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Category Archives: Journalism

The One That Got Away – Ruvin de Silva

Sunday, August 2, 2020

The Sri Lankan actor-director and documentary photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Also filed in column, interview | Tagged acting, Barefoot, beer, cameras, Colombo, Deshan Tennekoon, dogs, Enda Walsh, Facebook, family, fashion, Flickr, Galle Literary Festival, girls, HSBC, humour, Kilinochchi, Korn, money, Mount Lavinia, photography, Red Bull, Ruvin de Silva, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL) | Comments (0)

‘Cheese sandwich optional’

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Review of Lev Parikian’s cheerful and entertaining Into the Tangled Bank: In which our author ventures outside to consider the British in nature. — For Geographical

Also filed in review | Tagged Audis, Beethoven, birds, cricket, Darwin, Elliot and Thompson Limited, Etta Lemon, Gilbert White, John Clare, Lev Parikian, London, music, nature, non-fiction, RSPB, sandwiches, Scotland, spiders, the Arctic, the BBC, the British, the Thames, Wales, Walter Rothschild | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – Prasanna Welangoda

Sunday, July 26, 2020

The Sri Lankan marketing manager and photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Also filed in column, interview | Tagged Advancetown Lake, architecture, Australia, Brisbane, cameras, Canon, fashion, fireworks, food, hiking, hotels, Kotaku, landscapes, MMA, Natural Bridge, Negombo, photography, PR, Prasanna Welangoda, Queensland, smoking, snakes, social media, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), the Ekka, the Gold Coast, trees | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – Deshan Tennekoon

Sunday, July 19, 2020

The Sri Lankan author, Fulbright scholar and photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. TRIGGER WARNING: includes bird-poo references. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Also filed in column, interview | Tagged Americans, architecture, birds, cadjan, Dambulla, Deshan Tennekoon, editors, Everest, Fulbright Program, Galle Literary Festival, in-laws, mountaineering, photography, portraits, publishing, Red Cross, shit, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), swimming, Time Out, Trincomalee, UNICEF, Xbox | Comments (0)

Hat trick ball

Thursday, July 16, 2020

My mate Howard has found a cricket ball in his aunt’s attic… — For The Critic

Also filed in correspondence | Tagged beer, Bolton, British Army, courts martial, cricket, drink, Gibraltar, Gunner magazine, hats, history, James Costello, Lancashire, pubs, Royal Engineers, Royal Garrison Artillery, statistics, The Critic, Town Malling Cricket Club, Wisden, WWI | Comments (0)

. The Irish language still lingers in the Bahamas among the mixed descendants of the Hibernian patriots banished by Cromwell to the West Indies. One can occasionally hear black sailors in the London docks, who cannot speak a work of English, talking Irish to the old applewomen whom they meet, and thus making themselves intelligible […]

Also filed in NEWS AT A GLANCE | Tagged anatomy, astronomy, churches, clubbing, Diderot, elephants, Facebook, fruit, Irish, ironmongery, madness, Nelson Evening Mail, news, Oliver Cromwell, Poetry, Prince Gunarasa Casinader, Russians, sailors, satire, sex, shoes, Sri Lankans, Stephen Joyce, tea, the Bahamas, Turks, twins, urine, walls, Walter Benjamin | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – Thusith Wijedoru

Sunday, July 12, 2020

The Sri Lankan sports photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Also filed in column, interview | Tagged advertising, Alex Hales, Australia, Bangladesh, Carlsberg, Chandrishan Perera, cricket, England, Hong Kong, India, Kumar Sangakkara, Lasith Malinga, Muttiah Muralitharan, New Zealand, Percy Abeysekera, rugby, security, South Africa, sport, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), Thusith Wijedoru, Tillakaratne Dilshan, United Arab Emirates | Comments (0)

State of the nation

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Review of Andrew Fidel Fernando’s debut book Upon a Sleepless Isle, which has just won Sri Lanka’s Gratiaen Prize (2019) for English-language literature. — For The Critic

Also filed in review | Tagged Andrew Fidel Fernando, Anuradhapura, beards, beer, Booker Prize, children, Colombo, colonialism, cricket, elephants, English, ESPNCricinfo, Gratiaen Prize, humour, Jaffna, John Still, Kandy, LTTE, Michael Ondaatje, Minneriya, New Zealand, Nuwara Eliya, Picador India, Polonnaruwa, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, tea, the British, The Critic, the Victorians, tourism, travel, tuktuks, Uva Rebellion, writers | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, July 6, 2020

. Only six percent. of all paper produced is used for making books. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Monday, February 18 1907 . The Bombay Harmonium Company are neither from Bombay nor do they manufacture or stock harmoniums. Thor Heyerdahl was right. Only 38% of Netflix content is available outside the US. Penguins can shoot […]

Also filed in NEWS AT A GLANCE | Tagged America, anthropology, Ayn Rand, Bombay, books, Carlsberg, Denver, food, harmoniums, Hungary, literature, London, money, Nelson Evening Mail, Netflix, news, paper, Patrick Harrington, penguins, pigeons, Ringo Starr, satire, shit, tea, Thor Heyerdahl, Venezuela, Venice, yoga | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – David Blacker

Sunday, July 5, 2020

The Sri Lankan writer and photographer talks about the greatest photo he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Also filed in column, interview | Tagged Buddhism, China, clothing, David Blacker, demons, Interview, Kandy, light, monks, New York Times, novels, photography, Ritigala, Sinhala, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), Sweden, terrorism, travel, veddahs, war | Comments (0)

Category Archives: Journalism

The One That Got Away – Ruvin de Silva

‘Cheese sandwich optional’

The One That Got Away – Prasanna Welangoda

The One That Got Away – Deshan Tennekoon

Hat trick ball

NEWS AT A GLANCE

The One That Got Away – Thusith Wijedoru

State of the nation

NEWS AT A GLANCE

The One That Got Away – David Blacker

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