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Adding Meaning to Dance
Venuri Perera
The first time I see Venuri Perera, she's the centre of attraction at a party in Central London, dancing with the grace and poise of someone who has a bit more than the standard 53 moves of the very best, average dancers. Not least because there's such a heady combination of grace, natural beauty and a seemingly total lack of ego or image. Which is surprising given the kudos she’s been earning at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival over the past few years; part of the reason is the fact that she is not...
A writer of many facets...
Sri Lanka's Mr. Rock n Roll
In 1944, less than a year before the Second World War ended, a novel was published that was to change the course of Sinhala fiction forever. It opens with a passage evoking an unmistakable sense of time and place. "The village of Koggala occupies a long stretch of land bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a wide river of enchanting beauty, the Koggala Oya. A smooth black ribbon of road linking the Southern towns of Galle and Matara separates the village from the sea....
Nalin Perera looks like bad poetry gone right, with the rock and roll hair and raspy voice. He’s checking the sounds; clicking away wildly and settling on a wicked smile to indicate that he’s happy with everything. The phone is ringing off the hook.Nalin’s quite a wee fella. No more than 5 and a bit tall. But when he speaks his voice just travels. It’s not a baritone in any sense or a deep rumbling kind of voice. Instead there’s a very rich texture to it. Hard to describe....
The Colombo Chetties of Sri Lanka
The Colombo Chetties form an integral part of Sri Lankan society. They are a separate ethnic...
Spin Kills
New Delhi based novelist and cricket historian Mukul Kesavan on how an illustrious Indian batting...
Regional Relevance
This battered harbor town on Sri Lanka's southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier...
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