Colloquies with Shenal

It is persuasive, allusive and contagious. It is strategic, proactive and calibrating. Tracking the true pulse of the readers, she fervently narrates her story addressing the phases of a life well-planned, well-managed and well-pursued. There are pinnacles, plateaus and cliffs with sharp ridges and valleys intertwined by never ending chaos of the work-life struggle. Yet, sensationally subjugated with utmost commitment and love while enjoying the life-&-passion cocktails. It is a narrative that celebrates the artistry of idea-making and the arduous, yet sense-making stimulation of knowledge sharing among people. It elaborates the painstaking efforts taken to grasp the insights of human behaviour to reach success in making business. It is a book that discusses the subtle art of winning hearts and making right choices when it is necessary. Further, the norms can be broken and stigmas can be eradicated. With three decades of experience in advertising, and contributing to different f...

History is a creative saga woven with phantom threads of heroism, nationalism, racism and sexism. It had been the place where many found the origins of their stories and vice versa. In such a context where history is considered as a fountain of ideas, Lalanayanaya plays a dual role. As an epic re-recreation of the forgone history, it indeed conforms with the norms of chronicles while unabashedly breaking the boundaries of imagination with many literary devices.  Upul Shantha Sannasgala as the author of this masterpiece, plays a gigantic role in bringing the reader to a serendipitous encounter with his mastery over language which is full of exquisite delicacies of grandiloquence. Strengthened by the artistry he reproduces, Lalanayanaya is a tale subtly knitted with different shades of gruesome politics. Decorated with the beauty of romance between Rahula thero and pricencess Lokanatha, the author reminds the clichéd “All is fair in love and war” in a sumptuous manner where th...