Somachandre Wijesuriya’s “First Rising”

The Critique of the Post-colonial Nation in Somachandre Wijesuriya's "First Rising" By Vihanga Perera First Rising (2001) is the first and only novel by Somachandre Wijesuriya who passed away a few years ago. Set in a village bordering the tea estates in the Kegalle district of Sri Lanka’s lower highlands, the novel attempts a critique...

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...