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When the Twerms Came: The PLAYBOY Comic Strip is found!
Wow, isn’t the Facebook a great place to connect people, ideas and creativity? I never thought much about it, but maybe I ought to spend more time there… Yesterday, I published a semi-serious essay...
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Wanted: More courageous little ‘Mack’s to unsettle Yertle Kings of our times!
Related blog post on 7 Feb 2011: Of Dictators and Terrible Cockroaches: A Russian children’s story…from 1925! January 2011 has been an eventful month for democratic reform in the Middle East. As People...
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Of Dictators and Terrible Cockroaches: A Russian children’s story…from 1925!
Sometime ago, when I gave a talk at the Sri Lanka Rationnalists’ Association, a member of my audience asked if parents should be banned from reading fairy tales to their children. His argued that...
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සිවුමංසල කොලූගැටයා #38: පණ්ඩිතයන්ගෙන් ළදරු රූපවාහිනිය බේරා ගත් ටයි මාමා
In this column, which appears in Ravaya newspaper on 30 October 2011, I pay tribute to the late film and TV professional Titus Thotawatte. I recall how he founded and headed the effort to ‘localise’...
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2012: Will End-of-the-World industries end this year?
Read my Sunday column on 4 Nov 2012: End-of-the-World, Inc. Read my post on 21 Dec 2012: 21 Dec 2012 is here: So where’s the End of the World I was promised? So 2012 is finally here! I’ve been waiting...
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The Last Filming? Mystery of Missing Science Writer and Cameraman finally...
Date: 21 July 2011 Location: Garden of Leslie’s House, Barnes Place, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka — where Sir Arthur C Clarke lived for 35 years until his death in March 2008 My colleague Janaka Sri Jayalath...
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Sir Patrick Moore (1923 -2012): Our Travel Guide to the Universe
Tribute published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 13 Dec 2012: The first ever book on astronomy I owned as a kid, a pocket guide to the night sky, was written by an Englishman named Patrick Moore. Armed...
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Bridging Sri Lanka’s Deficit of Hope: What’s to be done?
During the height of the Cold War, Soviet Communist Party chief (Leonid) Brezhnev and his deputy were having a one-on-one meeting. Brezhnev says, “Maybe it’s time we opened our borders and allowed free...
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සිවුමංසල කොලූගැටයා #114: ටාසිගේ ලෝකය හා මගේ ලෝකය
I have devoted another weekend column in Ravaya newspaper (in Sinhala) to celebrate the memory of the illustrious Lankan journalist, editor and development communicator, Tarzie Vitachi (1921 – 1993)....
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සිවුමංසල කොලූගැටයා #168: නින්දෙන් ඇවිදින ලක් සමාජය හේතුවාදීන්ට අවදි කළ හැකිද?
In this week’s Ravaya column (in Sinhala), I introduce a recent anthology of rationalist essays compiled and edited by leading Sinhala language writer Ajith Thilakasena. I was asked to talk about the...
View Articleසිවුමංසල කොලු ගැටයා #369 –අත්ත බිඳෙයි පය බුරුලෙන්: සමාජ මාධ්ය නියාමනයේ...
Trends like ultra-nationalistic media, hate speech and fake news have all been around for decades — certainly well before the web emerged in the 1990s. What digital tools and the web have done is to...
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