Sad to note, our digestive systems have been too poisoned to absorb him and we neglected taking corrective action. He recognised the bodhisatva gunaya inherent in all of us. I can think of no other historical blunder that can top this. If such an exercise would excite their interest in the first place, of course. It is only in the context of "history" constructed by Eelam mythmakers and their adjuncts that Sekera and others like him get bastardised. He also had his own identity and left a mark in the literary scene that deserved better investigation.
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He also had his own identity and left a mark in the literary scene that deserved better investigation. He dwelled on delicate, human things. If such an exercise would excite their interest in the first place, of course. As a people, we drank deep from the many wells that Sekera dug in his relentless search for humanity and its appropriate location in human matters. If not, is there any other cultural-geographical entity that we can call home?
I believe it is the closest we have to the much sought after "Sukhavathi" of the Buddha Amithabha, metaphorically speaking.
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His canvass was broad, which is why he could affirm the depiction of Samanala Kanda as the spiritual destination of all religious faiths. The tragedy then is that we do not possess the conduits or do not have access to them or the skills to utilise them through which our cultural sensibilities can be made available to our fellow creatures elsewhere in the world.
He was a poet, a lyricist, a dramatist, an artist, a musician and a film maker. Sarachchandra translated a couple of novels into English. Our hearts, we must admit, have been too narrow. Martin Wickramasinghe reserved his English writing to theoretical and philosophical essays. Convention could not entrap him and in form as well as subject his waters spilled over and ran in all directions.
Sad to note, our digestive systems have been too poisoned to absorb him and we neglected taking corrective action. I can think of no other historical blunder that can top this.
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After all, is this not the country of us Sinhala people? In this vast universe, his sensibilities could speak of the Sinhala Rata without being chauvinistic. It is only in the context of "history" constructed by Eelam mythmakers and their adjuncts that Sekera and others like him get bastardised.
Amarasekera, after a brief flirtation with Marxism, perhaps more for its humanistic values than anything else, returned to an active engagement with foundational cultural soils.
He was life-giving and life-affirming.
The vast territory of concerns that he embraced is perhaps what makes people from all points of the political spectrum consider Sekera to be a friend and comrade.
He lamented that the English Departments in our universities have produced hundreds of graduates but very few who are able to appreciate the nuance of language and idiom in Sinhala to a degree that can allow them to translate these into English.
If globalisation implies a "global village" or a "global family" as is often advertised by those who are only interested in globalising poverty and food insecurity on the one hand and expropriating profit appage the other, there has to be in place a mechanism that facilitates cultural cross-currents.
Sekera was essentially a humanist. It is in the journey and not necessarily the destination that we discover self and community, and thereby qualify to imagine futures. And of course afterwards as well. He recognised the bodhisatva gunaya inherent in all of us. Short-sighted and small-minded are the terms that come to mind, for that song did contain the following line: Gunadasa Amarasekera qpage a couple of his short stories into English, I mw.
It sinhqla be that he is untranslatable.
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We have had very few authors who were equally comfortable writing in English and Sinhala. Mahagama Sekera obviously grew in the company of these authors and shared some of their concerns.
Sekera did not deny any community a place in this land. What we have now is a system whereby we are rwtai fast becoming Americans of the worst kind, one could add. His vision, as evident in what I consider to be his great poetical work, "Prabuddha", was for collective enlightenment.
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