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.

14 September 2026

Colombo Telegraph: the year 2011 and thereafter

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What was Sri Lanka like in the year 2011? That’s fifteen years ago. Long before ‘The Aragalaya,’ before the crisis that was the logical en...
10 September 2026

Mahendra Martin Raskolnikov

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Back in the day, Mahendra Martin Raskolnikov worked at Rupavahini. I believe he was an intern there. He was young, as was I. He was partia...
03 September 2026

Anuruddha Karnasuriya’s sloth

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Sunimal De Silva was my Grade 6 class teacher. That’s 50 years ago. It was a bad year for me in terms of studies, but then again one of ma...
02 September 2026

කපිල අයියට පිං සිද්ද වෙන්න ඕන

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  සාහිත්‍ය සම්මාන උළෙලකට, පොත් එළිදැක්වීමකට හෝ වෙනත් සාහිත්‍ය නැතහොත් ශාස්ත්‍රීය වැඩසටහනකට එන අය කොටස් තුනකට බෙදින්න පුළුවන්. එක, කතෘ ගේ නෑද...
27 August 2026

Sunil Ariyaratne in the then and now

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  More than forty years ago, in my first days at Dumbara Campus, University of Peradeniya, a senior whose name and face I no longer rememb...
21 August 2026

Her name is ‘Lanka’

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More than twenty years ago, the late Pundit W D Amaradeva, with great kindness and much indulgence, taught me what to students of music woul...
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A poet's obligation

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  ‘Poet’s obligation’ is the title of one of Pablo Neruda’s poems. Obligations are not laws; they speak more of ‘reethi’ or norms than ‘ne...
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13 August 2026

Looking for and missing Lakdasa Wikkramasinha

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    Some years ago I chanced upon the grave of Lakdasa Wikkramasinha, the English language poet whose iconic credentials draw from who was ...
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06 August 2026

O Religion, thou comest in many garbs!

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More than a decade ago the late Prof Nalin De Silva launched a book titled ‘ batahira vidyaava, aasanik saha deviyo (Western science, ars...
01 August 2026

The roads that lead to Anuradhapura

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  There can be many roads to lead to a place in an island that is located at a reasonable distance from the sea. A city as opposed to a vi...
26 July 2026

චෙක්මේට් නොවන TDR

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ලෙන්ගතු මිතුරෙකුගේ නමේ මුලකුරුවලින් කියැවෙන්නේ කුමක්දැයි තේරුම් ගැනීමට අඩසියවසකට ආසන්න කාලයක් ගතවීම සැබවින්ම පුදුමාකාරය. නමුත් යම් කෙනෙකුව හ...
24 July 2026

TDR cannot be checkmated

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  It is indeed strange when it takes almost half a century to realise what the initials of a dear friend’s name stands for. But then again...
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15 July 2026

Moments, just moments

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‘Moments, just moments,’ is what Serene Williams said ten years ago just after defeating her older sister Venus at the US Open quarterfina...
08 July 2026

Fire!

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  Fire burns. Destroys. It also offers warmth in very cold places and can be the difference between sure death and survival. It’s a mark o...
02 July 2026

Lumumba Vea lives for us all

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Sarath S De Silva’s ‘Kotuwa Pitakotuwa 1’ is a book I haven’t read. Vihanga Perera WhatsApped me the cover page and also a couple of pages...
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