A summarised interpretation of the country’s ocean economy and marine habitat since the end of colonialism is as follows. To date, the use of the Indian Ocean has been limited to what it was used since antiquity, namely trading and fishing. Many natural riches on the oceanfront have been neglected while the communities that should have been reaping the benefits are stuck in a vicious financial cycle.
Kawaguchi’s magical café serves as more than a setting—it becomes a metaphor for the human condition, where we are forever bound by our choices whilst yearning for impossible opportunities to revisit significant moments. His gentle approach to magical realism offers healing rather than alienation, affirming connection’s transformative power.
Sri Lankan politics is a thing of its own making. It is the unholy combination of good, bad, evil, and ugly. Machiavelli would have re-written “The Prince” had he had even a slight glimpse of Sri Lankan politics.
Interestingly, most political and business books are ghostwritten. If it is widely known that a particular genre of book is ghostwritten, there is no surprise or deception.
The Asian Group of Literature extends a heartfelt welcome to Fazmina Imamudeen as she assumes the role of editor-in-chief at The Asian Review Global.
Rumaan Alam’s novel Leave the World Behind is a captivating and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition in the face of impending crisis.
Global literature is nowadays a crazy Darwinian pool, with new talents emerging with wings, old talents sharpening their talons and genes of genres mixing and blurring the lines! The Asian Prize for […]
They say you should write the book you want to read. I wrote Brotherless Night because I wanted to read a book set in Jaffna during this time period—one focused on civilian lives, particularly those of Tamil women, students, teachers, and political dissidents.
True to Dugin’s words the only thing that has happened to Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union is the steady growth of its territorial size. There are plenty of examples. Starting with Georgia,
Forget the glitzy award ceremonies and hefty checks; forget the question, “So what’s the point of another literary price?”. You will know that things are about to get very real in literary-spear when the Asian Prize for Fiction announce its short listees for the Asian Prize 2023 edition, carving a unique path in the global literary landscape.
The novel ‘Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew’ written by Shehan Karunatilaka in 2010, is a remarkable piece of work that challenges the standard narrative structures and genres that are present in the literary world.
That very moment will give rise to a new precedent “Life of a NATO country soldier is the Rubicon line”.
What is needed now would be to formulate long-term strategies to avoid such a crisis from happening again and to establish ironclad food security for the country. There are a few thoughts towards this end.
Ceylon Literary Festival 2024 talks about a very real contemporary issue: Are writers destined to be doomed by the rise of AI-powered machines? Let’s face it. AI is here to stay. We have only scratched the mere surface of an unfathomable future with generative AI, and that’s the truth.
More than anything UAE is the beacon of hope for a world where competing interests could coexist. Let’s look at how UAE, the tiny Middle Eastern power, has hedged its bets under the leadership of MBZ.
What is evident is that walauwas were the houses of the Kandyan chieftains and the Low Country mudaliars. In contrast, the average citizen’s home was known as a ‘pela’, ‘palpatha‘, ‘maduwa‘, ‘kutiya‘ or ‘geya‘. The home of the village chief, the native doctor, vidane arachchi, mudalali, and so on was the ‘gedara’.
Just as much as the Houthis are not your ordinary rebels, the Sri Lanka navy is also not your ordinary naval force. Sri Lanka’s navy is a battle-hardened, experienced, formidable force that has proven the purpose of its existence many times throughout history for the people and the state it protects.
There is a concentrated, well-coordinated pushback against the American cultural influence by the entirety of the global south and some of the central and eastern European states. Those pushbacks come in both cultural and religious sense
“The World’s No.1 Literary Festival”, said Harper’s Bazaar, witnessing its launch in 2005. The Galle Literary Festival has become the most anticipated Literary Festival, hosting a variety of talks, workshops and exhibitions in an incredibly familiar atmosphere.
So, being a signatory and state party to the UNESCO Florence Agreement on the importation of educational, scientific and cultural materials, Sri Lanka must show its integrity to the global tools to which it is a signatory and its trustworthiness to the world.
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