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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-23/
- Published: 2026-03-13T05:31:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-13T06:36:27.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-10-2026

“No one cares” about opera and ballet anymore, pronounced Chalamet, that adonis of our time. In Colombo at least, the cosmos strikes back: writers, catch the Gratien Trust’s [Creativity in Writing](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVqxUKpiuq2/?ref=examiner.media) lecture this evening, and Lakmahal’s [author talk](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVcq2%5FtF3CL/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) with Savin Edirisighe on Saturday. 

Thespians, [The Woman in Black](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVQIk94ilE8/?ref=examiner.media) is back for three days. On Saturday, the stage is also set for a [watch party ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVst9FeGKdh/?ref=examiner.media)of the National Theatre’s *The Importance of Being Earnest*. No need to indulge in bunburying: as [art clerb](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVqSWdxCJ%5F4/?ref=examiner.media) in the park will see you though those tricky social situations. If your knickers are still in a twist, [tie-dye](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVfeB5sjNjQ?ref=examiner.media) them. [Open House Colombo](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVIYuyVDtmS/?ref=examiner.media) is also selling out fast, as we’re sure will the wares at this Ramadan [toy pop-up](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVkfixEgAsX/?ref=examiner.media). 

Forsake the colonizer’s tongue on Sunday and let your subaltern speak: [*kavi liyamu*](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVdFbYjl3J6/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media)*,* a Sinhalese poetry workshop*.* If not, on the ides of March; a [Sinhala adaptation ](https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1519934953467710&set=a.396806099113940)of *Julius Caesar* at Elphinstone is on the cards. Evening is for drinks and [board games](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVixK8tiAJa/?ref=examiner.media).

The *babas* aren’t forgotten! Saturday is a [rain stick \[no we don’t know what that means\] workshop ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVc0%5FNTDLGF/?img%5Findex=6&ref=examiner.media)at the Bawa Trust, and the [art competition ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVoUGTRiP6A/?ref=examiner.media)at Havelock City spans the weekend. 

Pop by Barefoot gallery for [Alakhshya](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVahyw9kuUq/?ref=examiner.media). Exhibitions continue at [Saskia Fernando](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVfewQiiEz1/?ref=examiner.media) and [Paradise Road](https://www.instagram.com/p/DUngmI8DP8B/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media).

Did you know ‘the Middle East’ is the colonizer coinage? On Wednesday, [decolonize](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P%5FFTqFthIDPdRmjBgb9vWOI-stAFepC0/view?usp=sharing&ref=examiner.media) social sciences and humanities. Conclude with the last Ways of Knowing [tour](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVc0%5FNTDLGF/?img%5Findex=7&ref=examiner.media) on Thursday, followed by [Gini’s tour of the Galapagos](https://www.instagram.com/p/DVayy7jk6ok/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media).

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*What to read*

Which law governs what, when it comes to the oceans, is murky waters for us laymen. Consider Just Security’s exceedingly helpful [breakdown](https://www.justsecurity.org/133397/sinking-iran-frigate-dena-law-naval-warfare/?ref=examiner.media) of the IRIS Dena incident, what it says for [Sri Lanka](https://open.substack.com/pub/apologyforanthropology/p/power-and-humanity), and a Stanford sages’ [take](https://law.stanford.edu/2026/03/03/stanfords-allen-weiner-on-the-constitutional-and-international-law-questions-raised-by-the-iran-attack/?ref=examiner.media) on the war at large.

Meanwhile, closer to home, everything from the Domestic Violence Act to labour is covered in the latest [Polity](https://x.com/Polity%5FLK/status/2031680141693526421?s=20&ref=examiner.media). Adding to the diversity is a literature review [examining ](https://ijisem.com/journal/index.php/ijisem/article/view/471/437?ref=examiner.media)menopause specifically in the context of Sri Lankan women.

O Level examinations just finished. Aptly, a [study](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jehan-Weerasuriya-2/publication/401564536%5FExam-Oriented%5FEducational%5FPressure%5FParental%5FInfluence%5Fand%5FGraduate%5FSkill%5FMismatch%5Fin%5FSri%5FLanka%5FA%5FTechnical%5FPerspective%5Fwith%5FSNGAPI%5FSecure%5FNational%5FGovernment%5FAPI%5FInfrastructure%5Fas%5Fa%5FCase%5FStudy/links/69a8f6b5a91b826e4346ef7c/Exam-Oriented-Educational-Pressure-Parental-Influence-and-Graduate-Skill-Mismatch-in-Sri-Lanka-A-Technical-Perspective-with-SNGAPI-Secure-National-Government-API-Infrastructure-as-a-Case-Study.pdf?ref=examiner.media) on exam-oriented educational pressure, with a side serving of parental influence. From last month, Richard Simon’s [review](https://notesfromceylon.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-cold-cold-fish.html?ref=examiner.media) of a civil servant’s memoirs.