US university honours Lankan literary luminary

Sri Lanka’s annals of literature hold an indelible pedestal for the name of Jean Solomons Arasanayagam. A prolific poet and prose writer of ingenuity, her impressive body of work to date has earned her much recognition as a voice whose craft as a writer reflects rather significantly the ‘spirit of the age’ in which her artistry in words takes shape.

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Encounters

The enigmatic Kafka and his continuing influence

[Part 2]

What I have done so far, in my earlier columns on Kafka, is to present a broad picture of the man and his work with a view to displaying his uniqueness. What I wish to do now is to re-capture very briefly some of the dominant approaches to his writings advocated by diverse commentators and critics.

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Tchaikovsky’s winter daydreams in autumn

There is no doubt that one thing Britons do brilliantly is to perform classical music. The rush to get to their seats tonight was one mad scramble in which I too got pushed along until I reached my seat at the Royal Albert Hall, the pristigious, most popular and revered theatre in Britain.

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