literate chauvinism daya dissanayake “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read”, wrote Mark Twain. Yet the man who can read but does not, considers himself superior to someone who cannot read. That is Literate Chauvinism, which extends to Linguistic Chauvinism, when “my language is superior to yours”, [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2012
culture in my pocket
Museums in my pocket daya dissanayake Google has partnered with the Israel Museum to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them available online. These scrolls, dating back to the time of the birth of Christianity, had to be locked up in the museum due to their fragility. Till now only a few scholars and [...]
all roads bring garbage
All Roads Lead to Eco-destruction Creative Placemaking has come to Nuwara Eliya, brining vast improvements to the town, specially around Lake Gregory and all roads did lead to Nuwara Eliya, this ‘season’ too. The little town was bursting at its seams. A cultural tradition inherited from the ‘White masters’, is one more battle of nature [...]
Melville’s woman
The Draft of a Draft “White Killer Whale Adult spotted for the first time in wild”. On April 23rd, BBC reported a sighting of a white whale, off the coast of eastern Russia. The article concludes, “The most famous white whale, though, is the fictional sperm whale that drove Captain Ahab to his eventual fatal [...]