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.

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...
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...
26 June 2026

සැබෑ සුදුසුකම් නොහොත් සහතික ඇත්ත

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අතීතයේ, කඩදාසි නොතිබූ හෝ තිබුණත් ඒවා ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් සාහිත්‍ය කටයුතු සඳහා පමණක් භාවිත කළ යුගයක, අධිකාරී බලය පිළිගැනීමට ලක්වූයේ වෙනත් ක්‍රමවලි...

Rukshan Perera: for the love of music and all things wholesome

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I first met Rukshan during the covid pandemic. Our mutual friend and philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran funded a building for the nursing st...
17 June 2026

Umble Pie Days in Washington and Tel Aviv

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  Trees have roots. Rivers have sources. So too, phrases. Just the other day, reflecting on the before and continuing ‘after’ of the illeg...
14 June 2026

That Scoundrel Krishantha Cooray

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  There’s a social media post doing the rounds about Krishantha Cooray. Posted by some individual named Sachin Rathwatte, it is indeed a c...
12 June 2026

වගකීම යනු බෝම්බයකි, මහා සාගරයකි

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  අභාවප්‍රාප්ත ලක්දාස වික්‍රමසිංහයන්ට අනුව කවියා යනු නගරයට බෝම්බයක් දමා, පසුව ඒ පිළිබඳ සටහන් තබාගන්නා අයෙකි. ඔහුගේ ‘ද පෝයට්’ (The Poet) නැමැ...
10 June 2026

When falconers lose their voices

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  Chinua Achabe attributed the title of his celebrated novel, ‘Things fall apart’ to a line from W B Yeats’ ‘The Second Coming.’   Turning a...
31 May 2026

දියුණුවේ plus, minus සහ equal ලක්ෂණ

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  "ඔබට දියුණු වීමට අවශ්‍යද? පුද්ගලයන් තිදෙනෙකු සොයා ගන්න. 1) PLUS - ඔබට ඉගෙන ගත හැකි, ඔබට වඩා දැනුම සහ අත්දැකීම් ඇති අයෙක්. 2)  MINUS -...
29 May 2026

Honourable Peeker

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[Review of Udayasiri Wickramaratne’s ‘Garu Kataanaayakathumani’ by Malinda Seneviratne] The Sinhala equivalent of ‘Honourable Speaker’ is ‘ ...
27 May 2026

Sacred facts and free commentary

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A tribute to D B S Jeyaraj    More than twenty years ago, I had the opportunity to speak a few words with the late Prof Carlo Fonseka. He ...
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