Author: Ama Upeka
Purple Family Assembles Again – FOS Media AGM 2022
As the purple heartbeats synchronized to the single rhythm of ‘fellowship’, the Annual General Meeting of the Official Media Unit of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, commenced ... Read more
Behind The Scenes Of A Panic Attack
As the trembling walls of the hallway cave in, the floor beneath you dances and shakes. The sounds sound different, and the outlines of people and objects dissolve, as you are trapped inside a whorl pool spinning inwards from ... Read more
Love at First Sight
Alzheimer’s: The Memory Parasite
With her fingers wrapped around the wheel, and her eyes planted on the road ahead, she kept driving, and driving, and driving. Lamppost after lamppost, traffic light after traffic light, the road kept growing longer, as the ... Read more
Unwritten Stories Of The Illiterate
When I was 5 years old, my grandfather passed away, leaving nothing but his blurry memories. As I grew older, these memories faded away into the past, until his familiar smell, soft voice and gentle presence made ... Read more
Restore The Planet And Reclaim Our Humanity
Once upon a time ago, we, humans lived in harmony with nature, satisfied with what we were offered and the actions of the Homo sapiens ... Read more
Vesak Poya Day
About 2645 years ago, on a full moon day, in the grounds of the exceptionally beautiful Lumbini Sal Park of the ancient Kapilavasthu, an extraordinary prince in the name of Siddhārtha Gautama was born, where ... Read more