When I was a kid, I had to memorize the arithmetical tables, I had to remember important dates in history, and recall key cities in geography that were associated with industries such as coal, gold, manufacturing, tourism and politics. My teachers would inflict all sorts of punishments on me for faulty memory or lack of […]
The Age of Evaluation Read More »
I have often thought about this day and what it would mean for me. I have given up a lot of things with age: cricket, tennis, jogging, rock bands, jet-setting, corporate game-playing, even gym. I have hung onto home exercises, walking, golf and writing, and I know that eventually I will have to give up
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(This article was published in the Sri Lankan Anchorman newspaper in April 2019) Once upon a time, the bombs tolled only for those engaged in conflict; those in wars, those invading others and the invaded responding in like manner, and those trying to sabotage oppressive rulers of a country to gain notoriety or freedom. Now
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How do you describe your occupation? I am a jack-of-all-trades, having had several occupations over 45 years of working life, sometimes several at one time. I am glad I did, for it has kept me gainfully employed right through, barring a six-week patch when I collected unemployment insurance as I had run out of options.
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There was the guy who popped a threatening e-mail into my inbox the other day saying that he’d caught me watching porn by inverting my laptop’s camera to capture my gasps and twitches of ecstasy, and was now going to post the footage for all the world to see if I did not give him
Reproduced here are the Eleven Questions with answers: What inspired you to write fiction? I was always inspired by the parables of Jesus. So much of the world and its complexity was conveyed in a simple story. It was so much easier to digest and retain than something prescriptive from a non-fiction book. When I
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I wrote about Artificial Intelligence (AI) last year, and I am going to revisit it, in fact, I may revisit it many times in future. There have been developments since: General Motors is shutting its traditional production lines in favour of investments in autonomous car technology, algorithms are moving into contextual search rather than key-word
Our Headlong Rush into…what? Read More »
I’ve often written stories in which my principal characters are offered a second chance to get it right. Either a new lover after a relationship went south, a new job after being fired from the previous one, or even a new world after the first one was destroyed. I’ve had all of the above second
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We are so polarized and angry these days that I feel the pain emanating from almost everything I read on my smart phone. Facebook is full of wailing by the left or the right, braggadocio by the right or the left; women are screaming at men, men are defending their right to be men (whatever
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