They still talk – across the dining table, in the theatre foyer, over a cup of coffee – about the first time Equus was staged in Sri Lanka. More than three decades have slipped by, and the play still holds its own, looming large in many memories. Controversial, shocking, so far ahead of its time, … Continue reading
“Baby, baby, baby don’t leave me. Ooh, please don’t leave me, all by myself.” It’s the early part of the 1960s in America. Martin Luther King has had a dream; the Russians are the winners of the space race, Audrey Hepburn just ate Breakfast at Tiffany’s and The Supremes are on the radio. Their voices … Continue reading
Currently, the best thing about winning the Booker Prize, as Kiran Desai would have it, is that it brought her here – to our tiny island in the Indian Ocean. “I anticipated my affection for Sri Lanka,” she says smiling. As the sun sinks past the horizon, and a dusky twilight cloaks Galle Fort, Kiran … Continue reading
Smriti Daniel 