Episode 26

Ep. 26: Sigiriya (5th Century AD)

Sigiriya is a UNESCO World Heritage site from the 5th Century. Find out about King Kasyapa and this magnificent palace on top of a rock.

Thanks to the following:

* My colleague Viktor Djupsjöbacka

* My brother Harsha Wijayawardhana

* ElevenLabs for creating a voice clone of my father

Other links:

* About Sigiriya on Wikipedia

* About the Mahavamsa from which I quote

* And finally, enjoy some music!


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Duleepa Wijayawardhana

It started with late nights, glue sticks, and a university newspaper / radio.

That early obsession with how words reach people took me from student journalism to a career spanning the globe. I’ve gone from designing newspapers and having radio shows to building systems at BioWare (yes, the RPG legends), managing data at MySQL, and now leading tech at Supermetrics in Helsinki.

But at my core, I’m still that geek who believes writing is just code for the human mind.

While a computer chip executes code exactly, your imagination runs stories based on your own unique wiring. Tales under the cat tree is where we run those programs together. Whether we're exploring the fiction that inspires us or the tech that defines us, my goal is to spark your imagination and—most importantly—never make you go "meh."

Words create the worlds we live in. Let's explore them.