Book Review

By M.R. Narayan Swamy When kings become authoritarian and develop disdain for their subjects, their kingdoms collapse. This is what happened in modern Sri Lanka when a president and his kin presided over the picturesque country as if it were family property. A child prodigy who grew to be an insider with a conscience, Thisuri Wanniarachchi, unveils the story in a most chilling and gripping manner. Thisuri was just 15 when she bagged Sri Lanka’s most prestigious literary award for her first

By: M.R. Narayan Swamy American dancer Jane Sherman fell in love with Sri Lanka at first sight. The train journey from India to the island nation may have been ghastly but the teenager, who would later become famous, was wide awake at dawn in 1926 to see the sun come up over the luscious green foliage in the country. She was full of admiration for the blue sea water, and described the people in Sri Lanka as “cleaner than Indians”. During the time she spent in Sri Lanka, Jane gave full m