Review:
Intimacy in the world of High
Classicism
The Chamber Music Society of Colombo along with
the Goethe Institute in Colombo inaugurated an especially novel
series of concerts last Saturday, March 10. Titled, Chamber Music
Plus, this is probably the most informal you will ever encounter the
elitist CMSC outside their personal music rooms.
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The Dhammapada and the study of classical text
The root image of motion which lies at the heart
of what I term the first sub-discourse of the Dhammapada is
reinforced, and given nuanced evaluation, in manifold ways, as is
made clear in the following verses.
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Pioneer writers in Sinhala literature
In this week’s column, I would like, briefly, to
examine some of the pioneer writers in Sinhala literature and their
seminal contribution to the growth of Sinhala as a literary
language.
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