Sepalika is the name of a flower. It also evokes songs by Srilankan singers Karunarathna Divulgane and Jayasiri Amarasekara.

When Sri Lankan author Anuk Arudpragasam recently received the DSC Prize for South Asian literature, the honour shone the international spotlight on the country’s gruesome civil war, yet again. Except ...

Dr. Harshana Rambukwella, Director, Post Graduate Institute of English, Open University, Sri Lanka and Honorary Assistant Professor, School of English, University of Hong Kong will launch his book ...

Every year, we ‘celebrate’ a Literary month in September. We have an “International Book fair” without any International publishers or even publishers, from the neighbouring countries, participating.

The then Minister of State, Anandatissa De Alwis’ address at the Inaugural Presentation of the D.R. Wijewardene Award for Sinhala writing in 1985. I consider this an opportunity to pay the sincerest ...

September is the Literary Month – the month when activities to promote literature and the reading habit are held. The State Literary Festival and the International Book Fair are the two biggest events ...

Rathika, who was in the LTTE barely for nine months during 2008-2009 after having been forcibly recruited, says she chose to write her experiences while she was undergoing treatment at a Colombo ...

It is extremely important to write very clearly when you write for radio because people only hear the broadcast once. If we write complicated sentences and use difficult words, we might lose some of ...

When writing for the BBC it is important to be impartial. A listener should not feel that the presenter is being partial. The writing has to be clear and easily understood. Many people rely on us for ...

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(Text of the speech delivered at a Panel Discussion held at Svami Vivekanda Cultural Center in Colombo, on January 12, 2024 to commemorate Mahagama Sekera. Sekera was an influential a poet, a novelist ...