Assessing Gorky’s observations of Tolstoy

Biographies and autobiographies are a much sought after genre of books when the subject is one who has been highly acclaimed, and reading them can be valued by the reader for reasons as diverse as inspiration to gaining insightful knowledge to possible ‘gossip value’.

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Contemporary Painters

Rich colours - fresh dimensions to nature

Born to a family of physicians, he saw the first light of the world on March 10, 1957. He is the son of the village ayurvedic physician. His father's dream was to see his son becoming an ayurvedic physician. But ayurveda proved a bitter pill to Ariyawansa Kumarasinghe which he refused to swallow.

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Cultural Scene

Seminal ideas of post-modernism

In this series of articles, we would examine one of the major texts of post-modernism and perhaps, the most influential of all, Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Derrida wrote Of Grammatology in 1967. It is one of three books and others are Speech and Phenomena (French: La voix et le phénomène) and Writing and Difference (French: L’écriture et la différence).

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