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TOPICALITY

Sri Lanka / France


CULTURE

Books

Cinema

Dance

Exhibition

Heritage

Literature

Music

Photography

Poetry

Spirituality

Travellers

DOSSIERS

Fascination of the body

Paul Cézanne

Lumière de Gauguin

Globalization

Victor Hugo

Jean de La Fontaine

Languages

Malraux / Segalen

Picasso-Rodin

Pigeon houses

Raphael

Saint-Exupéry
Van Gogh & Gauguin

SOCIETY

Abortion

AIDS

Death Penalty

Mental Health


GALLERY

Frantisek Kupka

Miniatures of Kangra

Raphael


ARCHIVES


INDEX

Ando, Tadao

Badinter, Robert

Beurdeley, Cécile

Boecklin, Arnold

Bawa, Geoffrey

Bourdelle, Antoine

Cader, Muhanned

Cameron, Julia Margaret

Camus, Albert

Cézanne, Paul

Chitrasena and Vajira

Dimitri, Olga

Dissanayake, S.

Estève, Maurice

Fernando, Winitha

Giacometti, Alberto

Gunatillake, Kingsley

Handagama, Ashoka

Hugo, Victor

Jayasundara, Vimukthi

Keyt, George

Khemadasa, Premasiri

La Fontaine, Jean de

Lahor, Jean

Maire, André

Malraux, André

Matisse, Henri

Merton, Thomas

Nadar

Nair, Meera

Ondaatje, Michael

Palliyaguruge, Thilak

Perera, Anoli

Picasso, Pablo

Pieris, Lester

Raphael

Ransonnet, Eugene de

Ratnayake, Bennet

Ratnayake, Pradeep

Rodin, Auguste

Saint-Exupéry, A. de

Segalen, Victor

Semage, Jayasiri

Sieff, Jeanloup

Silva, Jayamini de

Vithanage, Bandula

Vithanage, Prasanna

Wendt, Lionel

Wijewardene, Anoma

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Heritage 


     

The Mystique of Sigiriya Whispers of the Mirror Wall
by W.J.M.Lokubandara

Godage International publisher, 2008
ISBN: 9789553006103

It is not often recognized that ‘some of the most astonishing documents in the ancient world are the Sigiri graffiti (Prof. Senake Bandaranayake)

  • Godage  

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  • Heritage 


        

    Tovil - Exorcism & healing rites
    by Bruce Kapferer, Georges Papigny

    Viator Publications (Pvt) Ltd, Negombo, 2005
    ISBN: 955-8736-06-6

  • Viator  

  • Books  

  • Gérard Rondeau 


       


    GERARD RONDEAU
    Hors-cadre

    Réunion des Musées Nationaux
    October 2005
    ISBN 2711849821

    Gérard Rondeau has been photographing museums and temporary exhibitions for 15 years, particularly those in Paris and at the Galeries Nationales. The photos reflect not only artistic works, visitors and buildings, but also the secret and meticulous behind-the-scenes activities which accompany the display of great works of art, examining the contrast between separated, institutionalised and grandiose art and the bustling life that surrounds it.

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  • Music / cd 

        


    LIRICHE DA TAGORE
    FRANCO ALFANO

        


    Sri Lanka
    "Ceylon's Drum Masters & Healers"  

        


    South India
    O. K. SUBRAMANIAM
    "Nâgaswaram
    in the Carnatic tradition"


        


    "Sambho Mahadeva"
    Vina / South India

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  • SRI LANKA


    "SURIYAKANTHA" CAC
    Center for Art and Culture


    Pics Prasanna Upajeewa

    FOR ANY INFORMATION OR VISIT OF THE CENTRE

    PLEASE CALL
    (00)94 81 2315544 / 2315545

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    ------------------------------------------------------------THEATRE / ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE KANDY

    Mark Amerasinghe’s eleventh monodrama
    ‘Look Back in Love’

    According to Grecian legend, Orpheus, that celebrated musician of Thrace, followed his recently dead wife, Eurydice, to the other world and obtained her release on one strict condition. He must not turn back, to take even a fleeting glimpse of his beloved, until they were both safely home. Unfortunately, Orpheus did look back and he lost Eurydice for evermore.

    On 23 September at 6.30 pm, in the Alliance Francaise de Kandy, Mark Amerasinghe presents, a monodrama - an adaptation of his translation of Jean Cocteau’s original script of the black and white French film Orphée (screened in 1950) .

    In Cocteau’s modern version ,while the young lovers finally rejoin each other to live happily ever after in this world, Orpheus is a celebrated poet,[some Greek sources consider Orpheus both the leading poet and musician of his time] hated by the avant-garde and feminists of the day; and Other World characters, not mentioned in the original legend, are introduced...




    FRANCE

    Focus on India





  • PARLIER-RENAULT, EDITH (DIR.)
    L'Art indien,
    PU PARIS SORBONNE (2010).

    ISBN-10: 2840507021.






    Très riches et très diverses, l'architecture, la sculpture et la peinture de l'Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est offrent aussi une indéniable unité : elles véhiculent les valeurs et les significations liées au bouddhisme et au brahmanisme, nés tous deux en Inde.
  • Cette présentation de l'art indien est divisée en deux grandes parties, la première consacrée à l'Inde, à Sri Lanka et au Népal, la seconde à l'Asie du Sud-Est, où les thèmes et les formes élaborées en Inde ont donné lieu à partir du VIe siècle environ à des développements spécifiques. Le livre suit une progression chronologique, depuis les premières oeuvres d'art apparues dans les sites de l'Indus (2 300-1 750 env. av. J.-C.), jusqu'à la période contemporaine et retrace les grandes étapes de l'histoire de l'art en Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est. Accompagné de nombreuses illustrations, d 'un index et d'un glossaire, il permet au lecteur de s'initier à l'une des grandes civilisations du monde, encore vivante aujourd'hui.


    Paris / Centre Pompidou

  • PARIS-DELHI-BOMBAY / 25 MAY - 5 SEPTEMBER


    IMAGES DE L'INDE

    Paris - Delhi - Bombay..., an exhibition that invites to discover the modern Indian society through the eyes of Indian and French artists, with the ambition to generate exchanges and to create lasting links between the two cultures, the two artistic scenes.

    Paris / Musée Guimet

  • RINA BANERJEE / 25 MAY - 26 SEPTEMBER


    CHIMERAS OF INDIA AND THE WEST

    As part of its spring-summer 2011 Indian Season the Musée Guimet is presenting “Chimeras of India and the West”, an exhibition of contemporary work by the Indian-born American artist Rina Banerjee. Installed at the heart of the permanent collections, Banerjee’s hybrid, poetic compositions enter into resonant interplay with the works held by the museum, which date back hundreds and thousands of years, offering a new angle on Asian civilisations and their complex relations with the West.

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    Fascinating Orient

    Lyon

    MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS
    Till 4 July 2011

    The Genius of the Orient, modern Europe
    and the arts of Islam

    Marseille

    CENTRE DE LA VIEILLE CHARITE
    From 27 May to 28 August 2011

    Orientalism in Europe
    From Delacroix to Matisse

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    Dictionnaire des langues

    Conçu pour témoigner de la diversité des langues du monde, ce dictionnaire présente près de 200 langues, familles ou sous-familles de langues, regroupées géographiquement par continent. Il résulte de la collaboration de 151 auteurs, universitaires ou chercheurs, français ou étrangers. La majorité des langues décrites sont issues d une recherche de première main, réalisée par des auteurs, pionniers ou premiers descripteurs de la langue qu'ils traitent.

  • Edited by Alain Peyraube
    Presses Universitaires de France - PUF (17 November 2010)
    Collection : Quadrige
    Language: French
    ISBN-10: 9782130569145
    ISBN-13: 978-2130569145
    ASIN: 2130569145





  • ASIAN ENGLISHES Beyond the Canon
    by Braj B. Kachru
    Hong Kong University Press

    The Asian region comprises the largest English-knowing population in the world: the estimated users of English in India and China alone comprise over 533 million people. This book provides crucial reading for students and researchers of world Englishes in the Asian context. It is an insightful and provocative study of the users and uses of English in Asia, its acculturation, nativization and innovative dimension of Asian creativity. It contextualizes a variety of theoretical, applied and ideological issues with refreshing interpretations and re-evaluations.

    The issues are specifically addressed to Asia but have relevance to all English-using students and researchers. The book also includes an extensive bibliography representing pedagogical, theoretical and historical resources. This volume can be used as a text or a resource book for graduate and undergraduate courses in English studies, Asian Englishes, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, critical linguistics, post-colonial studies and ELT.
    It was in a spirit of brotherhood that the Bengali Nobelist Rabindranath Tagore, upon arriving at the port of Jakarta in 1927, remarked, "I see India everywhere, but I do not recognize it." In this light, an Inner Circle anglophone in Asia who says "I see English everywhere, but I do not recognize it" should not be presumed arrogant.
    Martin Schell (Asia Times - Jan 28, 2006)

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    LE CONTE DE LA GRANDE VAGUE
    Author(s) : Clémence Lafarge, Zaü
    Publisher : Le Baron Perché

    "Au huitième jour, Perle et sa famille arrivèrent tard sur la plage, car la nuit, il y avait eu beaucoup de vent. Ils avaient commencé une partie de cache-cache et s'amusaient énormément quand une énorme vague, venue de très loin, arriva en grondant. Elle se recourba et roula sur le sable, avec fracas, brisant et emportant tout sur son passage. C'était comme un gros soufflet qui en un instant pulvérisait tout."

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    Orient - Occident
    1200-1700
    Hespèrion XXI
    Dir: Jordi Savall
    Reference : AVSA9848 - 7619986398488

    A dialogue of souls...

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    romesh gunesekera
    the match
    March 20, 2006
    Publisher: Bloomsbury
    ISBN: 0747578583


    As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket. But, none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arrived with her impeccable timing. The year was 1971, a year for an extraordinary match.
    Three decades on, Sunny is now settled in London with a teenage son of his own. But, despite the quiet comfort of his life, he feels unmoored. Trying to reconnect with his past, he goes to watch the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team play at the Oval. As the sun goes down at the end of the match, he discovers that love, like cricket, is more than just a game. He sees one last chance to get his life into focus, if only there is time.
    From the acclaimed author of "Reef" and "Heaven's Edge", "The Match" is a moving, funny family story of finding home and coming home, of cricket, growing up and falling in love.

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  • ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TRAVEL

    Récits du dernier siècle des voyages
    De Victor Segalen à Nicolas Bouvier

    Even if the "travel literature" retains a good position in the field of research as well as in the heart of many readers, the XXth Century's writtings are not really the object of criticism by scholars.
    Nevertheless, this century has been enriched by many prestigious writters : Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Morand, André Gide, Joseph Kessel, Blaise Cendrars, Michel Leiris, Henri Michaux, Raymond Roussel, Valery Larbaud, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Butor, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Jacques Lacarrière, Jacques Réda, Nicolas Bouvier, etc.

  • Olivier Hambursin
    Presses Université Paris-Sorbonne
    May 2005
    Collection Imago Mundi, number 10
    ISBN 2840503565
  • Victor Segalen  
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    Tales of Kalila and Dimna: Classic Fables from India

    About the Book New renderings of classic Indian folk epics from the 2000-year-old Fables of Bidpai. These timeless, charming, and humorous tales have survived through the centuries and have resurfaced in most of our popular moral fables. These tales have received the highest praise from authors of some of the world's finest literature. The tales of Kalila and Dimna from the Fables of Bidpai originated almost 2000 years ago in a Sanskrit collection of animal stories called the Panchatantra.
    These charming and humorous stories have found their way in one form or another into the folklore of every major culture and tradition. They have influenced all our fables from Aesop to La Fontaine, including Uncle Remus, The Arabian Nights, and The Canterbury Tales.
    Publisher: Inner Traditions International (Mar 2000)
    Language English
    ISBN-10: 0892818166
    ISBN-13: 978-0892818167


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    L'Inde et le monde contemporain
    Histoire des relations internationales de 1947 à nos jours

    Michel Pousse
    Year : 2009
    Publisher : L'harmattan
    ISBN : 2296073352

    Une histoire de l'Inde
    Les Indiens face à leur passé

    Éric-Paul Meyer
    Professor and Vice-Président de l'Inalco

    Année : 2007
    Editeur : Albin Michel
    ISBN : 2226173099

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    Théâtre de l'Inde ancienne

    The discovery of the Indian Theatre, in the 1780s, originates from the obstination and the chance of a British, William Jones, who was convinced, in spite of the denegations of Brahmins and scholars, of the existence of chronicles about the history of the country. It was only informed about the existence of "collections of conversations", without giving more details. But one day, a Brahman accepted to give to him one of these "dialogues" - in reality, a play and an immense chef-d'oeuvre : Sakuntala. Immediately, William Jones translated this play into English with a considerable and lasting impact in Europe.
    Publisher : GALLIMARD - PLEIADE BIBLIOTHEQUE
    Date of issue : 03/2006
    207011435X




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    Tel : 01 45 44 72 30


  • "Confessions to a lens"

    An unusual wandering...

    Jayasena Jayakody 


    "Et Siddharta devint Bouddha"
    Jayasena Jayakody

    Translation in French
    from Sinhalese by
    Venerable Mandawala Pannawansa Thera


    Publisher: Editions Prajna - collection "Lignée" (08/2005)

    Jayasena Jayakody's "Amavessa", the popular novel based on the life of the Gautama Buddha has been translated into the French language.

  • And also

  • Viragaya
    ou le non-attachement
    Martin Wickramasinghe
    Translation in French
    from Sinhalese by
    Venerable Mandawala Pannawansa Thera


    Editions L'Harmattan
    ISBN : 273843486X

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  • Ram Prasad 


    Pub.: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
    August 25, 2005
    ISBN: 0297847449

    "The time has come for global philosophy to move beyond the model where the West is at the centre of radiating spokes of comparison".

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  • Buddhism and Sexuality 


    The Red Thread
    Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality
    Bernard Faure


    Publisher: Princeton University Press
    ISBN: 0691059977

    In this study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality.

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  • Tarun J. Tejpal 


    Publisher: Pan MacMillan
    (April 30, 2005)
    ISBN: 033043554X

    Set against the brilliantly drawn backdrop of India at the turn of the millennium, The Alchemy of Desire tells the story of a young couple, penniless but gloriously in love. This is a major novel by one of the most significant new voices of his generation.

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  • Shyam Selvadurai 


    "Swimming in the Monsoon Sea"
    Shyam Selvadurai


    Tundra Books
    (September 13, 2005)
    ISBN: 0887767354

    Shyam Selvadurai's brilliant novels, "Funny Boy and "Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim.
    In this, his first young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor, and compassion.

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  • Bama 


    SANGATI
    Events
    Bama Faustina
    Lakshmi Holmstrom (Translator)

    February 2005
    Publisher: OUP India
    ISBN : 0195670884

    Sangati is a book about a community's identity, and ends on a personal note: that Paraiya women are always the most vulnerable, even when educated, independent, and living alone, like Bama herself.

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  • Samina Ali


    Madras on Rainy Days
    Samina Ali

    Publisher: Piatkus Books
    ISBN : 0749935677

    Set against the backdrop of the ancient walled city of Hyderabad and mounting Hin- du-Muslim tensions, "Madras on rainy days" lyrically evokes the complexities of life behind the chador.
    It is a gorgeously written novel by an original new voice in international fiction.

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