First Lankan director to win Best Director Award

Since the 1960s, no Asian Director has won a ‘Best Director’ Award at an International Film Festival.Now, Chandran Rutnam stands up with the only other South-East Asian Director, Satyajit Ray, who won the Best Director Award, at the Auckland International Film Festival for his film. “The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha” in 1969.

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Encounters

The poetic universe of Pablo Neruda

Continued from last week

Speaking of this volume of poetry, remarked that, ‘Ten years of lonely work, ten years that make up exactly half my life, having brought to my writing different rhythms, opposing literary styles. By fusing all of this, by weaving different styles,

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Cultural scene

Digital legacy of Sinhala songs

In this week’s column, we examine the pivotal role of a Sri Lankan domiciled in Australia, Nalin Jayawardene, who is an active member of Sri Lankan cultural diaspora, plays in preserving, promoting and providing a platform of Sri Lankans in the digital legacy of the humanity.

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