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• Kassapa theory pooh-poohed
  Cave temple turns impregnable fortress

  by R.S.Karunaratne

  "Parricide Kassapa who took refuge at Sigiriya might have altered the palace to suit his purpose and fortified it against his enemies; and instead of erecting a magnificent palace to equal that of Kuvera, Sigiriya suffered considerably at Kassapa's hands during his occupation."

• Challenging forum

• On Books and Writers by Ajith Samaranayake
  Proficient in two genres

  This column opens with an old piece written in 1976 on R. R. Samarakoon for this same newspaper. Novelist and dramatist Samarakoon has recently broken a long silence with a novel titled "Thalamala". This article was written under the pseudonym "Asela".

• Translator as a surrogate mother

  by Sena Thoradeniya

  A perception common to all book publishers, readers and certain literary critics in Sri Lanka is that, literary translations rendered into Sinhala from various source languages, are very much in demand than the original writings of local writers. Various reasons are attributed to the "rise" of translations and the "decline" of the original work. In this article the writer will not discuss this matter any further since the data available to support or reject this proposition are not sufficient and it is beyond the scope of the present discussion.

• Sinhala cinema on slide

  by E.M.G. Edirisinghe

  Sinhala cinema is 56-years-old, 52 years younger to world cinema; yet, it appears to be prematurely staggering and stuttering. During this short span of life, it has made strides at various international film festivals. Among its outstanding films such works as Rekhawa, Gam Peraliya, Saroja, Eya Den Loku Lamayek, Pura Sanda Kaluwara, Thani Thatuwen Piyambanne and Punchi Suranganawi stand out earning a niche for Sinhala cinema in world cinema.

• Jayasiri Semage - Artist celebrating life

  By Kalakeerthi Edwin Ariyadasa

  Jayasiri Semage, the distinguished artist, lyricist, wielding the brush and the palette, has currently scaled the ordinary and has achieved a lofty peak that offers him a vantage point, to view the world and human life with a creative detachment. In a clear and uncluttered vision, he can calmly contemplate the tortuous path he had to tread, to gain the height he has now reached. As all significant personalities of the world of high art, he discerns, still more mountains to conquer, as the effort towards perfection never abates.

• Three cornerstones of local culture

  by Gamini G. Punchihewa

  Lanka, as it was called in the past, was ruled by kings and queens who were the heirs to a stupendous hydraulic heritage. Our ancient irrigation engineers not only built small, medium and even large reservoirs, but also built long excavated irrigation canals.

• A student's tributeThe dancer without a peer

  by Gwen Herat

  The peerless height of her immortal praise
  Whose lustre leads us, and for her most fit,
  If my inferior hands or voice could hit
  Inimitable sounds. Yet as we go,
  What'er the skill of lesser gods can show
  I will assay, her worth to celebrate,
  And so attend ye towards her glittering state
  Where you may all, that are of noble stem
  Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem'
  John Milton (from the Arcades)

• Treat film-making as business

  Filmologist Amarnath Jayatilaka is someone who calls a spade a spade. Having spent more than three decades to promote the local cinema, he takes a look back on the deteriorating facilities at film exhibiting centres around the country.

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