Archive for September, 2008
“Myth Vs Reality” – East
Recently, In August visited the eastern province (Ampara and Batticoloa), on a work assignment for four days. Since most people tend to say that “the east is very volatile and it’s not safe to travel”, etc, I thought I will write a short post about the myth Vs reality on the east.
Speaking about Ampara, I [...]
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Tags: Ampara, Batticoloa, Conflict, East, Normal Life, Peace, Sri Lanka
Let’s Learn….Gibberish!
Ever heard of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade? Or Ian Serrailier’s horror-inspiring Grendel? Or even modern poet Gwen Strauss’s take on Cinderella- a deep lyric with death, sadness, sarcasm & even undertones of sex in it.
Well if you are a serious student of literature, like myself, you probably would have.
Now think of [...]
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Tags: Beyond Borders, Communication, Education, English, Sri Lanka
Peace One Day
September 21st is the International Day of Peace. The story of one British film maker’s quest to make that day be accepted by the United Nations is an inspirational one. His organization, Peace One Day, tries to create global awareness of the day and promote individual action for peace throughout the world September 21st every [...]
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Tags: Activism, Colombo, Peace, Peace One Day, Peace One Day 2008, Sri Lanka, UN Peace Day, Work
Last Friday I finished my summer internship at a frontline Architecture firm in London. It was a wonderful experience, Learning things about architecture was almost “not primary” (emphasise on almost). All that I observed and learnt were an amalgam of Architecture, people, stereotypes/or absence of it and about life itself.
I was guided at work right [...]
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Tags: Architecture, Culture, Education, Minority, Sri Lanka, Student, UK, Youth
Guest Post: The Dubai Diaries
As soon as I set my feet on Lankan soil (well…that plane-to-airport connecting thing anyway), I got the smell. Not a stench, not an aroma, but a smell. A welcoming smell that beats the plastered smiles on those airline hostesses anyday. It had been exactly a year since I had wheeled my trolley-bag down our [...]
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Thanks to work we do at BB, I have sat at countless foums, discussions and workshops which eventually ends up talking about Sri Lanka’s conflict. A lot of these discussions have included Colombo-based cosmopolitan youth, and some of them (I’ll even say many) seems to think that Sri Lanka doesn’t have an ethnic conflict. Their [...]
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Tags: Colombo, Cosmopolitan, Ethnic Conflict, Sri Lanka
Foursome at Beyond Borders
No, not in the sexual sense. BBite Ding talks about how within BB there are no ethnic boundaries, and how friendships cut right across race. Guru warns when commenting that this has been used to cover up the ethnic conflict at different steps.
There’s Godaya (me), the Lawyer, the Architect, and Our Fearless Leader (OFL) – [...]
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