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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-30/
- Published: 2026-05-15T07:02:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-15T07:02:50.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-18-2026

This evening Vimukthi Jayasundere’s [*Forsaken Land*](https://www.instagram.com/p/DXwaa00mitx/?ref=examiner.media)and the vivacious Fabienne Francotte’s forever [exhibition](https://www.saskiafernandogallery.com/exhibitions/167/?ref=examiner.media) at Saskia’s. There’s a [Jaffna Food Festival](https://www.facebook.com/events/1297773572314460/?rdid=CP7ufKNtVy0uNp5S&share%5Furl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F1CPtm9hSYq%2F#), but you’re almost certainly better off at the outstanding [*Olai*](https://www.instagram.com/olai.lk/?ref=examiner.media)*.* 

Opt for a socialist sabbath this Sunday with an adaptation of the Soviet [*Guru Geethaya*](https://www.facebook.com/events/1509223323955577/?rdid=qtegWx9LDuYCwAuO&share%5Furl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F1Cq6tLTYmg%2F#)at the Elphinstone. 

Start the week at ICES, where Donald Horowitz abandons coup theories for the [devils in devolution](https://www.ices.lk/event-details/the-devils-in-devolution-a-lecture-by-donald-horowitz?ref=examiner.media). Apparently social media is [no less tricky](https://twitter.com/ambikasat/status/2052960420269531307?ref=examiner.media). There’s the official commemoration of the war’s end and [another](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VbmlnXJYMg72v0THxWJBXAX%5F7T6CXTiI?usp=sharing&ref=examiner.media), different sort of remembrance, at Wellawatte beach. 

A Bawa Trust [talk](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-ecology-in-lumphini-park-a-century-of-green-heritage-tickets-1989358117682?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=examiner.media) on how Bangkok’s public park transformed the city's social, economic, and environmental well-being. Perhaps they should take their own advice and open up the Brief. [Hear](https://www.ids.ac.uk/events/in-conversation-with-the-hon-prime-minister-of-sri-lanka/?utm%5Fsource=linkedin&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcontent=ap%5Frgekqzqrdu) from your prime minister this week. Not from a rally, nor from the telly, but from the Institute of Development Studies. 

Help set Guiness World Record for the longest sensory board at this event to raise [autism](https://www.facebook.com/events/1968114427170456/?rdid=wsHplWX0109D840Z&share%5Furl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F1GUz4xLVBW%2F#) awareness. 

On Thursday, the Wildlife and Nature Society’s [monthly lecture](https://www.facebook.com/wnpssl/posts/nations-trust-wnps-monthly-lectureconservation-in-action-driving-impacthill-coun/1406549698180662/). And then on Friday, a Music Matters [open mic](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYOyQS6RMcL/?igsh=MXF2YXlxejk3ZGxidw%3D%3D&ref=examiner.media). 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/56/2b/562b4f8e-9dd1-43bb-a213-bc1615650661/content/images/2026/05/data-src-image-04335d70-a13c-4f2d-9f37-0609d72c1ed8.png)

Our loony lunar calendar [folly](https://polity.lk/just-a-phase-the-forgotten-lunar-calendar-sharni-jayawardena/?ref=examiner.media) may have just been a temporary touch of the moon, but do the anxieties that led to it persist? The Human Rights Commission wrote to the President, on what [really](https://www.hrcsl.lk/hrcsl-recommends-legislative-reforms-to-strengthen-independence-and-human-rights-protection/?ref=examiner.media) needs to be done to system change. 

Sri Lanka’s leading demographer [explores](https://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking-news/Sri-Lankas-Fertility-Shock-Is-the-Crisis-Real/108-339813?ref=examiner.media) the complexity of our potential fertility collapse. His conclusion: we’re still boning, just later in life. 

[Digitisation pays off](https://www.unescap.org/kp/2026/early-adoption-electronic-bills-lading-evidence-sri-lanka?ref=examiner.media), find IPS researchers.“Is Indian clean energy, cleaner than China’s?”, asks a [paper](https://www.cppr.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sri-Lankas-Renewable-Energy-Sector-Strategic-Balancing-Between-India-and-China-Amid-Geopolitical-Rivalries-.pdf?ref=examiner.media) on Indo-China renewable energy rivalry in Lanka. 

“When elephants fight, the grass suffers” goes the African proverb. But NPR reports on [how elephants suffer](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/09/nx-s1-5809389/mideast-war-worsens-conflict-between-elephants-and-villagers-in-sri-lanka?ref=examiner.media) too. Sri Lanka’s sawfish are now functionally [extinct](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/sawfish-in-sri-lanka-may-be-functionally-extinct-but-refuges-remain/?ref=examiner.media). 

Colpetty vs Kalabola in this [review](https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/hot-butter-cuttlefish-ashok-ferrey-review/article70923659.ece?fbclid=IwY2xjawRyOtVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeVgPn9rIDhJXYrwhU6xtlbQfhIols0Ta87eevm17iqe6uurYztGr6MWrybwU%5Faem%5FDaCj1M3oWyPPR7sFmTTkxA&ref=examiner.media) of Ashok Ferry’s latest *Hot Butter Cuttlefish* and Condé Nast’s 2026 [roundup](https://www.cntravellerme.com/gallery/the-best-hotels-in-sri-lanka?ref=examiner.media) of the island’s hotels. Sri Lankan interior design and architecture are [evolving](https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/story/an-architect-couples-home-in-sri-lanka-where-nature-acts-as-a-co-designer-colombo-sri-lanka/?ref=examiner.media), an Architectural Digest photoessay says. The photos, honestly, suggest otherwise.

Is the Indo-Lanka bridge a bridge too far? CPA [debunks](https://drive.google.com/file/u/5/d/1GbsExFjeQi51D6yeMfv2QG6Ks6h8qwDs/view?utm%5Fsource=CPA+%26+Groundviews&utm%5Fcampaign=7ab62f3809-EMAIL%5FCAMPAIGN%5F2026%5F05%5F11%5F09%5F04&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=0%5F-7ab62f3809-247993425) some of the myths. While Scroll.in hasn’t forgotten [Sri Lanka’s Malayalis](https://scroll.in/article/1092587/the-forgotten-history-of-malayali-workers-in-sri-lanka-holds-lessons-for-migration-today?ref=examiner.media).