The Moonemalle Inheritance:
Social history analysis through ancestry
Writing a family history is a formidable
undertaking. When Rajiva asked me to say a few words on the occasion
of the launching of his book, I am amazed now at the light-hearted
way in which I accepted his invitation. I was recalling, I think,
the playful spirit in which I started writing a book about my own
family in 1980,
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Contemporary Painters
Kokila Wijesundera: Paintings of brilliant colours
Kokila Wijesundera hails from a beautiful
village, Galpotthayaya in Giruwa Patthuwa. The village is covered
with rich fields and terraces and a wilderness. It is in this
village that Kokila Wijesundera was born on February 19, 1976. He
completed his education at the Madaya Maha Vidyalaya, Tangalle.
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Cultural scene
Age of the sign essentially theological
In the previous column on Of Grammatology, I
concluded by citing Derrida’s remarks that ‘the age of the sign is
essentially theological’. Although ‘its historical closure is
outlined’, it ‘perhaps, will, never end’. In this column, I examine
the significance of ‘sign’ to the central argument of the thesis in
‘Of Grammatology’.
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