Katha.කතා

  • At its mouth, the river regurgitates all the waste dumped into it. I chose this as my key sentence based on a series of photographs I took in mid-2016 at the mouth of the Kelani river, in Mutwal, where the… Continue reading >

  • චෙම්මනි-සිත්තුපාත්තු ස්මාරකයක්

    මූර්තිකරනය වෙනස්ම විශයක්. අකුරු, ලිවීම, රූප වගේ ද්විමාන තලයක වැඩ කරමින් ඉඳල, මූර්තියක සමස්ථ ස්වරූපය එක්ක ගනුදෙනු කරන්න ගියාම අවකාශය ගැන අලුතෙන් හිතන්න වෙනවා. තුන්වන මානයත් එක්ක, වස්තුවක් දකින්න පුලුවන් පැති ගනනාව වගේම, ඒ එක එක පැති වලින් ඒ වස්තුවට… Continue reading >

  • Remembering Chemmani: Sculpture at Sky Gallery

    1. Not a Child’s. A Soldier’s Cement (life-size combat boot) 25 x 11 x 29 cm 2. Remains. A Skull Fiberglass (life-size skull) 20 x 14 x 19 cm 3. Never meant to be. Found. Dolomite, cement, plaster of Paris… Continue reading >

  • Gaya Nagahawatta’s translation titled ‘The Scintillating Darkness Sighted by the Aged Blacksmith’ of the award-winning Sinhala short story by Piyal Kariyawasam was selected as a winner at the Himal Fiction Fest 2026. This is the title story of Kariyawasam’s multiple… Continue reading >

  • Contemporary Sri Lankan works in Pakistani Languages

    Explore ‘Avaaz’ for an exclusive edition of contemporary Sri Lankan literature in Sinhala and Tamil, translated into Pakistani languages. Titled Island Tongues: The Coexisting Literary Voices of Sri Lanka, this brings together five poems by Packiyanathan Ahilan, Eric Illayappaarachchi, Nillanthan,… Continue reading >