Duishen – Chingiz Aitmatov I got a copy of Chingiz Aitmatov’s Duishen novel as an e-book through the Facebook Group පොත් කියවන අය. I read the 35-page e-book within a day. It was easier to read as I had already read its Sinhala translation, ගුරු ගීතය. Aitmatov’s Duishen is basically a soviet propaganda novel but it allures any reader irrespective of race ...
Sense and Sensibility Poster I haven’t read Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility yet. I should. I didn’t think it would be that interesting till I watched the movie based on the novel. Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 British-American film directed by Ang Lee based on Jane Austen‘s 1811 novel of the same name. English actress Emma Thompson wrote the ...
Sisters – Shobhaa De After reading Strange Obsession written by Shobhaa De, I had decided not to read her again. But in 2011, the year I spent without a job and was ‘omnivorous’ in reading books De’s “Sisters” caught my eyes. Since there was nothing else to read, I started opening up the pages of the novel. As usual, there ...
Strange Obsession – Shobhaa De I had never heard of Shobhaa De till Sunday Times exposed her in 1990’s subsequent to a visit by her to Sri Lanka to a book launch of hers. In an interview with her, a Sunday Times columnist had bombarded with a set of questions making her very uncomfortable. In fact, Shobhaa De is nothing ...
Durians for sale along Colombo – Negambo road – Photo – Nandasiri Wanninayaka This is the durian season. I tasted my first fruit yesterday after seeing a friend of mine’s photo of an opened durian in Facebook. I bought a fruit for 330 LKR. In fact I had to haggle it down to that amount from an original 350 LKR. ...
Dayasiri Jayasekara What was rumored for a long time finally happened a short while ago. UNP parliamentarian, comparatively young and popular Dayasiri Jayasekara comes back home, the SLFP. It is said that he was originally an SLFPier and had a rift with Chandrika Kumarathunga due to not appointing him an organizer of a certain seat in Kurunegala. Dayasiri must have ...
Betel Stain When considered with most of the other nations in the region, Sri Lankans are more lawful (not everyone is a Pradesheeya Sabha member) and educated… er… at least we have a far better literacy rate. They can be made to obey the rules. We could see this when attempts were taken by the government to make the Colombo ...
Idols Cover Page Sunil Gavaskar wrote ‘Idols’ on his most favourite cricketers. The book has profiled 30 odd cricketers of his time. The book profiles cricketers such as Rohan Kanhai (Gavaskar named his son as Rohan as a tribute to Kanhai), Sobers, Hadlee, Marsh, Kapil Dev, “Jimmy” Amarnath, “Zed” Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, Imran Khan, Viv Richards, Bishen Singh Bedi, ...
