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By Prof Sasanka Perera
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, one of the annual rituals practised in my household was the family’s visit to my maternal grandfather’s house in a Southern village called Meegama.
This happened in April that coincided with the Sinhala and Tamil New Year in the context of which visiting one’s elders was a necessary cultural and emotional prerequisite.
On some of those...
Anyone even with a marginal use of the internet or other internet-based technologies would know well that humour, and particularly political humour now invades their private and public space mediated by technology instantly.
You are more likely than not to receive cartoons, memes or other content with humour via Face Book, Twitter, Instagram more publicly or through...
Marriage and passion
More than 30 years ago, I seriously contemplated on writing a theoretical tract on the contemporary manifestations and utility of marriage as an institution. Towards that end, I even travelled to India in search of books I could not find in Lanka.
During that trip, I recall going to three bookshops in Delhi looking for Michel Foucault’s well-known series, The History of...