Philosophical and theological expounding of friendship

Only a person who could sustain and maintain great friendships could write adequately about friendship. This book is, to a greater extent, a collaborative effort which is born out of a friendship in philosophical apprenticeship between Fr. Ajith Wellington, OMI and Fr. Richard Wolak, OMI. A friendship has finally and filially given birth to this book and in reciprocity,

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Contemporary Painters

S.D.A. Dissanayake:

Painting with bright colours

Galle Road from Colombo to Galle forms an almost continuous avenue through overarching coconut palms, with frequent glimpses of the Indian Ocean on one side, and the railway line, along which we reach Kalutara where the 129 km long Kalu Ganga flows giving the impression of a powerful river.

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Cultural Scene

Strange privilege of sound in idealisation

In the series on ‘Of Grammatology’, this week’s column further examines the seminal ideas of Derrida. We concluded the last week’s column citing Potts who points out that “ the concepts of being, truth, sense, logos, and so forth, cannot be made good within the logocentric framework.

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