The Next Pandora’s Box
by Tisaranee Gunasekara-Thursday, August 22, 2013
“Lies are believed amongst every race;
And was any race ever the sole possessor of Truth?”
Abdallah al-Mar’arri (973-1057)1
( August 22, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) When Martin Wickremesinghe’s Bhavatharanaya was first published, some Sinhala-Buddhists (lay and ordained) wanted it banned for ‘insulting’ the Buddha.
There are American Evangelicals who think that Harry Potter books should be prohibited for promoting anti-Christian values.
