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‘get out of hxxx’ card…

When you are the target of shame it is like an invisible paint, or a corrosive substance thrown at you which makes you melt away to oblivion. It touches your very core, and you cannot pinpoint or shake it off.

the nobility of love and loyalty

When your Whatsapp is jammed with news of a Sinhala film coming to your local cinema in London, I did what any curious Lankan would do. ‘Buckets of popcorn on our laps, a childhood friend and I settled for a visual feast. ‘Gaadi: Children of the Sun’ was a beautifully shot film with cinematography which…

the chicken coop

Having confessed in my last blog that I am not a film buff, I surprise myself as I sit down to scribble my thoughts on another.  The White Tiger, a 2021 film adapted from the book by Aravind Adiga is not for the faint hearted or something you could watch twice if you have even…

a divided kingdom

A real life love story that supersedes even the greatest Shakespearan drama or modern-day Hollywood concoction of romance. Steeped in political drama across continents in the hay day of post-war colonialism….

paper lanterns

When the ‘A bomb’ fell on Hiroshima at 8.15 on 6 August 1945, Shigeaki Mori was just eight years old.

a medieval english abbess and a pandemic

Once the largest building in Bishopsgate, St Ethelburga’s now stands small compared to the Gherkin and other skyscrapers in the financial centre of London. However small in size, the longevity of its legacy and the global reach of its work cannot be matched to the value of all the hedge funds and million-dollar deals that…


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