Culture is departure from nature. It has been the way throughout man’s history. Man, Homo sapiens would have lived with nature till he became Homo symbolicus and then Homo eastheticus. Every step man took in the name of progress and advancement of his culture was a step further away from nature, yet man has not been able to define [...]
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Music in the clouds
Paul McCartney is planning to have his complete music library in the clouds. Once this ambitious project is completed, any music lover could select his music ‘out of thin air’. According to CNN reports, McCartney, the former Beatles legend, is having all his music digitized. It is estimated that it will take about three years [...]
genes, memes and arts spots
Dr. Dean Hamer, director of gene structure and regulation unit at U.S. National Cancer Institute, wrote a book about the ‘God Gene’, trying to identify a gene responsible for religious beliefs. He was attacked by Barbara J. King, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, who said that “Hamer needs to find a gene for recognizing [...]
Be Peaceful & Useful
The concept of “Dhammic Socialism” was introduced by Ajahn Buddhadasa. He defined Dhammic as being “Peaceful” and “Useful” and Socialism as serving our society selflessly. Anyone who can be at peace with the universe, and be useful is a true follower of the Dhamma. Dhamma is the universal truth, which was realized by the Buddha, [...]
Buddhism in India
from the Daily News Wesak Annual, 2011 “As the most creative social philosopher in our history, Buddha has symbolized an alternative of possibilities of organizing society, an alternative to the hierarchical and inegalitarian principles of Brahminism”. Wrote Prof. Uma Chakravarti, commenting on Kancha Ilaiah’s book, “God as Political Philosopher, Buddha’s Challenge to Brahmanism”. There are [...]
අසා සිටියා ඔහු මෙෙස්
ෙ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 [...]
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