A Deep Understanding of the Conventions: Essential for all Creative Practice — Tanya Ekanayaka.

Tanya Ekanayaka - composer-pianist, producer, musicologist, linguist - shares her views on a few peripheral aspects of music and literary culture in Sri Lanka, including curriculum, support systems and the room for experiment and expansion. Part-time faculty at the University of Edinburgh, Tanya is an internationally featured composer-pianist and record producer contracted with  Naxos Records. She...

“I believe that ethnic division is like a house division in schools and nothing more.” – Ayathurai Santhan.

Recent awardee of the Premchand Fellowship 2017 by the Sahithya Akademi of India, Jaffna-resident writer in Tamil and English Ayathurai Santhan shares a few ideas on literature, reconciliation and the way forward as a single country. He states that reports by some Southern media claiming terrorism is on a come back cannot be true and...

Re-imagining An Island’s Past by Needling Through the Cement of Dominant History – Sunela Jayewardene, author of “The Line of Lanka”.

Sunela Jayewardene is recognised as Sri Lanka’s leading environmental architect. She has designed award-winning hotels including Jetwing Vil Uyana, Colombo Courtyard and Rainforest Ecolodge. Following the release of her first book, The Line of Lanka, which was nominated for the 2017 Gratiaen prize, she has also become a respected writer. The reader journeys with Sunela as...

GRAVITY POINT: Amanda Jay, Author of ‘The Other One’.

'Mandy' and 'Midas' were not too apart from one another as Amanda Jay (Mandy in some forums) debuted with her novel The Other One which was also awarded the Fairway National Literary Award in January 2018. At the moment, Amanda Jay is a writer who has the focal point of the Lankan literary discourse trained...