Enriching Sinhalese lexicon on psychology
A seminal contribution that a dictionary of
psychology, particularly an English-Sinhala one, would make is that
it will enrich the existing Sinhalese lexicon on Psychology. The
Dictionary of Psychology (English –Sinhala) or Manovidya Shabda
Koshaya (Engrisi-Sinhala) by Nandalal Malagoda, to a greater degree,
fulfils a long –felt need for a comprehensive Sinhalese dictionary
of psychology.
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Contemporary Painters
Anura excels in drawing picture stories
A picture, it is often said, is worth a thousand
words. It captures the mood, the event and the subject with such
vividness so as to explore and expose the trait of an artist. Anura
Wijewardena a painter excels in the art of picture story
illustrations. He is comparatively not interested in international
art movements.
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Cultural scene
The unity of heterogeneity
Continuing the series on Jack Derrida’s Of
Grammatology, in this week’s column we examine another chapter
leading to Derrida’s seminal argument of his thesis de-construction.
What Derrida attempts is to deconstruct the entire philosophical
development of the Western history from the Greek philosophy to the
present.
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