In 2012, when the BBC’s Sherlock was all the rage and people were freaking out about the new season, a Sri Lankan Twitter mutual committed a cardinal internet sin. In a series of gushy tweets about the season’s first, long-awaited episode barely an hour after its release, this person —…

Hyperbole is like the internet’s default setting. Almost always, we react to new books, movies, music and TV shows in superlatives. Everything is either omg the best thing ever or worse than the worst. It’s rarely measured. This is not inherently a bad thing, even if it is a little…

It comes with expectations. Even the absence of expectations is an expectation.

I’ve been trying my hand at flash fiction. Rather clumsily, if I’m being honest. The following is part of a writing exercise that only said “write a story, any story, in 250 words or less, that feature the words/ideas ‘jockey’ and ‘coaster’ (or some variation thereof). Bobby didn’t lift his…

If there’s one thing Black Widow (2021) proved beyond a doubt, it’s that the fewer superpowers the protagonists in these movies have, the harder it is for me to suspend my disbelief. I’ll buy that a giant purple dude from space conquered entire planets in search of some magic rocks…

Some people like to defend homophobia in Sri Lanka as a kind of “benign” bigotry, claiming it largely comes from a place of “innocent”…

This is something I wrote as a college assignment some months ago. Reproduced here with some light edits with permission from the lecturer. About halfway into Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s directorial debut Paangshu (‘Earth’), one is struck by a thought that not all is as it seems. Though the film is unambiguously…

Have you ever noticed how time seems to move faster the older you get? Picture this. You’re at the beach. The sun won’t set for another couple of hours, but you don’t mind just staring out to the endless sea. You notice how the cool breeze is offsetting the tropical…

This screenshot was doing the rounds on Twitter the other day.