A collection of newspaper columns by the journalist Sumudu Chathurani Jayawardena, gathered from the series she wrote under this same title for the Sinhala weekly Silumina. The book is written entirely in Sinhala, so a reading knowledge of the language is needed.
The column, as a form, sets out a single matter briefly and clearly, and that is the shape of the writing here. Each piece takes up something connected to ordinary life and explains it in short compass — sometimes lightly, sometimes at greater depth and in a more literary register. Taken together, the pieces turn attention to sides of life that readers may not have looked at before.
Because the entries were written for a weekly newspaper audience, they are self-contained and can be read in any order, a few at a sitting, rather than straight through. Readers who followed the column in Silumina will recognise the voice; those coming to it fresh are getting the series collected in one volume.
Published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, an established Colombo house issuing books in Sinhala and English. The book will suit readers of Sinhala-language journalism and short reflective prose, and Sri Lankan readers abroad who want to keep up with writing from the Colombo papers.
- Author: Sumudu Chathurani Jayawardena
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552125218
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