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Chicken dancing, naughty Tamil literature, and Rana Dasgupta goes Solo (outdoors)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Galle Literary Festival diary – part 3.

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Tagged Ashok Ferrey, Blaft, Cyril Connolly, David Blacker, Galle Literary Festival, Ian Rankin, Kaveri Lalchand, Malinda Seneviratne, Neluka Silva, Pradeep Jeganathan, Prospect, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Sarnath Banerjee, Shehan Karunatilaka, Smriti Daniel, Solo | Comments (0)

(Beer and) Roving on the literary circuit

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Despatches from the Galle Literary Festival (SL Sunday Times).

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Tagged Ashok Ferrey, Blaft, Claire Tomalin, David Blacker, Diran Adebayo, Galle Literary Festival, Geoff Dyer, Geoffrey Bawa, hangovers, Ian Rankin, Jehan Mendis, Kaveri Lalchand, Louise Doughty, Malinda Seneviratne, McSweeney's, Michael Frayn, Michael Meyler, Mohammed Hanif, Monica Narula, Neluka Silva, Philip Roth, Pradeep Jeganathan, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Sarnath Banerjee, Shehan Karunatilaka, Shyam Selvadurai, Smriti Daniel, Spectator, Sunday Times (SL), Tokyo Cancelled, Ulrik Plesner, Wendy Cope, WG Sebald | Comments (0)

Geoff Dyer, Michael Frayn, and other people who were or were not there

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

GLF diaries – part the second.

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Tagged Ashok Ferrey, David Blacker, Diran Adebayo, Galle Literary Festival, Geoff Dyer, Geoffrey Bawa, Gillian Slovo, Lal Medawattegedara, literature, McSweeney's, Michael Frayn, Michelle de Kretser, Monica Narula, Pradeep Jeganathan, Prospect, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Ulrik Plesner, Wendy Cope | Comments (0)

I am unimpresed by Brazilians

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Reviewing some photographs from South America.

Filed in Journalism, review | Tagged Barefoot, Barthes, Borges, Brazil, Chatwin, Christmas, cliché, Lionel Wendt, Orlando Azevedo, photography, Sunday Times (SL), Vilma Slomp, William Faulkner | Comments (0)

In which the author expresses his love for Wendy Cope

Friday, January 29, 2010

Diary from the Galle Literary Festival (preamble).

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Tagged Antoine de St Exupéry, Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper, Ashok Ferrey, Bevis Bawa, Claire Tomalin, Clive James, Erich Kastner, Galle Literary Festival, Geoffrey Bawa, Gillian Slovo, Ian Rankin, Kingsley Amis, literature, Louise Doughty, Michael Frayn, Prospect, Rana Dasgupta, Shyam Selvadurai, Wendy Cope, WG Sebald | Comments (0)

Immigration, insurrection, and the elephant in the room: Ashok Ferrey gets serious

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Given the continuing success of his two Gratiaen-nominated story collections, Colpetty People and The Good Little Ceylonese Girl, Ashok Ferrey’s first novel could fairly have been described as ‘long-awaited’… if only anyone had known it was coming. But then that’s not how Serendipity works, is it? And now all of Colombo is chattering about the […]

Filed in interview, Journalism | Tagged Ashok Ferrey, Hi!! magazine, Sri Lankan literature | Comments (0)

Playing my bit-part in Apocalypse Now

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Review of The Indian Core at Barefoot.

Filed in Journalism, review | Tagged Apocalypse Now, Barefoot, Indian Core, jazz, Kula Shaker, Norway, Sunday Times (SL) | Comments (0)

From Mendelssohn minor to Ursa Major

Sunday, December 6, 2009

The CMSC Bicentennial Concert 2009, reviewed.

Filed in Journalism, review | Tagged Chamber Music Society of Colombo, Handel, Haydn, Hercules, Mendelssohn, music | Comments (0)

Ethiopians attack BBC’s doom-laden coverage

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Same footage, different story. For The First Post.

Filed in feature, Journalism | Tagged BBC, Ethiopia, The First Post | Comments (0)

Rub on funk, to taste

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Arrack, cigars and not much else at The Mount Lavinia Jazz Festival. For the Sunday Times (SL).

Filed in Journalism, review | | Comments (0)