ෙලෙඩක් මරණාසන්නව ෙරා්හල් අෑදක වෑතිර සිටියි. ඔහුෙග් ප්රානය රදා පවතින්ෙන් විදුලි උපකරණවලට පින් සිද්ද වන්නටය. ඔහු බලන්නට එන අමුත්ෙතා් ඔහු සිටින්ෙන් සිහි නතුව යෑයි සිතා ෙනාෙයක් කතා කරති. ෙලඩා ගෑනම ෙනාෙයක් ෙද් කියති. ෙමි සියල්ලම ෙලඩාට අෑෙස්. ෙමි දුර්ලභ අත්දෑකීම වස්තු ෙකාට ගත් ෙහාද නවකතාවක් මම මැතකදී කියවීමි. – ෙමෙහම කියන්ෙන් ෙමෙස් පෑවසුෙවි 2010 ස්වර්ණ [...]
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Babli
Babli is my 4th Sinhala novel, after “Vessan Novu Vedyn’ (1st Sinhala e-novel), ‘Chandraratnage Bhavantara Charikava’ (short listed for Swarna Pusthaka) and ‘Asa Sitiya Ohu Mese’ (the Sinhala version of ‘Eavesdropper” which won the State Literary Award for the Best English Novel) Babli is the story of a young village girl who has the courage [...]
the cow in the cybercafe
the cow in the cybercafe daya dissanayake (2004) ‘If I stay here for one more day, I’ll have to kill myself’ said the girl in khaki shorts and white t-shirt. ‘Why?’ asked the girl in the flowered cotton frock, without taking her eyes off the book she was reading. ‘Because I don’t want to end [...]
corruption
Corruption breeds corruption Today the United Nations is “celebrating” corruption. A few decades ago, corruption was not a word heard often, bribery was a word which was never used openly. Bribery then would mean palming a one rupee coin to the gate keeper at the hospital to get in to the hospital outside visiting ours, [...]
sweetheart
sweetheart he offered his heart to her and got back a blood pump in return
is the swine flu a big swindle?
vaccines and “swine” flu The whole world has panicked with the spread of the new strain of influenza A, named H1N1. The original misnomer ‘swine flu’ made some of our officials consider banning the import of pork! Two years ago it was the ‘Bird flu’, with some people giving up on eating chicken! When there [...]
Ravana & the R.A.S.
R.A.S. & the RAMAYANA The Hindustan Times has reported today that our Royal Asiatic Society has claimed “The Tourist Board has been over the last couple of years marketing Sri Lanka to India as the abode of Ravana of the Hindu mythological epic the Ramayana. This is a total travesty and a future danger for [...]
Animals in concentration camps
Some of the recent deaths of animals in captivity in our zoological gardens, had been blamed on the visitors. The real blame should be accepted by the authorities who manage these prisons. Who collect innocent animals from around the country, and from around the world and who keep these animals in small cages for life. [...]
Caste in Buddhism
In the Supina Sutta of the Anguttara Nikaya, we hear of the four different coloured birds who alight at the feet of the Buddha and all of them turn white. Today the many coloured birds who alight at the feet of the statue of the Buddha, not only remain in their original colours, but they [...]
Five Precepts in Buddhism
In our country, we claim we have the purest and highest form of Buddhism and that we have preserved it for 2500 years, and with about 75% of the people in the country claim to be Buddhists. Most of these 15 million Buddhists recite the Five Preceots regularly, often several times a day. 1. Panatipata [...]