The Buddha through modern literary eyes

British author, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses was regarded as blasphemous and raised ire in the Islamic world. A fatwa condemning the author to death was issued by the Iranian spiritual leader in 1989.The furore brings to mind the treatment of the Buddha in two works of fiction, one originally written by a Swiss writer and translated into English, and the other in Sinhala in Sri Lanka.

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Contemporary painters

Don Renuka Ranjaya:

Capturing nature’s glory with watercolours

Renuka Ranjaya’s persistent passion for painting was due to his environment at home. He hails from a family of artists. His father and brother were reputed artists. Don stphen Raymond was one of the prominent artists for church murals and a sculptor. Renuka Ranjaya is a chip off the old block. He inherited the artistic skills from his father.

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Cultural scene

Science of writing

In this series on Jack Derrida’s Of Grammatology, we further examine Derrida’s thesis under the chapter ‘Linguistic and Grammatology’. In this chapter Derrida describes the relationship between linguistic and Grammatology.

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