Dhanuka Dickwella is a Sri Lankan writer and geopolitical analyst based in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Chessboard of Geopolitics and has published poetry internationally across various platforms. With a keen interest in social and political issues, his analytical writings provide profound insights into global affairs.
Dhanuka contributes as a columnist for Force Magazine India and The Asian Review International, offering perspectives on contemporary geopolitics and international relations.
Mieko Kawakami’s Under the Eye of the Big Bird defies categorisation as part novel, part interlinked stories. Set in humanity’s distant future, this ambitious work explores extinction through fragmented narratives that gradually coalesce. Despite its bleak premise, moments of love and humour shine through, creating something genuinely original and haunting.
” And this reminds me of a quote attributed to Toni Morrison which goes something like “If there is a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it”.
In recent years, Sri Lanka’s once-respected translation landscape has undergone a troubling transformation. What was once a domain of skilled professionals dedicated to the meticulous art of cross-cultural communication has increasingly come to resemble what some critics describe as an “asylum shelter”
When you are fighting for livelihood and life, the language and idioms acceptable are those used by power structures and governments.
” In an era when gadgets and media are conspiring to shorten the attention spans of readers, turning human beings into cyborgs, or even worse- living, breathing AI models, I see the act of sitting in your favorite spot with your favorite beverage and sinking into your book as an act of silent rebellion. “
Rohan Monteiro’s Shadows Rising brings to life an unlikely hero-irreverent, witty and foul-mouthed-who seems to not have a care in the world. Until someone crosses a line. it is an exciting, fresh and unique take on timeless Indian myths told from the POV of a protagonist who might just be a lot more involved in the epics than he cares to admit.
But nowadays we are more aware of racism and other forms of bigotry, which fed all kinds of oppression and subjugation of peoples in the past.
This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.
It is a romanced attempt by a twenty-first-century Western European to read into the mind of a 16th-century Indian monarch
The Asian Review 