Texts read & music played

1. Rudyard Kipling: ‘On the Road to Mandalay’
2. Leonard Woolf: ‘Growing’
3. Bizet: Au Fond du Temple Saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)
4. George Bernard Shaw on Ceylon in the 1930s
5. Mathew Arnold: film music for ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’
6. Hermann Hesse: ‘Aufzeichnungen von einer indischen Reise’ (from ‘Aus Indien’)
7. Letter from Hermann Hesse to his friend Haussmann
8. Hermann Hesse: extracts from ‘Siddharta’
9. Kiri Kodu: ‘For Your Love’ (Kinkodu Hithata)
10. Ariyawansa Ranaweera: ‘Rahula Is Born’
11. Michael Ondaatje: ‘Running in the Family’
12. Quotes from Edward Lear, D.H. Lawrence, Leonard Woolf
13. Michael Ondaatje: ‘House on a Red Cliff’
14. Romesh Gunesekera: ‘The Prisoner of Paradise’
15. Shyam Selvadurai: ‘Cinnamon Gardens’
16. Michael Ondaatje: ‘Anil’s Ghost’
17. Bashana Abeywardane: ‘The Window of the Present’
18. ‘Tholvi Nilayewna Ninaithal’,  Tamil song from the film ‘Domai Vizhegal’
19. Packiyanathan Ahilan: ‘A Poem about Your Village and My Village’
20. Abdul Latif Mohammad Rifaz (‘Alari’): ‘All Lifeless’
21. Vinothini: ‘Krishanthy’
22. Jean Arasanayagam: ‘The Poet’
23. Brown Boogie Nation: ‘Lions and Tigers’
24. Nillanthan: ‘Kanji Song’
25. Monica Ruwanpathirana: ‘Wife Lamenting’
26. Sundaresee Sudusinghe: ‘The universe’s rhythm….’
27. Nandana Weerasinghe: ‘Full Moon on a Dewdrop’
28. Anuk Arudpragasam:’ A Passage North’
29. New York Times, March 17, 2025
30. T.S. Eliot: from ‘Little Gidding’ (from ‘Four Quartets’)
31. Rimsky Korsakoff: ‘Scheherazade’ (1st  movement)