This review was originally published by Naina Bajekal writing for TIME Magazine Partway through Anuradha Roy’s All the Lives We Never Lived, the German artist Walter Spies makes the case for simply enjoying life in India amid the global upheaval of the 1930s. “We are oceans away from all that,” he… Read More »All The Lives We Never Lived: Review by TIME Magazine
Renowned Anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere’s vivid portrait of the Kandyan Kingdom, The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom, and a collection of letters by C. Suntharalingam, member of independent Ceylon’s first cabinet of Ministers, Grandfather’s Letters. Both are valuable insights into major chapters in the history of Sri Lanka. Now available… Read More »Two books that detail important chapters in Sri Lanka’s history
This review was originally published on Kirkus Reviews Strict traditions face encroaching modernity in this memoir of a Muslim girl. The author was a jeweler’s daughter in Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, in the community of Galle Fort—at first blush, a traditional Muslim neighborhood. But in the 1950s, things… Read More »Stay, Daughter – Review on Kirkus Reviews
Voices of Peace, a collection of narratives of soldiers from both sides of the conflict, is now available for pre-order, in both Sinhala and Tamil, at the Perera Hussein website.
Watch author and publisher Ameena Hussein, along with academics Thakshala Tissera and Mahesh Hapugoda share views on their vision for SL English Writing: as to what they want it to be, from what it is at present. New Ink 2021 is an independently organized literary forum focusing on new English… Read More »New Ink 2021: “My Vision for SL English Writing”
Caste, while being one of the dominant socio-economic institutions in the Indian and Sri Lankan societies, is also one of the most complicated because of its multiple ramifications. Numerous scholars and researchers have made in-depth studies of the subject and their conclusions in turn have evoked further interest and queries… Read More »Caste and its Multiple Manifestations – A Study by Dr Selvy Thiruchandran
This review was originally posted on the World Literature Today website at www.worldliteraturetoday.org CHANDANI LOKUGÉ’S new novel, My Van Gogh, winds its way from Australia to France with the lilt of an ancient pilgrim song. The novel, which traces the journey of a young Australian man, Shannon, to France in… Read More »My Van Gogh – Review by Aparna Halpé on World Literature Today
I have just finished reading a delightful book, Sunil Tantirige’s charming collection of stories about his childhood in Sri Lanka in the sixties and seventies….
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Watch Ameena Hussein discuss her latest book: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka, live on Zoom, at the 76th meeting of the Sri Lankan Literary Society. The meeting will be held at 6:30 P. M. Sri Lankan Time on Sunday the 6th of June 2021. Link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85450516937?pwd=Z2R3UnZjc1lMVmdaOUVaN3AyVnUyZz09 Meeting ID: 854… Read More »Sri Lanka Literary Society: Zoom meeting with Ameena Hussein