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Real heroes aren't hard to find in a world ravaged by war and earthquakes

Sri Lanka, April 9 -- In a deeply troubled world, the past week looked not just troubled, but traumatic-a 7.7 magnitude earthquake devastated Myanmar, already torn apart by civil war; Ekrem Imamoglu, ... Read More


As Plato said to Ion, 'you aren't skilled, but you are divine'

Sri Lanka, March 26 -- Resuming our discussion of writer and critic Eric Illayapaarchchi's in depth analysis of music (from his book 'Kalaawa Soya Yema' or In Search of Art), we come to a provocative ... Read More


Richard, Manorani and 'Rani': Murky waters and a culture war

Sri Lanka, March 5 -- The controversy sparked by Asoka Handagama's biopic 'Rani', about the lives of Richard De Zoysa and his mother Dr. Manorani Saravanamuttu, is so one-sided that I feel duty-bound ... Read More