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He has authored a number of books dealing with subjects related to economics and policy management. ‘THE LIGHT OF ASIA: the poem that defined the Buddha’ reveals an exception to his normal secular ...
About five years later, the poem is at the centre of another kind of reckoning, one that raises questions about artistic ownership, ethics and consent: Aziz alleges lines from his poem were used ...
A team of scientists in China turned to an unusual source to track the population of the Yangtze River’s finless porpoises: ancient poems ... the longest river in Asia and the third longest ...
On May 3, 1810 — 113 years ago today — George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) swam to Asia from Europe. Or at least to Abydos ... But the effort to test the myth’s practicality also led to today’s Poem of ...
He then read his poem, which went something like this ... make a fool of yourself,” a boy at an international school in Asia wrote in a note to me after I visited his school via Zoom.
Budusiritha Lowata Genagiya Maha Kavyaya; Asiyawe Alokaya, the Sinhala translation by Niluka Kadurugamuwa of renowned Indian author Jairam Ramesh’s book “The Light of Asia; the poem that defined the ...
But Jairam’s apparent unfamiliarity with Sinhala has not been an impediment to his understanding of ‘the stunning impact in Ceylon’ that Arnold’s epic poem generated there, a mark of which was the ...
Jairam mentions the fact that the monk had made the first Sinhala translation of the Sanskrit language text ‘Hitopadesha’ or ...