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Aspects of Sinhalese Culture
0රු325It is…. Refreshing to find someone like the Author who can keep his head cool while talking about Sinhalese culture. V. S. in The book world
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Buddhism and Culture
0රු325The author points out that the decay of this beautiful congregational worship, and the undue importance given to the study of dogmatic philosophy, are incompatible with Buddhism, which is the path for the religious wayfarer.
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Kaliyugaya – The Age of Kali
0රු350Kaliyugaya is the second part of Martin Wickramasinghe’s Uprooted trilogy consisting of Gamperaliya, Kaliyugaya and Yuganthaya.
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Landmarks of Sinhalese Literature – Martin Wickramasinghe
0රු500“A masterly survey of the vicissitudes of our language. It is a great literary achievement and one that ought to influence deeply the modern writers of our language at this time.”
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Madol Doowa – Martin Wickramasinghe
0රු250Martin Wickramasinghe’s novel Madol Doova has been read, re-read and loved by generatioms of Sri Lankans in its original Sinhala as well in Tamil and English translations. During the half a century since it was first published in 1947, over a million copies have been printed. It has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Dutch, Rumanian, Czech Bulgarian and Japanese languages and published in these respective countries.
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On Culture And Civization – Martin Wickramasinghe
0රු650“Culture is the sum total of learned behavior patterns which are characteristic of the members of a society or a community…..
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On Religion, Society And Politics – Martin Wickramasinghe
0රු800“Beneath seeming differences there is a core of unity in all cultures. Unless we develop our critical insight too understand this core, we are in danger of becoming either narrow and superficial nationalists or superficial cosmopolitans.”
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Revolution And Evolution
0රු160This collection of essays presents some interesting observations, ideas and views of the renowned Sri Lanka writer Martin Wickramasinghe.
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Selected Short Stories
0රු250“Wickramasinghe can be compared to a generation of self-educated writers from village, rural, or regional origins who have brought about the modernization of their national literatures: Faulkner in the USA Ramos in Brazil, di Lampedusa in Italy. Through a direct approach to colloquial language and the reintroduction of popular themes, such writers have tried to bring their national literatures into line, in an imaginative way, with the social reality…… ”
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