Say you lived a several centuries earlier, and you were the first to draw a world map; what side of the Earth should be drawn at the top?…Is it the Arctic or the Antarctic?. The Universe has no up and down; it is only defined by humans. If you’re from Europe, you’ll draw your continent […]

Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri and Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe both from the faculty of arts at the University of Colombo spoke at a Beyond Borders study circle in Colombo on how we interpret the construct called “history”. Following are some excerpts from their remarks.
Dr. Nirmal Dewasiri on the relationship between the past and the present :

Prof. […]

Starkle starkle little twink,
Who the hell are you I think?
I’m not under what you call,
The affluence of incohol.
I’m just a little slort of sheep,
I’m not drunk like thinkle peep.
I don’t know who is me yet,
But the drunker I stay the longer I get.
So one more drink to fill up my cup,
I got all sober to […]