Notes from Ceylon
Jottings, rants and book reviews from a place that no longer exists.
05 August 2025
Isle of Demons: The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
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Back in my long-lost youth, when I was running through the corpus of published science fiction like a hot knife through butter, the Nebula A...
03 August 2025
The Devil & Dandris Gooneratne
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Demonology & Witchcraft in Ceylon Dandris de Silva Gooneratne My copy of this miniature masterpiece was gifted to me by my old friend Cr...
08 June 2025
From Hippo, with Love
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Confessions St Augustine This is, apparently, the world’s first autobiography. The parts of the narrative that deal with the author’s pers...
30 May 2025
Digital Dualism
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When people project their thoughts along what even we greybeards no longer call the Information Superhighway, nuance and subtlety seem to ge...
19 April 2025
Hill-Country Cosmopolis
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The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom by Gananath Obeyesekere In this slender but fact-filled volume, the author presents an alternative and...
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