The Outsiders

In 1978, I was assigned by Lake House, to cover the horrible cyclone which devastated most of Eastern Sri Lanka, for the Sunday Observer and the Daily News. I was accompanied by Udaya Manawasinghe of the Silumina and chief photographer Banduwardena. As food was scarce in the Eastern Province we carried with us about 20 loaves of bread and a few tins of canned fish. We left on a Friday evening, driven by a senior driver whose name does not now come to my mind. The car was a new twin carburetor Volkswagen beetle which was quite powerful.

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CLARKE: Strong poetry volumes launched by South Asian-Canadian writers

Piepzna-Samarasinha, Peerbaye offer powerful language, varied voices. March is International Women’s Month — or should be. Let us read Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Soraya Peerbaye, two South Asian-Canadian poets who are fine in different ways.

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THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING!!!

Erik Solheim’s Book Politics are to will launched on March 5, 2013, had a dearth of facts or substance and was rather hollow for my taste. If anything was to be gained by it, was the ‘DATES’ of some specific historical moments. But as to; how and why the ‘peace facilitation’ went haywire, remains unanswered and blurred. That is if one disregards Solheim’s off the cuff accusations of, Thorbjørn Jagland which is for the most part unsubstantiated claptrap.

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