Riveting two days of theatre
Thrice the curtain rises. Once on a cheerful
bureau that supplies husbands for ladies of all sorts, emphatically
of all sorts (the play ‘Husbands Supplied’); a second time on a
family reunion the reason for which is the thirty second birthday of
a brain-damaged and crippled brother who can hardly count his years
(the play ‘David’s Birthday’); and the third time on a greasy attic
of a house in which a little boy is punished for doing something
atrocious, an unspecified act, while downstairs is a family party
(the play ‘No Why?’).
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Contemporary painters
Kusum retains natural simplicity in her paintings
In the suburbs of Kandy lies a small town known
as Peradeniya. It is the location of the famous Botanical Gardens
and the most prestigious seat of learning in South East Asia,
Peradeniya University. The city is surrounded by the mountain range
of Hantana and the Mahaweli river flowing down, skirts a section of
its boundary in the shape of a horseshoe.
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Cultural scene of Grammatology Logic or logocentrism
In last week’s column, we concluded that Derrida
questions the well-established basis of ‘All Western intellectual
history’ which is based on logic or logocentrism. According to David
Potts, the second important fact that Derrida points out in Of
Grammatology is signs. Derrida under the sub-title ‘The End of the
Book and the Beginning of the Writing’ states; “However the topic is
considered, the problem of language has never been simply one
problem among others.
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