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DCRA Goonetilleke’s Guide to Fiction now out
Building on the companion volumes, Guide to Literary Criticism and Guide to Poetry, this book carries literary education a stage further: it concentrates on fiction. It is meant to train the reader to get to grips with the range and variety of experience as well as the range and variety of forms and styles displayed in fiction from the age of Jane Austen to the present by writers of diverse backgrounds – British, Afro-American, Indian, migrant, and postcolonial. It illuminates the issues they raise, their standpoint, language and techniques they adopt, as shaped by the periods and countries in which they lived. The examples are taken from stories and novels prescribed in examination syllabuses for the G.C.E. Ordinary Level as well as Advanced Level, also for university examinations.
Guide to Fiction is essential reading for success-oriented students. It is also addressed to teachers as a means of enabling them to guide students. It will also prove rewarding to readers and writers of literature in English Sinhala and Tamil, and, indeed, to all those interested in the use of words – by sensitizing responses to language and by widening horizons.
D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kelaniya, was Foundation Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Henry Charles Chapman Visiting Fellow, University of London; and Guest Professor at the University of Tubingen, West Germany. A well-established critic of twentieth century and postcolonial literature, and the leading authority on Sri Lankan English literature, his books in print include Images of the Raj: South Asia in the Literature of Empire (Macmillan, 1988), Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (Routledge, 2007), Salman Rushdie (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd ed 2010) and Sri Lankan English Literature and the Sri Lankan People 1917-2003 (Colombo: Vijitha Yapa, 2nd ed 2007). He has edited Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (Canada: Broadview Press, 3rd ed 2020), Kaleidoscope: An Anthology of Sri Lankan English Literature Vols 1 &2 (Vijitha Yapa, 2007, 2010). ((Sarasavi, 2023) Rs. 1,200/)
The Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) TAIMUR and ASLAT arrived at the Port of Colombo on a goodwill visit on 12 Apr 26.
The visiting ships were welcomed by the Sri Lanka Navy in
compliance with naval traditions.
The duo of ships is commanded by Captain NIAMAT SAEED KHAN (PNS TAIMUR) and Captain NADIR MATEEN AFRIDI (PNS ASLAT).
Meanwhile, the ships are expected to conduct a Bilateral Naval Exercise LION STAR V with the Sri Lanka Navy in Colombo seas.
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Heat index likely to increase up to ‘Caution level’ at some places in the Northern, North-central, North-western, Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and Eastern provinces and Monaragala district
Warm Weather Advisory
Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre at 3.30 p.m. on 11 April 2026, valid for 12 April 2026
The Heat index, the temperature felt on the human body is likely to increase up to ‘Caution level’ at some places in the Northern, North-central, North-western, Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and Eastern provinces and Monaragala district.
The Heat Index Forecast is calculated by using relative humidity and maximum temperature and this is the condition that is felt on your body. This is not the forecast of maximum temperature. It is generated by the Department of Meteorology for the next day period and prepared by using global numerical weather prediction model data.
Effect of the heat index on human body is mentioned in the above table and it is prepared on the advice of the Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medical Services.
ACTION REQUIRED
Job sites: Stay hydrated and takes breaks in the shade as often as possible.
Indoors: Check up on the elderly and the sick.
Vehicles: Never leave children unattended.
Outdoors: Limit strenuous outdoor activities, find shade and stay hydrated.
Dress: Wear lightweight and white or light-colored clothing.
Note: In addition, please refer to advisories issued by the Disaster Preparedness & Response Division, Ministry of Health in this regard as well. For further clarifications please contact 011-7446491.
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Sun directly overhead Cheddikulam, Kebithigollewa, Gomarankadawala and Nilaveli about 12:11 noon. today [12]
On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri Lanka from 05th to 15th of April in this year.
The nearest areas of Sri Lanka over which the sun is overhead today (12th) are Cheddikulam, Kebithigollewa, Gomarankadawala and Nilaveli about 12:11 noon.
PNS TAIMUR & ASLAT arrive in Colombo
Sanju Samson and Jamie Overton deliver first points for Chennai Super Kings
Arya, Prabhsimran and Shreyas help Punjab Kings ace another 200-plus chase
Beauty of Sri Lanka in focus: Global showcase blends art, diplomacy and conservation
Showers expected in the Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, Southern, North-western and Uva provinces and in Ampara, Batticaloa and Polonnaruwa districts after 1.00 p.m.
Heat index likely to increase up to ‘Caution level’ at some places in the Northern, North-central, North-western, Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and Eastern provinces and Monaragala district
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