And it is then that a single leaf falls on the theatre floor, in subtle punctuation of a louder presence than a frail echo, and asks the reason why I turned poet, do I know? Yes, I whisper back to the single leaf, and say, so I could have poetic license to love you.
These exceptionally crafted stories explore life in contemporary Sri Lanka through a sophisticated variety of literary modes, from exquisitely rendered realism to imaginatively allegorical fantasy... These stories are particularly strong in their depiction of women's...
Gayathri Madhurangi Hewagama is an academic and a creative writer. She has a PhD in English Literature from University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, and a BA and Mphil in the same field of studies from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She is the author of...