Category Archives: Indian Ocean
When Worlds Collide #28: From Great Basses Reef to ‘Ran Muthu Duwa’ – Story of Ceylon’s First Colour Movie
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 12 August 2012 Ran Muthu Duwa (Island of Treasures), the first colour Sinhala feature film made in Sri Lanka, was released exactly 50 years ago this … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #17: We are All Children of the Monsoon!
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 27 May 2012 For the past few days, while enduring Colombo’s heat and high humidity, I’ve been hoping for a timely monsoon. A billion and a … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #14: Freezing Moments and Defying Time’s Tyranny
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 6 May 2012 Growing up in a very different Sri Lanka during the 1970s, I was image starved. We had no television, no Internet, and going … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #12: Of Tsunami Waves and Twitter Ripples…
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 22 April 2012 To warn or not to warn — that was the question. On 11 April 2012, following a powerful undersea earthquake, government officials in … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #9: Near-misses in the ‘Battle of Ceylon’ (Japanese Air Raid on 5 April 1942)
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 1 April 2012 Few among us have personal memories of the Japanese air raid of Ceylon that happened on the Easter Sunday, 5 April 1942. Yet … Continue reading
