PREMONISION

Much the wiser and no hidden fears
Abandoned by all hearty cheers
Is this me in 30 years……?

MONK ROCKS THE BUS

This, to me, was the worst cultural farce of recent times. Happened on Thursday the 26th, in a bus bound from Kandy to Mahakanda. Time was around 8.40-8.45, just after the morning rush hour. It all began when, at Getambe, near the Teaching Hospital, a young monk got in to the bus. And, indeed, no [...]

SHIHAN KOLLA FLOPS WITH 2nd DREAM

Shihan Mihiranga released his 2nd solo effort, “Dreamz 2” at the Water’s Edge a few weeks back. The writer, who is head over heels with Shihan as a performer, however, found his 2nd album to be quite a disappointment. The promise, the talent that was crying to mature in his debut solo seemed to have [...]

JHU PICKET BEFORE KINGSWOOD

Kingswood back in the news — this time, a JHU monk finds fault.
Last Saturday (15th Mar) a politically significant JHU MP-monk and another regional political figure of the JHU crashbanged their way into the Kingswood College premises and dispersed an ongoing religious meeting at the College Main Hall.
The alleged MP-monk (who became famous for his alleged heart-attack on [...]

MAHINDA-AUGUSTUS CHINTHANAYA

Read the weekly political evaluation by “Nagasena” on the Iridha Divayina and you will realize that the country is running smoothly. Then, you step out of your house and from Monday through Saturday, you realize – with a certain bitterness – that the person who baptized ”Nagasena” had got it spot on: cos, he, like a [...]

THE VEIL, IN OUR LORDS’ HANDS

Every picture has its own story, mate. As long as that story is not interjected with another’s agenda and another’s politics. But, then — then, it is not a story, is it? How can there be a story without a politics? Without a point of view? Without subjectivity? Without a “yes” and a “no”?
 THE CLASH [...]

SPEECH ACTS

We have spoken, now
We’re silent. We
Meet with knowing eyes, knowing
Not what to do, where to go
Without knowing
 
And our riddles defeat meaning, now,
Neither too sure, what we meant when we
Meant what we meant when we meant
What we meant – we know
Where I stand. We know that we’re longing.
 
I propose to stay and wait. You
Propose that [...]

CUBIC

You say,
Oh, Lord Jesus,
Your beard looks just like his.
 
I say,
The Lord bless those eyes then,
Embedded in those sockets like pearls
In an oyster’s tummy, making claims,
Breaking chains that would never
Bind us together.
 
You say things, I say,
Of Cubic reality.
Complexifying the simple,
Supersimplifying the world,
Knowing me and you,
Resisting contact now that
Contact is made.

KINGSWOOD SPANK THE RAJANS @ Asgiriya

March 16th, Asgiriya.
Dharmaraja were skittled out for a paltry 108 in the 26th over, in their Annual Limited Overs Cricket game against Kingswood, at the Asgiriya Stadium today. Play commenced only at 12.30 p.m. owing to wet ground conditions after overnight showers – and what ultimately unfolded was a game stunted to 31 overs per [...]

“Avakaashayata Saapekshava”: LAKSHAN(THA) UNLEASHES IT.

Avakaashayata Saapekshava  

March 18th – Arts Theatre. University of Peradeniya.
Lakshan(tha) De Silva moves relative to space with the launch of his
Avakaashayata Saapekshava

Supposed to be “tharkaya lekhana.gatha kireemak”. Little rhyme-lets of logical thought. Thought rolled into little creative pieces of verse. We’re simply quoting Lakshan here. But, knowing him and by the virtue of previous experience, there’re two [...]