei Quan Do international school of karate in Colombo. He passed away last Thursday at a ripe age of ...