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By Bhanu Wijesinghe
Saho (Comrade), Prof. Ariyarathna Athugala’s latest creative endeavour, is a feature film based on his book of the same name that made waves recently by being accepted into the second round of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection of Feature Films.
Should it make it past the second round, that would make Saho one of the few Sri Lankan productions to ever make...
The Agency Sri Lanka, a Sri Lankan modelling agency, will be celebrating its fifth anniversary this year and as a part of the celebrations, plans to launch a digital calendar for 2021, titled Dynasty. Employing a Sri Lankan historical theme, the calendar takes inspiration from epic tales in the istorical texts, Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa and Chulavamsa but with an Avant-garde...
On November 28, Bede Anandappa celebrated his 100th birthday, becoming one of the privileged few to ever become a centenarian and one of good health at that. He shared with us his history and recalled the wealth of experiences he had accumulated over the past century, in an interview. Bede was very animated when talking and his family assured me that despite his age, his...
For a nation such as Sri Lanka, which is primarily a traditionalist country, the field of art evolves slowly. The modern art scene for us is in its infancy and is still not readily accepted or properly understood by the public. This has left many major mediums of art expressions developed by other cultures untapped. One such medium is the genre known as Performance art, a...
When speaking of art and culture, it is easy to dismiss it as superfluous excess that is a waste of time for a society that, in certain ways, has more important things yet to do. Even those who acknowledge its emotional value and historic importance disregard aesthetics as unproductive in comparison to more ‘productive’ pursuits like academics and even athletes. However,...
By Bhanu Wijesinghe
Just last week, Nike released a promotional ad campaign in Vietnam featuring Sri Lanka’s very own Lasith Malinga, along with...
A writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator and film and literary critic, Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran or K. S. Sivakumaran...
Religion, has and always will be, intrinsically linked to culture. Historically, this can be seen reflected in the ways that the...
Earlier this week, the Board of Sri Lanka Tourism made the announcement that by August 1, Sri Lanka will be open for tourism...
Face masks for personal protection have been in use globally for over a century but it is only now, when literally the entire...
Pick A Book (PAB) is an initiative driven by Epitom Digital which seeks to nurture and revitalise reading in community by not...
The internet was always meant for convenience, a tool to make communication and anything in relation to communication far easier...
As coronavirus cases continue to stack up and the nationwide curfew continues to be extended, employers have been forced to...
In a bid to contain and combat the global pandemic of coronavirus, the curfew imposed nationwide has effectively put most of the...
Traditional Chinese Martial Arts:
Traditional Chinese Martial arts or as it is more commonly known, Kung Fu, does not refer to any one martial art but to several...