Recently, when a popular television quiz show asked to name the first Sinhala novelist, the answer was erroneously stated as Simon de Silva, and the novel as ‘Meena’. The host however was doubtful of ...
Amorphous and ambivalent, the Sinhala middle-class remains undefined and uncharted. It is difficult to pin them down to a particular conception of them. What are their tastes, interests, habits? What ...