A WORLD WITHOUT STRANGERS

I have seen many things, heard many things, touched things and some untouched but have kept trying to touch. There is a world that’s completely unknown to me. Many adventures and lessons to learn are yet to come. But something is confusing. Is it that certain societies are strange to us or is it that we are not known to people? At times I feel that we know the world but it’s just that we have not attempted to reach the lives of people. We are bound...

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ARE APPLES SMARTER THAN JELLYBEAN OR BETTER THAN GINGERBREAD ?

The Gadol baage or half-a-brick is hardly seen today.  Indeed, those of the younger generation might not know what the term means.  They might be shocked to know that it was used to refer to mobile phones, on account of size and shape.  Those times where everything was too big to hold is over. Even the world is contacting to the point that today we call it a “global village” because somebody in the USA can visit Asia within a matter of hours or someone flying thousands of miles high in an airplane could let his family...

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RUN FOR THEIR LIVES 2013

“Dana” or giving is not a new thing to any SriLankan. We are born genial and hospitable that we never step back or think twice when comes to helping others. That is the true “SriLankaness”. The calendars of academic institutions, business entities and even of an average household are significantly dedicated for charity, volunteer projects or any kind of giving. There is no better exercise to heart than reaching down and lifting people up. We are glad to see the eagerness within people for such activities today. But one thing, the most you do for...

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DECEMBER'S STORIES

I’m seated on the sandy shores with one of my favorite uncles. “Uncle Chandima “whom I use to call him. He was one of my aunt’s trusted associates, who was engaged in the delivery service at the Tangalle Post Office. Many evenings were spent soaking in the winter sun with Uncle Chandima. The skies turned crimson red with bright orange layers .The cries of the vendors along the beach, the merry songs and the children stories  are been heard and told. The December holidays are the perfect of all memories. The Tangalle beach was the most cherished...

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Sansara

The beams stretched, stretched along Lines parallel and straight Yet unsettled and unkempt  at times Like the words and deeds Devilish and venial The iron horse hammering another Creek! It cackles – Much irritation For those bumps and bends unceasing high and low Like good inheritance And once a bad kinsmen In the long, long “SANSARA” there we move. Like mist that sweeps the soot disguised in black,...

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THE SUN NEVER SET

“And water'd heaven with their tears  Did he smile his work to see  Did he who make the lamb make thee" Blake's tiger is a divine creature. A creation of a natural world therefore. The tiger's mystic beauty implies the benevolent aspect while it's evil behavior signifies the bad. Blake's awe through out the lines for which " that god once created the good and the bad another time "  voices something striking. Doesn't it tell us something about this world ? the men who live in it ? The British Empire was the history's largest...

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A FAR CRY FROM AFRICA

Africa was the tongue he loved. He couldn't resist the gorilla wrestling with the superman. How would have he turned from Africa and live? In a white dust of ibises whose cries have wheeled since civilizations, Africa is still a wonder, a rainbow nation that stretches 1000 miles from the Namib dessert to the impressive Cango caves and the Serengeti known as “endless plains” - a paradise for many wild beasts. Would have he ever dreamt of seeing corpses scattered in such a paradise? His death remembered me of Bob Marley, whom I loved for his...

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YOU'LL BE NEVER MISSED

 It was the 12th of February 2010, just few days before the annual sports meet in the school. I was called out to represent the under  18 long jump event from my house. It was after four or five years that I started playing field events again. Haven’t had any practices until then. The fourth jump I made was quite fatal. My leg got twisted and I couldn't walk. So Githmi came all the way to take me up to the class. What hit me that moment was a way to survive the next few hours in school without been in class. I no longer wanted to hear...

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"PITAKOTUWA" ( PETTAH)

The sky gone feeble and dim  though the usual sun burns bright I see outside the blurred window next to a tall building -once I look straight, behind a round shaped tower- the second I look down Is he kidding me? I move to and fro trying to catch a glimpse, the bus slows down..and I walk out along the narrow pavement dampened by the night's showers mud pools surrounded like guards chuck! chuck !as I jump on them ouch! the trousers wet! stinking vegetable trolleys, broken tins and bottles  empty cans and rotten dregs loathing...

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BEHOLD ! THEE STRANGER

The dark night rises no where the dim lit moon to be seen, there goes the rustling sounds of leaves very unusual much sinister, and the howl of a dog far by the street dreadful an deadly.... neither eyes nor my mind fix'd elsewhere faintly as I move I wonder , am I dreaming? behold ! thee stranger thy eyes gleaming red whelmed with vexation as thy move faster with squeezed teeth thy arms around mine neck clenched the dagger - acute and deep cuts through the arteries  oh poisoned ! oh poisoned !...

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Jaffna ; a hope or despair?

From Colombo to Anuradhapura, then Vavuniya passing Madawachchiya and to few iconic towns like Omanthai, Killinochchi, Arali Point and the stunning arid view of Elephant Pass, a moment of beauty that one could never think of. Just wondered “how cruel they were to kill such picturesqueness”. Trees still with bomb scars , “Thal”  standing with much elegance , a true symbol of the north but  leaves burnt and  houses destroyed , yes it was  quite astonishing to these eyes! . These places were just heard in television until that...

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What Darwin never knew

( A Few months back a friend of mine who is studying Biotechnology at a University in Canada arrived to SriLanka. My meetings with him happened to be truly a “science week”. Few of the Zoology books and medical books he carried  made me really curious about Darwin and his theories. What I read , learnt and heard  from him inspired me to write this ) The world’s many treasures are hidden and mysterious. The more it is Delphic the more we are in thirst to find it. The creation of the earth is still a baffling question for many...

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"CROOKED EARTHS" they said hence they cannot dance

SriLanka, a free, sovereign and an independent republic is truly a legend. A legendary that voices rich history that goes deep down to more than 2500 years, consisting of a diverse culture embraced with fine arts. Its recorded history speaks of   a culture founded and established by the South Indians along with the arrival of Prince Vijaya. She reveals a great Buddhist heritage as a result of Sinhalese being under the benevolent influence of Arahat Mahinda. Incidentally being a colony under Portuguese, the Dutch and the British, it...

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A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN

He puts his head down on to the pillow and eyes gently closed , in an attempt to forget the bygones , a moment of rest . He envisions a film strip , rather unmatched scenes. Tick - tock - tick - tock the clock goes and screams out at six in the morning. He springs out from the bed , runs for a wash , get himself dressed and drives fast as possible to office , gulping a big burgher along with. Entrapped in payrolls , collections , counts , direct calls , messages , sort and file records he drives back home annoyed and distressed. This is a very...

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