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Check out Shane’s latest thoughts from his blog.
How the Novel travelled through the internet with me in tow
Every time there is a seismic shift in taste, technology or time-availability, pundits say the novel is dead. And yet this hefty tome that demands
Have Publishers Outsourced Their Slush Piles to Literary Agents?
It is now a given that you can’t submit work to a major publisher without going through a literary agent, for there are no more
Lament of a Forgotten Son
My heart mourns for Sri Lanka today when I see the pictures of lineups for gasoline and food, and the mass protests on Galle Face
Occupy Ottawa
This article was turned down by my regular publications when submitted in late February, for there was uncertainty about its reception. Then other geopolitical events
Do Sanctions Work? Cuba Begs to Differ
The West has launched economic warfare on Russia with its severest sanctions yet, in the hope that they would cripple the country faster and with
Stuck in a rut
The last two years of hibernation have taken their toll on everyone’s life. This forced change came at a time when lifestyle was going to
I used to be a good Canadian – not anymore, it appears
I remember when I took my oath of citizenship thirty years ago. After searching for more than thirty years prior to that, I had finally
A year of incongruency – why?
As this year winds down, I am left wondering about some of the incongruent happenings in the world around me, some of which I have
Is this Pandemic a Poor Person’s Disease?
This is possibly the last article I will be writing about the pandemic. For any others written from this point on can only be categorized
The Undecided Voter
At every election, like the one just passed, I begin to wonder about these guys, the UVs—the X factor that can swing an election from
The Best Country in the World to Live In?
(This article was previously published in the Sri Lankan Anchorman newspaper – July edition) I remember the slick reports in magazines like Macleans that first
The Reopening – what happens now?
The number of vaccinated are starting to outnumber those who are not sporting a punctured arm (or who refuse to get pricked). Very soon, if
Talking to Orwell about Book Reviewing
These days in retirement, I have idle talks with myself, and sometimes with famous literary personalities I wish I had met. This particular conversation was
There’s an App for That – even for Fiction
There’s an app for everything these days. For searching, shopping, information, books, car maintenance, home decoration, clothing, cooking, domestic help, medical care, even sex –
The Seven Rs of Pandemic Writing
Everyone is writing a pandemic journal, it seems. We all want to capture this lost time that will soon disappear (we hope) when the vaccine
Accepting Change
I have been wrestling with why, with all the resources available to us, this pandemic still rages, and now in Wave 2 (or is it
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