Apple Inc rolled out its virtual credit card on Tuesday, working with bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc on the new iPhone add-on that may help Apple diversify from device sales and build out the Wall Street bank’s new consumer business. Apple announced the card in March, aiming to draw in iPhone owners by offering a card with 2% cash ...
The man was greater than life. So now that he is dead, it is rather difficult to believe that we will see him no more. It is as if he has passed on to the other realm that he so often wrote about. In that world where Earth, Heaven and the Underworld are one, in the place where mortals speak ...
Simon Nawagattegama talks of socialist realism in the manner of a man who has invented it. Mop-haired, bespectacled and chain-smoking, he clutched a yellow covered book he has written on the subject and said: “I have discussed in this book a lot of misconceptions on the subject. The misconceptions are mostly held by the so-called socialist themselves. “One comes up ...
I saw “Suba saha Yasa” on a beautiful cool evening last week at the open air John De Silva theatre – a worthy memorial to the bard – long long after it had commenced its public run. Since its opening I have heard a diversity of views ranging from unbridled adulation to the harshly critical, not to mention a tediously ...
Simon Navagattegama was probably one of the greatest writers of the Sinhala language. He has been considered as a writer who used most sophisticated literary traditions in his writings. No one will go against the idea that he wrote something innovative, but very few will be able to describe that innovativeness in detail. Navagattegama’s works are not easy to analyse ...
In the established modern Sinhala theatre, few other plays have changes and re-shuffled their cast so much as “Suba saha Yasa”, the play had already become the rage when Upali Attanayaka, who had played the role Yasa with flamboyant assurance was suddenly not available. It is difficult to break through an image already associated with an actor of force and ...
