Chitrasena dance troupe performs a tribute to Vajira Chitrasena, on her first death anniversary. It’s next weekend, but tickets are almost sold out.
This week’s Chart reminds us that women’s work is still largely at home. Not so their art. Narratives of Muslim Women features Munira Mutaher — see her photos in this week’s Examination. The Gender and History workshop is packed with film screenings, discussions, and a museum tour. If our bathroom story made you think of the pressure cities impose on women, the tad slow but moving All We Imagine as Light, will make you feel them.
Disrupt Asia’s speakers aren’t bad: the founders of PayTM, unusually the Tamil Nadu government, and Sri Lanka’s own Rajan Anandan. It’s sold out, but maybe you can sneak in. BCIS also has a talk on the politics of international trade
For the nostalgic, Sound of Music returns to Colombo for its 60th anniversary. For those looking to the ‘morrow, Rajani Serasinghe shares her upcycling art process.
We’re all about slow reporting, but we understand that sometimes love has to come fast, as it might at this speed dating event on Sunday.
What to read
AI is fluent in English, but speaks smaller languages less well. Research from Cornell University interrogates the accuracy of 26 Sinhala large language models.
Ravindranath Dabare, in a novel argument before the Supreme Court, reasons that the government fails to shield us from climate change. If he wins, we may have constitutional claims to environmental rights.
Speaking of the courts, vengeance or justice? Uditha Devapriya and Rumeth Jayasinghe analyse Ranil Wickremsinge’s arrest. Meanwhile, asset declarations are out — politicians, judges and ambassadors. Let us know if you find anything juicy!
For migrant workers, coming back is sometimes just as hard as leaving, notes this Colombo University study.
Thanks to VAT we’re en route to meeting our revenue targets. But Thathsarani Siriwardana concisely warns us against focussing solely on revenue over growth. CBSL, meanwhile, released its banking sector risk survey.
We’re batting decently on our economic targets, but not in the cricket stadium. Andrew Fidel gets into the weeds of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh’s poor T20 batting performance. Pitches, he says, have much to answer for.
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