- 14 September 2012
Thilak Jayaratne: A man unbowed
Making an extraordinarily acute observation, veteran broadcaster and scriptwriter Tilak Jayaratne who passed away after battling a killer disease with characteristic courage, pointed out in a telephone conversation with me on the phone barely two months ago....
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- 02 July 2012
Who’s who: South Asian writers making waves
My interest in South Asian literature was ignited by my year off before university, 1993-4, which I spent teaching in Peshawar. An obsessive reader, I immediately joined Peshawar’s old-fashioned public library, and found myself......
- 17 June 2012
Dharmaratnam Sivaram: Murder of a brilliant journalist
On Thursday 28th April, at about 7.30 pm German time I received the shocking news from Sri Lanka that the Tamil Journalist Dharmaratnam Sivaram had been abducted by 4 men in a SUV type vehicle. From that time, for the next Eight and a Half hours......
