by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 19, 2024 | Literary
New Year’s Day, Sri Lanka 2022 Vivimarie VanderPoorten My first ganudenuwa[i]This Sinhala and Hindu New yearwas with a hungry manwho rang the doorbellwith his elbowat the auspicious hour formoney transactions.He had had his fingerschopped offand stuck his hands...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 9, 2023 | Literary
A Voice from Palestine M. A. Nuhman [Israeli defence minister says: ‘‘We are fighting with human animals” and prime minister Netanyahu says in his address to the nation: ‘‘Israel is fighting with the enemies of civilization … This war is between the forces of...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 27, 2022 | Literary
Untitled ‘Chitra’ The bedMade from wood of a tree, nurtured in the Vanni forestThe tree bears fruits, yellow, plump, small and sticky, very sweetHoney–filled flowers The old carpenter carved its legs and drew motifsThe sweet aroma and taste stem from the bed mixed...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 28, 2022 | Literary
A Feast of Words Minoli Salgado for Sandya Ekneligoda The writers were at the table, eating each other’s words. Delicate morsels of sliced crime, tangy segments of romance, silver spoonerisms washed down with a glass of iced humour that turned the lips green. ‘How...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Aug 17, 2021 | Literary
Maligawatte, 2020 Vivimarie Vanderpoorten Three women have been trampled to death during a stampede for an $8 cash handout in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo amid growing desperation among Sri Lankans struggling to make ends meet during a coronavirus lockdown – News item...
