Prof. Kulathilaka Kumarasinghe has taken a giant step in making the Short Story known to the wider English speaking world by compiling this anthology. He was able to present few writers who ...

I write to complement Mr. Sangadasa Akurugoda’s essay “Why get rid of our linguistic heritage, and move back to English?” in ‘The Island’ of 8th February 2021. This is nothing to get excited about. It ...

When Sri Lankan author Anuk Arudpragasam recently received the DSC Prize for South Asian literature, the honour shone the international spotlight on the country’s gruesome civil war, yet again. Except ...

It's a unique happening in the history of modern Sinhala literature. The initiative taken by the Martin Wickramasinghe Trust in recording the life of the most outstanding Sri Lankan literary figure of ...

Sinhala script had derived from Brahmi script that had given rise to almost all North and South Indian Scripts. In the older tradition, Brahmi has been classified into two subgroups namely Northern ...

A plaque erected to mark the opening of a new electronic library at the Attorney General’s Department was removed because the writing thereon was only in Sinhala and English, and Tamil had been left ...

Rathika, who was in the LTTE barely for nine months during 2008-2009 after having been forcibly recruited, says she chose to write her experiences while she was undergoing treatment at a Colombo ...

When writing for the BBC it is important to be impartial. A listener should not feel that the presenter is being partial. The writing has to be clear and easily understood. Many people rely on us for ...

It is extremely important to write very clearly when you write for radio because people only hear the broadcast once. If we write complicated sentences and use difficult words, we might lose some of ...