Acrylics on Paper
ArtSpace This painting is by twelve year old Dineth Hettiarachchi. He’s a budding young artist having been painting and drawing almost since the time he could hold a brush or a crayon 🖍😍.
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From a Vintage Sri Lankan Cook Book
By Sharmini Jayawardena Last week, I suddenly remembered my mother’s friend and colleague at Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, India, whom she used to speak of. My Mother* I also remember having a taste of food prepared by her, at a friend’s spend-the-day, birthday party, for which they had got …
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Unveiling my Macrame
ArtSpace By Sharmini Jayawardena …though yet to be completed! Guess it’s always the case with creative pursuits that one never completes but keeps adding as and when one feels the need to 😀😃😄. Current technology I’m afraid, affording you every freedom do so ☺️. I have a fair idea of …
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Those days of Fever 🤒 🥵 and being treated like Royalty 👑
By Sharmini Jayawardena You wouldn’t believe it but there were times when a fever was treated like the flu 😷 🤒 🤧 and you were treated like special people. By special I don’t mean what it is referred to as lately – mentally incapacitated. Well, that too, we may have …
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My Fave Sport being Extreme Sports
By Sharmini Jayawardena Hi All, today, I thought I’d share something I have had tucked away under my belt for some time. Yes! You got it! My favourite sport is extreme in nature 😁 Every type of extreme sport, which drives your adrenaline, to a max! Ok. Let’s not say …
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Somebodies Who Were Ignored by Nobodies
By Sharmini Jayawardena Illustration: Casey Chin This comes as a pun on Kumari Jayawardena’s research thesis titled Nobodies to Somebodies, setting forth to understand the real story behind particularly the Durava caste, and other neutralized or even trivialized castes of Sri Lanka. I have not read the book. But, having …
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The Sicko Attitude of the ‘Fourth Estate’! And…
How far have WeThePeople come By Sharmini Jayawardena Yes! There was a time when the newspaper industry and journalism was referred to as the fourth estate, and very rightly so. But, alas, it is obviously not to be so today. There was a time when services were what we did …
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DATUK SERI NAJIB TUN RAZAK FOR MALAYSIA‘S FUTURE, NOW
In the Spotlight DATUK SERI NAJIB TUN RAZAK FOR MALAYSIA‘S FUTURE, NOW.
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Tissa Ranasinghe, The True Kalyana Mithra*
In the Spotlight *Kalyana Mithra By Sharmini Jayawardena It was only yesterday that I mustered enough courage to search Tissa Ranasinghe, Sri Lanka’s sculptor of great repute, on the Internet. I searched the Internet not wanting to see what I might, having heard that Noeline Fernando*, Sri Lankan painter and …
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