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Third-generation Sri Lankan cinema pioneer Prasanna Vithanage on living through civil war, economic crisis, Ramayana tours & 2023 Kim Jiseok win for Malayalam film Paradise.
The Copper Tumbler & Donkeys in Mannar: ‘it is not narrative that we should abandon but chronology’’ – Kumar Shahani by Laleen Jayamanne Sumathy Sivamohan’s The Single Tumbler (2020) recalls, in memory-images, a central traumatic historical and personal event during the civil war (not often discussed), in the early 90s. It recollects the expulsion of thousands of Muslims […]
A Review by — Nandi Jasentuliyana, Former Deputy Director-General, United Nations. A panorama of seventy-five strikingly attractive nature photographs was exhibited at the UCLA Art Gallery on the Earth Day weekend, April 22-23. Visitors enjoyed discovering the tographers who brought their fascinating work all the way from Sri Lanka for this unique exhibition. With a […]
By Sarath Amunugama Excerpted from volume ii of his autobiography With the TULF losing support of the youth, politics in the northern peninsula took a violent turn. Frustrated by educational policies of the Government and no longer dependent on the South for employment they looked to militant activity in the Palestine Liberation Organisation as a […]
By Uditha Devapriya \Although the Colombo Film Society would become Asia’s oldest such group, Colombo lay a world or two away from the rest of Sri Lanka. The urban middle-classes encountered the best of regional and Western cinema before their counterparts in Bombay and Calcutta did, but they remained cut off from a vast multitude […]