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By Lynn Ockersz As the world looked on aghast, They worked with ruthless efficiency, They stoned him, Lynched him, And set him ablaze, Leaving little trace of their victim; There was no fumbling, no hesitation, It was as if their work was cut out, And no matters of the heart, Could come in-between; They acted […]
Ronit Ricci, Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon. Colombo: Tambapanni Academic Publishers, 2021 (First published by Cambridge University Press in 2019) Reviewed by Nira Wickramasinghe Leiden University At different moments in time, Sri Lanka was known by different names, Serendib for the Arabs, Lanka in the Ramayana and other chronicles […]
Closer Connections among Different Branches of Human Knowledge: by Liyanage Amarakeerthi (A shortened version of a plenary speech given by Prof. Amarakeerthi at the International Conference of Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka, on 03 December) Every year I teach a course in aesthetics and non-linguistic arts. In that, I discuss what we ‘get’ from visual art […]
By Lynn Ockersz It’s ‘Darkness at Noon’; A swelling cloud broods over the power grid, Once swanky techno things lose their fizz, Amid loud protests reaching fever pitch, And placard-wielders widening into a sea of heads, But the city’s little bookshops are open for business; Cool nooks are they in a sweltering concrete jungle, Their […]
THE foundation of the United States of America was disastrous for the Tobacco Lords of Glasgow, some of whom lost their plantations in the new country, but it forced the city fathers to address the issue of the lack of manufacturing capacity in and around Glasgow. There was a wide variety of products made in Glasgow just before the American Revolution which showed the change that was occurring in the city over the space of 30 years. Alexander ‘Jupiter’ Carlyle wrote in his famous memoirs that in the year 1744: “There were not manufacturers sufficient,” either there or at Paisley...