“AN IMPORTANT AND HISTORIC DOCUMENT ON INDIA” Reginald Massey The intellectual and highly respected academic Bhikhu Parekh has just published Debating India: Essays on Indian Political Discourse (OUP India) which has a dozen of his epochal essays written over a period of two decades. No one who is concerned about India or who studies or…
A unique library on Sri Lanka, perhaps the only one of its kind overseas, exists in Melbourne, Australia. This library was begun by Victor Melder in 1968, when he migrated to Australia. Victor, who had only one book with him then, has today accumulated over 4,600 books, 2000 magazines and journals, 25 years Sunday…
Syeda Imam As I forayed into writing for Confluence the subject suggested itself, almost insisting on being the first automatic choice which dwells on on how from all parts of the world, and particularly those of us from the East and the Subcontinent have adopted English as a language of frequent exchange. Indeed in many…
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Forward Poetry, Britain’s largest publisher of poetry, recently held a competition on the theme of Love is in the Air. Massey’s poem 1+
By Girija Madhavan I was born in 1938 in a house now called “Sahyadri,” the first of the four large Railway Bungalows that still stand facing KRS Road in Vani Vilas Mohalla, diagonally opposite Cheluvamba Park. In those days, it was known as the Loco Superintendent’s Bungalow. A Scotswoman, Dr. Gillespie of the Mission [or…
(Excerpts from C.E. Anandarajan memorial lecture delivered by Dr. Daya Somasundaram, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Jaffna and University Adelaide) Many youths, the blossoming flowers of our communities were killed during the recent civil war in Sri Lanka. Many more were injured (and) maimed; some continue to live with shell (fragments in their bodies) and…