Malinda Words

Words didn’t fall from the sky. They were coined. They contain histories. They are the landmark products of thought processes, the rest-signs of journeys. They move on, long after we die. They were something else centuries ago and they will be something else centuries from now as human being twist, turn, defined and redefine as appropriate to moment, place, culture and prerogative(s) at hand.

06 October 2025

Tanques, tanks and other misconceptions

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  This country, Sri Lanka, is littered with tanks. Tanks? Well, that’s the common English or rather Sri Lankan English translation of the ...

The wealth and poverty of Nalin De Silva

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  The More than twenty years ago, when I worked for the Sunday edition of ‘The Island,’ I would step into the editorial office of our sister...

Water is indeed land

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  A few weeks ago I wrote about land. The title was ‘The land that time should not make us forget.’ That article was concluded as follows: ‘...

Horton Plains in abundant illumination

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  Long before I learned thanks to social media that our country is far more beautiful than we thought it was and at a time when I hadn’t li...

The poetics of pillage

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  There’s no way around it. Richard will be remembered. He will be remembered and others will be forgotten or rather remain forgotten. Arun...

Of literature and ‘frotezts’

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  Lakdasa Wikkramasinha saw people with words as rebels or rather advocated a rebellious role for them. He wrote: The poet is the bomb in th...

Aadaraneeya Janaki

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  There's an old poem, one prescribed in the AL English Literature syllabus many, many decades ago, that came to mind a few days ago. I...

The abandoning of Colombo

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  I live between Piliyandala and Kottawa. Since my daughters attended a Colombo school and since I worked in Colombo in the rare occasions...

The haughty and the toady

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‘The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida’ is among the less talked of plays by William Shakespeare. Set at Troy during the Trojan War, the pl...

The land that time should not make us forget

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  Sometime in the late seventies or maybe in the early eighties I watched with considerable fascination a film titled ‘The land that time ...

The noise before defeat

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  I know of a highly talented young musician who was also quite intelligent but would on occasion say something ridiculous, even bordering...

Of thrones and heirs

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  The Buddha elaborates on five subjects for contemplation or regular reviewing in the Abhiṇhapaccavekkhitabbaṭhānasutta (ref: Pañcakanipāt...

Landscapes are stories

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  Landscapes have their own moods, feelings and expressions, says Kasun De Silva. He attributed this insight to the photography of Nihal F...

Learning and imperishability

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  In the main hall of Royal College, under photographs of famous alumni, there are ‘quotable quotes’ neatly etched on long wooden panels. ...
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