… to bake! I’d given up on baking. The last time I baked was a few months back when my cousin’s birthday came up. He would constantly remind me that I’d never cooked or baked anything for him and so I decided to bake him a batch of chocolate chip cookies for his birthday. Unfortunately, that was a disaster! The ...
…like this- Though it seems there are a few who believe the global One Billion Rising (OBR) campaign undermines the work of grassroot level organisation working on GBV (such as what this article expressed- Natalie Gyte). Or that it’s a campaign on a treadmill, like this comment on the Daily FT: In response to Natalie Gyte and Arvind, expecting a ...
and Sri Lanka needs a better amusement park. We drew this conclusion on a typical Sunday evening of having nothing to do in Colombo. We’d played a few games of pool and visited one of the many coffee joints mushrooming in the Capital. Strapped for stuff to do, we lingered outside the coffee shop for a while asking that confounded ...
Avurudu treats for sure! Hope you had as much avurudu kalivi as your sweet tooth could handle. Since koha’s are symbolic of the Sinhala and Tamil New year, I painted this… Happy Avurudu folks! Since I’m a bit handicapped now that my right big toe is missing a nail, I’ve confined myself to my bedroom so I won’t stub it ...
The plan was to climb scale Lakegala, that monstrous mountain you see in the pic, over the weekend. Thankfully, we got back alive; though not in one piece. I lost a toe. Okay… a toe nail really. But before I get into the gory details, I’ll tell you more about Lakegala! We took a bus to Kandy and then ...
Proposal- such an unglamourous word. It’s got none of the quixotic trappings of falling in love and living happily ever after. The whole process of a marriage proposal is clinical. First you and the potential-other is sized up- what you do for living, what your family background is, any black marks ...
Snapped while driving through heavy traffic in Maradana In the scorching, dusty streets of Colombo the scene is all too familiar. As soon as the traffic lights switch to red, a beggar with a brawling toddler over her shoulder rushes up to your car and taps on the shutter. Standing in the sweltering heat, sweat dripping from her temples, she ...
Okay… so this one isn’t too cartoony and you might not spot the non-human bit because somehow it’s un-spottable. It’s a bit rushed and messy but this is revenge for mocking and teasing me yesterday! Any guesses as to who this may be?
“Statistics have revealed that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS”. Another reason as to why I am rising, and this is what I stated in the One Billion Rising (OBR) South Asia video ...
I shifted rooms this weekend. With my siblings no longer living at home, I decided to relocate myself into the best room in the house! It’s actually the smallest room (where the architect-sister dumped all her building models) but the view out the windows is gorgeous! Well… mostly tall yellow and green bamboo trees, but it’s pretty nevertheless and ...
Graffiti. The stuff we have in Sri Lanka ranges from school boys defaming other schools on random walls or spraying the name of their ex-girlfriends on walls and following it up with an expletive. Yeah, over here cans of spray paint are used for vandalism, revenge and defamation. Nothing pretty. But cities across the world, even our neighbour—India, have pretty ...
Dang! I’ve lost count. Oh well. Try to guess who this blogger is… Clue; she’s come for two Open Mics and she gave Nibras Bawa a grand virtual whopping! Any guesses? All right, so most of my previous posts have been of sketches or paintings, but hey art is therapeutic, ...
The Three Musketeers I checked out Sri Lanka’s first 3D cinema last week. While it might have been that Three Musketeers was shot in 2D and rendered 3D later- it just wasn’t all that brilliant. Sure, seeing famous actors pop off the screen is pretty neat (it feels like a theatre performance) but somehow several scenes still felt very 2D. ...
Inadvertently of course. Though it’s quite sad that they campaign with such passion to be exactly what patriarchy (and capitalism) wants of women. Take slut-walk for instance. Sure, I agree that women should have the freedom to wear whatever they want and not be oogled or worse raped. But we all know that clothes have nothing to do with ...
It’s been almost six years since I created this blog. But over this half decade I’ve transformed and out grown the Messiah of Madness; or as one of my blogging friends teases, ‘MoM’. I started out as an anonymous blogger, sharing little bits of my life with other Sri Lankans and the rest of the world. I was fiercely protective of my identity, ...
…through the streets of Katmandu. A wider street in New Road, Kathmandu Almost racing to keep up, we’re following our Nepali friend cum tour/foody guide. We navigate through New Road (a Pettah-like) marketplace– weaving through dense crowds of people, squeezing through narrow alleys, leaping out of the way of crazy motorcyclists and chickens, dipping through hobbit-sized entrances that lead into (what seems ...
To my right a man is hauled off by the police. He tries to resist but it’s futile as four policemen load him into a police jeep and drive off. I’m snapping away as the jeep speeds off into the distance, when a voice behind me asks, ‘what just happened?’ I explain to the man in a brown t-shirt, that ...
