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.

11 March 2026

Of books and men and learning to play the game

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  First we rejoice in the achievements of our parents, relatives of their generation and their friends. Later we celebrate the victories o...
08 March 2026

Measured sweetness

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  [‘A Splash of Honey,’ by Christabelle Corea-Aturupane, published by BCONNECTED, 2025, reviewed by Malinda Seneviratne]   All lives are ep...

That Lass!

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  Jude Lucksiri Fernando is an old friend. When I entered campus, he was just moving out, but for a few months, i.e. before he got the res...
28 February 2026

In the name of 'The Father'

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  Portrait of Gamini Seneviratne, painted by the late Kulanatha Senadheera  Almost four years ago, not too long before Galle Face was re-nam...

For Sirajudin Mohamed Nishmi, wherever he may be

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  He was referred to as Nismi, although the name was Nishmi. Some may have used ‘sh’ instead of ’s’ but few, if any, knew his full name. S...
12 February 2026

To seek and cherish the land that isn't mine but ours

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    It’s a sociological and political term, this thing called ‘post-independence.’ There are books with titles that include the term. It i...
08 February 2026

Rebekah Pieris and her worlds made of fragments

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  'The Commons Cofffeehouse' down Flower Road is sometimes too busy a place to notice certain things. Quite apart from the comings...
04 February 2026

When Mahagama Sekera visited Sri Sānghikarāmaya

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  I am not sure if there was a dancing class in Grade 1 at Royal College. There was dancing in Grade 2. The dancing room was between two o...
29 January 2026

The blood of others that stain our minds

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  Stella Sanford, in her book ‘How to Read Beauvoir,’ contends that one of the main themes of Simone De Beauvoir’s ‘The Blood of Others’ i...
21 January 2026

Anjana Ariyarathna's time-travel machine

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  It is quite likely that there are people, even millions of them, who have never made paper boats. Or paper airplanes for that matter. No...
16 January 2026

Mahagama Sekera: the book of verse and the [glass of] wine

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  [published in the Daily News, January 15, 2025]  The late Pundit Amaradeva would frequently refer to his friend and collaborator, Mahagama...
15 January 2026

Rajitha Dissanayake and houses that are marked for burning

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Review of Rajitha Dissanayake's 'Ape Gedara Gini Thiyaida (Will they burn our house down)'     Rajitha Dissanayake’s plays are ...

'You are right, I may be wrong!’

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‘I may be wrong’ is a rule of thumb that’s probably among the least used rules of thumb. Indeed it is probably not even considered to be a...
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