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creative career. Basil believes that the mission of poetry is narrating the nation; narrating the reality; the nation of the poorest majority of the people. His faith is in the ethics of imagination. The idyllic landscape, the nuanced narrative, the resonant image is absent in Basil's poetry. Using straight and steady masculine linguistic structure in his poems, Basil opts to be a confident narrator of the times he witnesses, and a credible reporter of the cultural roots-spread beneath human relations we are tactfully farming. Basil believes that knowing the hard realities would alarm people. He dislikes allowing sleeping or dead words to ride on the horses of his poems.
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Resource Centre (ALRC) from 1994 to July 2010 and now continues with the same organisation as their
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He has also published short stories. Several of his stories were published in Japan by Le Roy
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and caste discrimination. He is also writer of numerous articles and opinion columns. He wrote a weekly UPI column from 2007 to 2009 and writes regularly other publications such as the Sri Lanka
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Professor K.G. Sankara Pillai, a well known Indian poet, sums up the spirit of Basil
Fernando's poems thus: "Basil Fernando belongs to another breed of poets. Basil is delighted to tell stories. Through those stories he releases the dilemmas of our dreadful time and reveals his priorities in a
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Charter. In his work he emphasises the need to develop ideas around
Article 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and political Rights (ICCPR). He is a Senior Asoska Fellow and a Sohmen Visitor at the Faculty of Law, of The
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