The making of a writer

Recently, my novel, Untouchable Woman’s Odyssey was featured in the Toronto-based website www.MyBindi serving the wider South Asian community. Invited to be interviewed via a questionnaire, what appears in the published interview is an edited version. Below I produce the full answer to one of the questions in the thought that perhaps it may be of some interest and value for budding authors.

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Contemporary painters

Kalapathi Vasantha Rathnayake :

Beauty of nature enriches his creations

An academic painter who is able to express himself well, with a complete understanding of its possibilities and limitations is a very rare person and a fortunate one. Such a painter is Kalapathi Vasantha Rathnayake. He hails from Maho in the district of Kurunegala.

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Cultural scene

Text as a fabric of signs

In the previous column on ‘Of Grammatology’, we concluded with an observation by David Potts who said that ‘The closure’ (or bounds) of the logocentric epoch lies in the recognition of this radical incoherence: the concepts of being, truth, sense, logos, and so forth, cannot be made good within the logocentric framework.

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