On Friday, get schooled by Nandalal Weerasinghe on economic growth and AI, Uditha Devapriya on Martin Wickremesinghe, or Sumathy Sivamohan on education reforms. Or bunk this adult education, and go for magic box mixup at Cinnamon Life or Satie, Debussy and Piaf at the Alliance Française.
For the failed jocks, the T20 is on at Playtrix, and probably every other bar in Colombo. Three Songs of Ceylon is on until next Wednesday. On Saturday Sandev Handy, the curator, tours it with you. Tired of seeing but never actually buying? Kala Pola opens on Sunday.
A sitar recital on Monday. Also a talk on the cultural expression of boarding houses, and a book launch at ICES on contemporary Sri Lankan literature and art.
If all this art hasn’t redeemed you, perhaps theatre will be your salvation. Wait for Godot till Wednesday. Or counter the creeping valentines mood with Poison, about an estranged, presumably toxic, couple.
On Thursday Inaje Fernando opens his exhibition at Paradise Road, and Sanjiva Wijesinha speaks sails through our nautical history at Lakmahal. Also hear him examined at the Ceylon Literary Festival coming up next week, moderated by our own Mimi.
She dubiously claims clickbait is craft at a separate session on the media. The festival also features everyone’s favourite messy protagonist, Kalki Koechlin, and the inimitable Arundhati Subramanian. Free tickets for students, good luck gaming the system!
Also next week, Valentines Day for the lovers, and Dominic Keller for the jokers.
What to read?
Sticking to our civil service theme this week, view 1930s Ceylon through the eyes of an Indian civil servant. To keep our Lankan ones accountable, Sanjiva Weerawarana has built a software that captures the state’ss ebbs and flows in real time. Meanwhile, a surprise finding from Rifat Mahmud. Turns out, despite the shitshow, we do trust our public institutions quite a bit.
On the policy front, LirneAsia has thoughts on cybersecurity and Verite on the state of the budget. SSA also published its survey findings on public perception to the Ditwah response. The president seems to be everyone’s favourite, not so his party.
An ode from one professor to another, R L Stirrat writes on Gananath Obeysekere. And draw some inspiration from the user-initiated changes made to Tsunami housing.
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