The Sri Lankan photographer and documentarian talks about the greatest shot she never got… and one she did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times
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Sunday, September 27, 2020
The Sri Lankan photographer and artist talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times
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Also tagged Abdul Halik Azeez, age, architecture, art, blogging, Buddhism, cameras, citizenship, Colombo, Dambulla, documentary, economics, Facebook, health, Instagram, painting, Panadura, photography, poverty, Saskia Fernando Gallery, semiotics, spirituality, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), Tamils, travel, video
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The Sri Lankan writer and photographer talks about the greatest photo he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times
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Also 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
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Sri Lanka’s pre-eminent photographer talks about the greatest photo that he never took… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times
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Also tagged air travel, Anagarika Dharmapala, AsiaWeek, Barefoot, BBC, Ceylon, Der Spiegel, Dominic Sansoni, driving, Geoffrey Bawa, Jamie Foxx, movies, photography, portraiture, postcards, Richard Simon, roads, Robert Knox, roti, Sebastian Posingis, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), Thames & Hudson, the Maldives, The One That Got Away, Tom Cruise, travel, trees
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. The barnacles are scraped off British men-of-war twice a year..5 — The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, September 6 1906 . Wicca is the fastest-growing religion in the UK after Islam. The Dutch term for a sex buddy is ‘seksbuddy’. George I and his prime minister conversed officially in dog Latin. Irish 6th-formers know what The Communist Manifesto is […]
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A love letter to 20 years of watching Gladiator. — For The Critic
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DISCLAIMER: Ten years ago, I reviewed Shehan Karunatilaka’s debut novel, Chinaman, for this newspaper. It was brilliant, I said, and everyone should buy it. I noted, though, for form’s sake, that I’d done some light proofreading of the manuscript, and hoped that this would not be taken either as cause or symptom of inoperable bias. […]
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Canongate, £16.99, pp. 428 . In 1935 the troops of Benito Mussolini’s sinister-clownish Roman Empire II invaded Ethiopia, in large part out of spite for Italy’s embarrassing defeat there 40 years before. Initially largely uncontested – thanks both to emperor Haile Selassie’s desperate faith in international brotherhood and to […]
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The Hitler Years: Triumph 1933-1939 by Frank McDonough Head of Zeus £30 . In the early- to mid-1930s my grandmother (Irish, South African, later Australian) lived for a few years in the east of Germany, as a language assistant/housemistress in a boarding school. Her one recorded comment about Hitler’s accession to power was that he […]
. The diamond, in sufficient heat, will burn like a piece of charcoal. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Saturday, November 17 1906 . Podcasts will soon be like porn. The first three volumes of TS Eliot’s letters have been remaindered. Confidence travels. The door is a jar. Roken is dodelijk. Humans’ rubbish is the filthiest stuff […]
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Also tagged apparel, books, death, dictionaries, elephants, firemen, food, football, geology, law, letters, murder, Nelson Evening Mail, news, podcasts, pornography, publishing, satire, smoking, travel, TS Eliot, Turkish, vegetarianism, violin, waste management, work
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