A Cubic Narrative-Art: Raja Segar’s “Dialogue with Darkness”

A Cubic Narrative-Art: A Glimpse of Raja Segar’s Dialogue with Darkness: Erotic Autobiography of an Artist (Unedited) By Gayathri Madhurangi Hewagama Raja Segar is not a writer; at least, not in the conventional sense of the term. It is most accurate to call him a painter. As the book’s title itself claims, his text is...

“A Way of Life”: Punyakante Wijenaike’s Servants and Some Rural Women in Her Work.

The Raw Matter of Her "Rural" Women: Some Household Servants, and Punyakante Wijenaike's A Way of Life and The Waiting Earth. By Vihanga Perera In 1987, Punyakante Wijenaike published A Way of Life, a memoir. In this, the writer’s retrospective impressions and recollections are united in introducing a host of "household persons" from grandparents, parents,...

Leonard Woolf as a Judge in Ceylon.

The Inspiration for The Village in the Jungle: Woolf as Magistrate of Tissamaharama. Leonard Woolf as a Judge in Ceylon: A British Civil Servant as a Judge in the Hambantota District of Colonial Sri Lanka (1908 – 1911) by Prabath de Silva (Published 1996, revised edition 2016). Much has been written about Leonard Woolf’s life...

A Graphic Tale of Vanni.

. Dix and Pollock: A Graphic Tale of Vanni. Vanni: A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict, published in 2019, is the first graphic novel to emerge from Sri Lanka’s civil war which ended in 2009. It was a collaborated effort by Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock, and focuses on a family’s struggle for...

“Emergency ’58”: The Ceylon Race Riots.

Tarzie Vittachi's Emergency '58: The Ceylon Race Riots. “I do not know how to write with text-book discretion about the suffering we saw around us and the terror and hate on the faces of people we had known all our lives.” (p.9) The above, from its preface, sets the tone for Emergency 58. Written, according...