Tag: Sri Lanka

An Evening Train in Central Sri Lanka

Poem, Travel

I am alone in this journey – surrounded by fellow passengers, even friends going to the same destination; and yet alone, terribly alone, because you are not here. Loneliness is the gift you gave me: my beautiful, painful, profound loneliness.  Ever since you said goodbye, I have been alone; in truth, ever since I knew you. I lost everyone else

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‘Paradise’ – A Parable of Our Political Sensibilities

Cinema, Film Review

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews reputed Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage’s multi-lingual movie Paradise. How worthy is a life, when it belongs to someone from a subjugated ethnic community with absolutely no privilege? In Paradise, this question becomes central to a realm of several moral and ideological questions when a young Tamil boy from an estate breathes his last in a small

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