Signifiers and significance

Writing since the 70s, Jean Arasanayagam is perhaps the most prolific among the senior Lankan English writers, widely read locally and still published often beyond our shores. Speaking to the Montage recently, Arasanayagam voiced her concerns to do with some of her more recent work, while commenting on influences that made her a poet years back.

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Contemporary painters

Sathsara Ilangasinha:

Sufferings of mankind dominate his paintings

The varied route through palm trees, the past glory hidden in the dense greenery leads to the historic capital city Anuradhapura. This secret city spans an area of 16 square miles (40 Sqkm) which covers the district of Maha Iluppallama where lay a remote village, Senapura.

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Cultural Scene

Revisiting Achebe’s literary legacy

In this week’s column, we explore the literary legacy of Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet and academic against the backdrop of flourishing Anglophone literature in Africa. It is obvious that the major themes and motifs of his novels in general and his masterpiece Things Fall Apart,

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