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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-27/
- Published: 2026-04-10T06:16:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-10T06:16:22.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-14-2026

Artemis II has flown off to space – *the Examiner*, too, is flying off on vacation. Diary covers the whole fortnight to sustain our readers while we’re beached. Feeling adventurous? Fly the coop and escape Colombo’s furnace with [Border Adventures ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWVNZ5mklFm/?ref=examiner.media)or [Extreme Adventures](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWG5Yt9kjM3/?ref=examiner.media). 

Or enjoy Colombo at its best, when the madding crowd have departed, and indulge yourself in [Once Upon a Time](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWqo00LDWw0/?ref=examiner.media) at Saskia’s gallery or [Nocturne ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWwFn3bje6Z/?ref=examiner.media)at the not-so-Radicle. 

This evening, a [bookish](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWl-NWFlzG0/?ref=examiner.media) quiz night for your bookworm friend. Saturday brings a summer camp classic – but [French](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWnc4elj3J-/?ref=examiner.media). Also a celestial [memory walk](https://www.instagram.com/p/DW3Wk6wkuT7/?ref=examiner.media). 

Neelira, set in Jaffna during the IPKF’s sojourn, somehow slipped past the censor board and screens at [PVR](https://lk.bookmyshow.com/movies/neelira/ET00006040?ref=examiner.media). [India Toda](https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/reviews/story/neelira-review-someetharan-anti-war-film-a-portrait-of-war-human-cost-naveen-chandra-2890624-2026-04-02?ref=examiner.media)y calls it “quietly devastating”. Here are the [Indian Express](https://www.cinemaexpress.com/tamil/review/2026/Apr/03/neelira-movie-review-a-wedding-a-war-and-a-wounded-history?ref=examiner.media) and [Galataplus](https://galattaplus.com/someetharans-neelira-is-a-tight-tense-drama-about-sri-lankan-tamils-during-the-war/?ref=examiner.media) reviews. 

The city blooms again the weekend after the new year, with [Tree of Life ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DW5jQdqkpbe/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media)opening at Barefoot and a [little-cared-for](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/little-do-i-care-in-person-walkthrough-and-conversation-tickets-1986518337824?ref=examiner.media) walkthrough at Saskia. The cat-and-mouse psycho-thriller, [*Welikathara*](https://www.instagram.com/p/DW0s8TnGiQu/?ref=examiner.media), screens at Scope. On Saturday, [Kelir](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWituZzjJyz/?ref=examiner.media) for those that jam in Tamil. Or cosplay a Jane Austen character at a [reading picnic](https://www.instagram.com/p/DW5oEOSFEyj/?ref=examiner.media). Sunday is for [tabletop games](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWrC7k1j4g-/?ref=examiner.media). 

[Dharshana](https://www.instagram.com/p/DW59ZYuGMhs/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==) makes charcoal grey look colourful at Paradise Road Gallery. A French feminist [film](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWnqmyzDx43/?ref=examiner.media) follows the friendship of two women. Or if you prefer that your women characters be more than friends, a [queer](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWqsaCODUhr/?ref=examiner.media) reading club.

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**L'une chante, l'autre pas*

*What to read*

Himal studies Sri Lankan [education reforms](https://www.himalmag.com/politics/free-education-reform-sri-lanka-kannangara?ref=examiner.media), and South Asia’s [media freedom crisis](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWyk9Wnkdy7/?ref=examiner.media). They ought to know something about it. They’ve got [first hand](https://www.himalmag.com/editorial/editorialstatement-himal-vantara-contempt-case?ref=examiner.media) experience. 

Violence leaves a lasting footprint and our war is not an exception, argues [The Hindu](https://archive.is/20260403023613/https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-long-and-lingering-shadow-of-war/article70817114.ece?ref=examiner.media). Nishan de Mel says we need a [development plan](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/sri-lanka-needs-a-development-plan-not-just-a-recovery-narrative/?ref=examiner.media), not just a tale of recovery. 

Last but not least, mapping Sri Lanka’s place in the world is the very first volume of [Lanka Dispatch](https://www.arutharesearch.org/post/lanka-dispatch-issue-01-vol-01?ref=examiner.media).