Revisiting Panibharatha’s artistic legacy

Dr. Kalasoori Panibharatha’s contribution to the preservation and improves traditional art forms such as Up-Country and Sabaragamuwa dance traditions to the status of modern art should be assessed against the backdrop of vanishing traditions of arts at his time, towards the tail end of the colonialism in Sri Lanka.

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Amitav Ghosh’s tangled paths of modernity

So far, I have been discussing the nature and significance of Amitav Ghosh as a writer and his recognisable strengths and weaknesses. What I wish to do now is to examine possible ways in which we in Sri Lanka - both writers and readers - can draw important lessons from his creative and interpretive efforts.

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Ricky Deen and absurd cinema

The preview of the short film Adventure of Ricky Deen by New York trained Sri Lankan filmmaker Boodee Keerthisena at the Goethe-Institute in Colombo, turned out to be a multi-coded short film with a fine mixture of diverse genres. At a superficial level and in terms of thematising,

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