In our midst, right now, are two Aussie-Sri Lankan artistes, while in Australia, some of our big names are still, in that part of the world, keeping the Aussie-Sri Lankans entertained In Colombo, we have Roger Menezes, now based in Sydney, and Cherrie Chamari, from Melbourne. While Cherrie is here to put together a music […]
By Uditha Devapriya In Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka (University of California Press, 2017), Garrett Field emphasises the role that radio played in disseminating and elevating musical standards in the newly independent colonies of South Asia. The 1950s, when this process played itself out, was a period in which […]
by Imitiaz Bakeer Markar I first met Dudley Senanayake in 1970. Despite the effects of the colossal defeat of the so-called National Government he led still prevailing, I met him at Woodlands along with a group of students from Ananda College, Colombo. In that era there were students of Ananda who attended classes conducted by […]