New Delhi, July 12 -- Taking a respite from the dull election campaign and social distancing due to COVID-19 pandemic, Colombo's elite is currently fascinated with a fictionalized biography of Sri Lanka's first female architect Minnette de Silva, who passed away in 1988 when she was 80 years old. Minnette and her sister Anil, daughters of former health minister George de Silva, were most sought after socialites of Bombay (now Mumbai) seven decades ago. And while Minnette was the favourite partner of renowned French architect Le Corbusier, her sister Anil de Silva was the assistant editor of Marg, the journal founded by the award-winning novelist Mulk Raj Anand.

The fictional biography titled Plastic Emotions, written by Shiromi Pinto, br...