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Drowning in a tsunami of cliché?

Friday, May 7, 2010

The Gratiaen Prize 2009 The Gratiaen Prize – for those of you not up on your South Asian literary gongs – is an annual award given to Sri Lankan writers for creative writing in English, f(o)unded in 1993 by Michael Ondaatje, with his English Patient Booker winnings. Writing-in-English is a small crowd here – ‘here’ […]

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So far, So-malia*

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Somali Islamists go to war – against each other. For The First Post. — * no, that line didn’t make the edit.

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The Devil is in the DJs

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Crazies ban music in Mogadishu (and the Somali ‘government’ attempts to ban the ban). For The First Post.

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“Is Ash [sic.] bereft of normal human feelings?”

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

First Post article on rising racial tensions in South Africa, following the murder of Eugène Terre’Blanche (in which it transpires that the present author is a vile racist for not mourning the death of… a vile racist).

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Two plays, one critic

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Review of The War Reporter and One Small Step.

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Second Thoughts

Monday, April 5, 2010

Very Short Stories* by ASH Smyth (et al.) * inspired by the Galle Literary Festival’s Opening Lines Project Antony Beevor In history, as in politics, intellectual honesty is the first casualty of moral outrage. In both disciplines, the first casualty of intellectual honesty is one’s wallet. David Blacker ‘He hit the morning, running, Benzedrine and […]

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Any ‘umbrella of tranquillity’ in a storm

Sunday, April 4, 2010

In the first of the Great Artist Series, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Colombo, acclaimed French pianist Jean-Bernard Pommier performed three meisterwerk sonatas to a sell-out Goethe-Institut crowd. Mozart’s Sonata in D Major is a lightish confection, perhaps slightly more icing than cake, from an era when pianos were still quite piano and […]

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Paths less travelled by

Monday, March 22, 2010

(Unexpurgated) review of the Chamber Music Society of Colombo’s Troubled Seas and Forest Paths concert I appreciate it must be tiresome – not to say slightly unnerving – listening to middle-aged boffins frotting over high-grade music, and that it’s not much better when the middle-aged boffins are actually in their 20s. But what to do? […]

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Sarnath Banerjee has his own aesthetics

Monday, March 15, 2010

only they’re a bit… wonky. Interview and slide-show with Delhi’s finest graphic novelist. — For theartsdesk

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“Obvious pitfalls were not routinely blundered into.”

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Glowing review of the SOSL Guest Conductor concert, 2010. [In which we learn, also, that it is better to file one’s copy at the absolute last minute, thereby precluding the editor from tampering with the text.]

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