Prashantha Lal's favorite song

What more is needed where there is  rock-rib ,  tender heart and words in-genuine? Prashantha Lal de Alwis. Pic source : Internet Sing one must, even if one does not have the right pitch or one does not know the right note. The words will take you a long way, bathed by rain drop, over road, stone, monument, ripple water and everything. Song is a moment of joy. Most of the time. Song is memory. I have found.  I remember the early...

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There are buildings , and then us

Pic courtesy: www.visitcolombo.com Take a walk in Colpetty streets. Colpetty looks beautiful in the morning. Let it be 6.30 am. You will see a low fat sun tugged on to a faraway building. Bluish clouds moving fast. So soft. You will see the sky in pink with a few orange spots here and there. Look to your right and left. There’ll be buildings one after another. Neatly erected in a row. Be it a bank, a cloth shop, an apartment, a...

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Anuradhapura

Somewhere in mid- Aprilsky heats up,'nawa nagaraya' sweatsto the drought-heavy days. Every mile ahead -a drive to northto the other side is a spell of river,lap of water. Basawakkulamapainted in blue light and cloud patternhits the tank bund -so softwith a hushbreaks through ,and ripple dance in a historic beatsoil sucks , gently. Pic Source : Internet  Men flutter and drift in bare feetto the chant of pirithcircling the dagobaa...

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Elephants and the 'elephantness'

This is  the last article  I wrote for 'Jeans' in The Nation newspaper that was dedicated to kids. Let’s take simple stuff. The world is round. Agreed, because Copernicus said so. Water runs downhill. Agreed; that’s the natural order of things. Everyone thinks everyone knows everything.  We tend to believe what we see. We know why birds fly in flocks as sun dapples through a staunch of a Jambu tree. We know why dogs are chained....

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