Are You On The List?

Sunday was spent setting up for what turned out to be a rather spectacular gig. We’re talking a something maybe little less than a 1000 balloons which in reality felt like a good 2000, lots of black fabric and gaffer tape. One of those life experience setting up for a band- check. You know it [...]

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When Everything You See Is A Blur

There’s been a lot going on in the past few days, especially on the civilian devastation front and more I read, the angrier and more depressed I get. The images of men, women and children bee-lining to safety, only to be housed like quarantined cattle ravaged by tragedy and illness. I feel like I should [...]

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Ashamed of Special Places: Sri Lanka After The British

Turns out both the LTTE and pregnant Women hold special places in Sri Lanka, the former in history and the latter in Eastern culture where they are allowed to skip queues and offered seats on buses.
Location: School II, St. Salvator’s Quadrangle, The University of St. Andrews
Occasion: Address by Justice Nihal Jayasinghe High Commissioner of Sri [...]

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No Large Bags or Satchels

Found a breather amidst the piles and piles of work which range from Bolivian tin mining (yes, it’s still hovering and it’s still dull) to female plantation labourers, so first order of business would be-
Subha Aluth Avuruddak Weva! Eniya Puthandu Nalvazhthukkal! Happy New Year!
A bit late, I know but hope the year ahead is a [...]

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Brain Melt

That’s what it feels like right now. All that grey matter bubbling with exhaustion from those infinite reading lists which never seem to wind down. *Sigh*
You can probably tell already this is one of those whinge-y posts indulging in superfluous self-pity, at the sight of a 363 page ethnography on Bolivian tin miners. It was [...]

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Ghosts of Summers Past

On break at the moment, but with the pile of reading that’s been accumulating on my desk for weeks (despite semi-conscientious efforts to thwart the inky paper monster), you could have fooled anyone. You could have fooled me. It’s hard to believe that third year’s already winding down, spiralling slowly towards another finite end marked [...]

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