Bogambora, the 22nd of June: pre-match rumour has it that free tickets are being issued for the school boys for the Singer Division A decider clash between Kingswood and Trinity, this coming Sunday.
In a related development, a Facebook Invitation is being circulated inviting Kingswoodians and Trinitians for this potential cruncher.
Others tell us plain that they [...]
Kingswood, Kandy, is the school that introduced rugby to Sri Lankan schools in 1893. In recent times, they have been one of the more fancied, crowed-pullers, winning the Super League thrice between 2003-2006 and dominating many other domestic schools’ championships.
However, no one would have believed any of these had they seen Kingswood playing this evening, [...]
Kingswood, Kandy celebrated its 117th anniversary in style as they made a late charge against an agile Anthonian attack at Nittawela this evening. The visitors from Randles’ Hill clinched the game 19-12, after trailing 7-3 at the breather.
However, the game was a huge let off from the stand point of “quality”, as loose ball [...]
UNIFUSION – the Peradeniya University Music Society’s all faculty evening of rhythm and dance – had many beats to it this time. The most irritating of these was a band of dissenters sent there (?) by what we believe is the / a hand of the Students’ Union, which has differences with an alternative student-political [...]
The School Rugby Season for 2008 is just kicking off. This week will see the first blood being drawn as, to my knowledge, at least 3 fixtures will go ahead between now and Saturday.
Going through last weekend’s English newspapers, however, we learn that “controversy” – arguably the winner of last season’s league [only second, maybe, to [...]
Vihanga [who contributes to the Poetry section here] and Sulla of black metal fame opened a tripartite dialogue on ”Sri Lankan creativity” on Saturday the 19th @ Kamani’s.
The focus on Saturday’s session was “Redefining poetry in our current context”. The dialogue, in fact, became a monologue as both parties waved a “high five” for the definition of poetry [...]
Our interpretations may fit the politics within which we operate; but, the Wimal Weerawansa ejection (or, as Wimal himself put it, the pending verdict against him) from the JVP was, for me, a modern day tragedy of the classical definition. The great man (within his political context, of course), the persuer of the grand design, [...]
The shortlist for the Gratiaen Prize 2008 was announced on the 7th of April at the British Council Colombo. This year’s shortlist is total Ars Poetica — as, out of 56 entrants, 05 entries of poetry made it to the final showdown scheduled for the 26th of April.
The shortlisted were:
Ramya Jirasinghe
Chamali Kariyawasam
Malinda Seneviratne
Sumathy Sivamohan
Vivimarie Vanderpooten
Out of the readings given [...]
Saturday the 5th of April. EOE Pereira Memorial Hall, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. Ten minutes past nine in the evening. The talk of the moment — “the devil”.
It indeed was the devil of creativity as DRAMSOC 2008 ended with a thunderous applause not only for the prize-winners, but also to the fantastic fusioning [...]
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 [...]
