Digitally-preserved Sinhala songs
One of the salient contributions that Nalin
Jayawardena made over the years is creating a formidable corpus of
digitally-preserved Sinhala songs with universal accessibility in
the World Wide Web. He is also a much-needed helping hand for
aspiring newcomers in the field of music not only from Sri Lanka but
also from diverse parts of the globe.
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Encounters
Amitav Ghosh’s tangled paths of modernity
He rejects the notion that modernity needs to be
understood as a universal phenomenon where less developed countries
seek to mimic the paths trodden by more developed countries. He
rejects the evolutionary model of modernity and argues that
modernity needs to be understood in terms of specific historical
conjunctures,
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Cultural Scene
Ulysses, allegorising myth to reality
Ulysses by James Joyce is a popular novel of the
20th century which is famous, among other things, for Joyce’s
innovations in language and style. However, a salient characteristic
of the novel is that it has extensively used myths to reflect upon
reality.
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