Notes from Ceylon

Footprints on Water by Bernd Pflug Colombo, 2024, Perera Hussein Publishing House The Ceylon Civil Service, long sadly defunct, was lucky in...

Sri Vikrama Rajasinha’s captured throne From about 1812 until 1815, members of the Kandyan nobility conspired with a foreign power, the Unit...

Fraser of Trinity & Achimota by W.E.F. Ward Alec Garden Fraser was a legendary headmaster at Trinity College, Kandy, an elite boy’s scho...

  The words below were delivered yesterday over Mahen’s remains. There was no PA and quite a bit of unavoidable noise. People told me later ...

Confessions   St Augustine This is, apparently, the world’s first autobiography. The parts of the narrative that deal with the author’s pers...

When people project their thoughts along what even we greybeards no longer call the Information Superhighway, nuance and subtlety seem to ge...

I normally enjoy the work of Umberto Eco. A professor as well as a novelist, he all but invented the field of semiology, the study of the me...