This evening Vimukthi Jayasundere’s Forsaken Land and the vivacious Fabienne Francotte’s forever exhibition at Saskia’s. There’s a Jaffna Food Festival, but you’re almost certainly better off at the outstanding Olai.
Opt for a socialist sabbath this Sunday with an adaptation of the Soviet Guru Geethaya at the Elphinstone.
Start the week at ICES, where Donald Horowitz abandons coup theories for the devils in devolution. Apparently social media is no less tricky. There’s the official commemoration of the war’s end and another, different sort of remembrance, at Wellawatte beach.
A Bawa Trust talk 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 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 awareness.
On Thursday, the Wildlife and Nature Society’s monthly lecture. And then on Friday, a Music Matters open mic.
Our loony lunar calendar folly 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 needs to be done to system change.
Sri Lanka’s leading demographer explores the complexity of our potential fertility collapse. His conclusion: we’re still boning, just later in life.
Digitisation pays off, find IPS researchers.“Is Indian clean energy, cleaner than China’s?”, asks a paper 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 too. Sri Lanka’s sawfish are now functionally extinct.
Colpetty vs Kalabola in this review of Ashok Ferry’s latest Hot Butter Cuttlefish and Condé Nast’s 2026 roundup of the island’s hotels. Sri Lankan interior design and architecture are evolving, an Architectural Digest photoessay says. The photos, honestly, suggest otherwise.
Is the Indo-Lanka bridge a bridge too far? CPA debunks some of the myths. While Scroll.in hasn’t forgotten Sri Lanka’s Malayalis.
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