Beyond the pitch

Home quarantine is now reached a month and more than a month people's daily activities have come to standstill. I think non one can find a appropriate time to watvh a TV series like Walking Dead and relate to its thematic strands of viral diseases, selfish human emotions and the world at its end wits. The series is scintilating for its thematic repreentation of human fear and guilt in a crisis like coronavirus where humanity and civilisation comes to a point where you have to make serious decision to compromise your desire to live and survive. Any literary work that carries the theme of survival catches my attention real quick I enjoy to watch people how venture  to survivie no matter the principles, ideologies you choose to believe. In that sense, chaos are perfect opportunities to learn new lessons: human beings have a tendency to be complacent and they reach their optimum level or the potential level when they are presented with a disaster. The same theory applies to the artific...

The Sri Lankan national education policy suffers from serious lapses from its very beginning: there is a rat race among the parents to admit their children to a well reputed national school leading to a loophole of  endless crimes varying from forged documents to sexual bribery. The next chaotic juncture is in grade five where the children are excruciatingly penalised if they fail at the government scholarship examination. The O/L and A/L s are a also bit of a hectic period in a student's life in Sri Lanka. In addition to the serious lapses of Sri Lankan education system including parroting/cramming exams and procrastination at the end of each term, lack of institutional space to think freely and criticise the subject matter, what seems to be the darkest of the dark errors seems to be the lack of guidance given at school to pursue their education. The world is not what it used to be thirty twenty or at least ten years ago. To be a doctor if you do bio, an engineer from math classe...

People always expect you to write a novel if you read for an English degree! If it is a Honours degree the expectations are pretty high! Writing a novel or even a poem needs a lot of time! When I was a child I had a passion to publish two three novels in a single year!!! Reading a big book was also a big dream of mine. I used to gaze at people who were reading classic novels in trains and buses 😀😀😀😀😀(I always have this crazy desire to look at people's face and know what is going on  inside their head and what they are feeling..  Are they happy, sad, tired, excited or whatnot? 😅😅😅😅😅)But now I realise that fiction and literature altogether is a far more advanced or complex  than publishing two three novels in a calendar year. I always wanted to be a publisher one day. I also wonder why people do not have the same expectation of graduates who read for  a Sinhala degree???? I think Sinhala and English are not considered two langauges in this island nation. It ...

දොහ් දොහ්! දඩ අඹ ගෙඩි දෙකක් එකපාරටම බිමට වැටුණා. රට අඹ ගහේ අඹ හරි රසයි. එක නිසාම ඒකට පෙරේත කමට දුවල ගිහින් ඒවා අහුලා ගන්න එක මගේ සිරිතක්. අඹ ගෙඩි දෙක අහුලන් ඇවිල්ල  කුස්සියෙන් තිබ්බට පස්සේ මතක් උනේ මේ ගෙඩි වැටෙන්නේ කොහොමද? අඹ ගෙඩි වැටෙන්නේ කොහොමද කියන එක හරි සරල ලේසි ප්‍රශ්නයක් උනාට මෙච්ච්ර කල් ඒක මෙහෙම ඔළුවට ඇවිත් තිබුනේ නැහැ. එකේ විද්‍යාත්මක කාරණේ හොයල බැලුවම දකින්නේ ලැබුනේ මෙන්න මෙහෙම දෙයක්. අඹ ගෙඩිය ඉදුනට පස්සේ අඹ ගෙඩියට එන ඔක්සින් කියන හොර්මොනය නතර වෙනවා. ඒ හෝර්මෝනය නතර උනාම අඹ ගෙඩියේ නටුව දිගේ ජලය එන්න බැරි විදිහට ඒ නටුවේ අග සෛල බිත්තියක් නිර්මාණය වෙනවා. ඒ නිසා ජල සැපයුම නතර උනාම අඹ ගෙඩිය දරා ඉන්න නටුව  ස්වභාවික මරණයකට ගොදුරැ වෙනවා. මැරුණු  නටුව ට අඹ ගෙඩියේ  බර දරාගන්න බැරි උන ගමන් අඹ ගෙඩිය බිමට වැටෙනවා. විද්‍යාත්මක ඇසින් නෙවෙයි මේක දිහා පොඩ්ඩක් වෙන කෝණයකින් කල්පනා කරලා බැලුවම හිතට අමුතු හැගීමක් එනවා. ගහ නිෂ්පාදනය කරපු ගෙඩිය ගහට දරා ගන්න බැරුව අත අරින්න වෙනවා. පොඩි කාලේ ඉදන්ම දුක් මහන්සි වෙලා ජලය සපයල කන්න බොන්න දීල අමාරුවෙන් හද ගත්ත ගෙඩියට යන්න දෙනවා කියන...