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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-31/
- Published: 2026-05-22T07:08:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-22T07:08:14.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: maintag-Diary, Diary, Week-19-2026

This evening a Music Matters power duet: [open mic ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYOyQS6RMcL/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)and [Chiththa](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYPfNT0x5LV/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==). But they don’t [silence the flowers](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYgLHT6IAqD/?ref=examiner.media) at the Curado. Lahiru Sandaruwan [paints](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYRxMlxmePJ/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) his experience of being hacked, at the Gallery Café. Andrea Novellis [rethinks](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYjZpU2kjl5/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) the post-liberal order in a BCIS short course. 

On Saturday, the history collective [wanders](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYjtspFSk3h/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==) through the Colombo Museum, figuring out how to lighten the colonised’s burden. Lakmahal [hosts](https://www.instagram.com/p/DX03HJmDrtg/?ref=examiner.media) three clubs: for the poets, the queers and the fictional scientists. 

[Lounge](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYjQHgzNh8j/?igsh=OHFueDBrZGQzaGF2&ref=examiner.media) on Sunday with the literati at the Fika Deli. Or groove, in your indestructible Wendt chair, to Tilanka Jayamane’s [Paradise Jukebox](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYjQHgzNh8j/?igsh=OHFueDBrZGQzaGF2&ref=examiner.media). Anoma Wijewardene sheds light on her work, and herself, as she walks through her [exhibition](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYjxcIeN4hT/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==) at Radicle. A repeat next Sunday too. 

Come Tuesday, social scientists [launch](https://ssalanka.org/?ref=examiner.media) a book on colonial land-grabbing, of the domestic variety. It's called Manal Aru / Weli Oya. Sidenote: an *oya* runs dry outside the monsoon, a *ganga* flows eternal. Exporters, shove your [complaints](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYeYZnaEfkX/?ref=examiner.media) in the minister’s face at the Ceylon Chamber. If he doesn’t listen, figure out whether to migrate, or not, courtesy an Alliance Française [screening](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYUHvJLjWRq/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) of Clara. 

Watch the Palme d’Or winning [thriller](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYmNF7zErp6/?ref=examiner.media) “It was just an accident” on Wednesday, much better than trying to figure out [how to pay your taxes](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYWvHATGmD0/?ref=examiner.media) if you have a *peti kade*. 

Thursday [brings](https://www.instagram.com/p/DX03HJmDrtg/?ref=examiner.media) Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts fans to Lakmahal. The Guardian called her “one of the sharpest minds of her generation.”

[F#ck Up](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYlp2W6iLbG/?ref=examiner.media) next Friday with Noeline at Hatch, manicures have a lower error tolerance rate than code, ok. [Pitch](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWljbnsjEKU/?ref=examiner.media) an AI start-up at First Capital’s Start-up nation, or [dream](https://www.instagram.com/p/DX03HJmDrtg/?ref=examiner.media) up its antidote at the Age of Surveillance capitalism book club. 

June brings events from the [Chamber Music Society](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYetuuwv55t/?ref=examiner.media), the [Mahler Soc ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DXlY%5FQxDJCM/?ref=examiner.media)and the [Ceylon Chamber’](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYSKwuGEZbt/?ref=examiner.media)s climate chaps. And [tickets](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYjjHiZAlHM/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==) go live for August’s Naadha Gama music festival. 

*The Examiner*, meanwhile, heads to America this June. Foreign subscribers, catch Mimi in Toronto, New York, DC, and Boston. Local subscribers, yes, she’d love to be a pack mule, but no, she doesn’t have extra luggage space.

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*What to read* 

Read your diary! Only one subscriber pointed out we forgot to add the “*What to read”* subtitle. Shame on the rest of you. 

Murtaza Jafferjee does a teach-in on the Daily Mirror’s whole front page, [arguing against fuel subsidies](https://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking-news/When-fuel-subsidies-sink-the-rupee-why-increase-the-tax-on-vehicles/108-340788?ref=examiner.media). EconomyNext has [examined](https://economynext.com/explainer-how-to-reverse-the-decline-of-sri-lankas-colombo-port-271694/?ref=examiner.media) every nook and cranny of the Colombo Port’s decline. Rathindra Kuruwita wants to [white van](https://thediplomat.com/2026/05/sri-lankas-mattala-rajapaksa-international-airport-refuses-to-disappear/?ref=examiner.media) the Mattala Airport. 

Ermiza Tegal on how a suite of new laws are [eroding our civil liberties](https://www.ft.lk/opinion/New-laws-continue-to-erode-Sri-Lankans-civil-liberties/14-792149?ref=examiner.media). Journalists [warn](https://web.facebook.com/share/p/17oj4Yo3GQ/?ref=examiner.media) against amending the RTI act. 

A [review](https://openthemagazine.com/books/bitter-sweetness-a-debut-novel-baked-in-power-and-loss-2?ref=examiner.media) of Ramya Jirasinghe’s Father Cabraal’s recipe for love cake, and go [behind the scenes ](https://www.weareonehumanity.org/writings/a-democracy-in-debt?ref=examiner.media)of the documentary, “Democracy in Debt”. 

D.B.S. Jeyaraj put down his pen for the last time, a selection of obituaries from [The Hindu](https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/noted-sri-lankan-journalist-dbs-jeyaraj-dies-in-canada/article70990944.ece?ref=examiner.media), [The Wire](https://thewire.in/south-asia/dbs-jeyaraj-fearless-chronicler-of-sri-lankas-ethnic-conflict-and-tamil-struggle-passes-away?ref=examiner.media), [Jaffna Monitor](https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/letter-to-the-editor-setting-the-record-straight-on-d-b-s-jeyarajs-exile/?ref=examiner.media) and [FT](https://www.ft.lk/news/Veteran-journalist-and-Daily-FT-columnist-D-B-S-Jeyaraj-no-more/56-792037?ref=examiner.media). His [website](https://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/?ref=examiner.media) also lives on. Nor is he the last of Jaffna College writing to the papers, Mahendran Thiruvarangan on [decolonizing](https://www.ft.lk/opinion/Decolonising-liberation-Seeing-beyond-the-Vaddukoddai-Resolution/14-792282?ref=examiner.media) the Vaddukoddai Resolution.