A celebration of theatre

Apart from these evening productions, the theme of the conference at Ninasam, ‘Living with traditions’, saw the glitterati and intellectuals descend to this small but culturally vibrant space, to explore and debate of various layers of tradition. The stories from the Ramayana took centre stage and raised as many animated discussion as its interpretations.

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Encounters

Amarasekera and the art of complex seeing

The latest collection of short stories by Gunadasa Aarasekera, ‘Kiyanu Mana Divi Arutha’ constitutes a remarkable effort both in terns of content and technique. It consists of five stories of varying length and many of them test the limit of the short story form in challenging ways.

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Beethoven’s portraiture, the timeless model

How many followers or disciples are aware of the magnitude of Beethoven's iconography? We all know him as the immortal Romantic that sailed over the world of classical music. There was never one like him and never will there be one to knock him off the pedestal.

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