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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-42/
- Published: 2026-07-31T07:47:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-31T07:47:26.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-29-2026

Two meteor showers [light the night sky](https://www.dailymirror.lk/news-features/Double-treat-for-stargazers-Two-Meteor-Showers-to-light-up-night-sky-this-week/131-346868?ref=examiner.media) this week; for a longer run, Abhisari*,* [at](https://www.scopecinemas.com/movies/abhisari-sinhala?ref=examiner.media) Scope Cinemas, explores the “raw and complex lives of sex workers.”

The fact-y crowd descends into Macfarlane's Underland at Lakmahal's [book club](https://www.instagram.com/p/DafvP4cDS9j/?ref=examiner.media). Last call for Lakmahal’s [StorySLAM](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaU5HaIFlkI/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media). Everystory screens Pakistan’s Oscar nominee [Joyland](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joyland-2022-community-screening-tickets-1995287315071?ref=examiner.media). Just as we forsook Forsaken Land, you can’t watch it there. An[ Akurugraphy tour](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/akurugraphy-exhibition-tour-with-co-curator-pathum-egodawatta-tickets-1995447375817?ref=examiner.media) at the Bawa Trust, the redeemers gather for [Stigmata](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ6vug7IlVu/?ref=examiner.media), and Argentine DJ, Hernán Cattaneo, at [Port City](https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108636834?ref=examiner.media).

Saturday, take in the [Romantic masterworks](https://www.facebook.com/share/1D7RhYfBKr/) of the symphony orchestra. By day Design Collective’s Jodi [pop-up](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jodi-pop-up-tickets-1995613238918?ref=examiner.media) and our version of jousting re-enactment is [palm-leaf writing](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbCtxCKDddp/?ref=examiner.media). Who compete with [Hypercon](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYHtGPPCDn6/?ref=examiner.media) cosplayers? The prizes aren’t chump change, it’s serious stuff. 

Sunday, the Goethe screens disability-rights landmark [Crip Camp](https://www.goethe.de/ins/lk/en/ver.cfm?event%5Fid=27321105&ref=examiner.media), Arjuna Gunarathne unpacks his kaleidoscope of perceptions in an [artist talk](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-talk-arjuna-gunarathne-tickets-1995668241432?ref=examiner.media) and [walkthrough](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-walkthrough-arjuna-gunarathne-kaleidoscope-of-perceptions-tickets-1995665225411?ref=examiner.media). Keep walking till you reach the [Latin dance classes](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaPvtBOCTGW/?ref=examiner.media) and then tango out. 

Tuesday’s heavier: [Black July](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dau5CHQppie/?ref=examiner.media) at Fearless Space and [disaster nationalism](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbZulOIiOyE/?ref=examiner.media) at the SSA. For gentler company, Brahms and Mozart at this year’s Earle de Fonseka [concert](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaH70bkHFBZ/?ref=examiner.media), which always brings out many of our best players. 

On Thursday, Sri Lanka remembers it’s next to India. One of the key architects of India’s economic renaissance, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, [speaks](https://www.instagram.com/india%5Fcalling.by.liba/?ref=examiner.media). Lots of other panels to bridge the divide, sadly none on the actual bridge. The winner takes it all at [quiz](https://www.instagram.com/p/Da2e7F5lVs1/?ref=examiner.media) this week, and the musicians go back to school for an[ alumni workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbK-hD1Roeo/?ref=examiner.media) at MusicMatters.

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*What to read*

Verité on how [cigarette taxes fell](https://publicfinance.lk/en/topics/cigarette-got-a-tax-break-while-everything-else-got-taxed-more-1780451787?ref=examiner.media) while almost everything else climbed. Twenty years on,Human Rights Watch finds [no justice](https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/26/no-justice-20-years-since-sri-lankas-muttur-massacre?ref=examiner.media) for the Muttur massacre, and Rathindra Kuruwita weighs-up [tariff concession](https://thediplomat.com/2026/07/sri-lankas-tariff-concession-may-carry-a-diplomatic-cost-with-china/?ref=examiner.media). 

The draft NGO law in [old wine in old bottles](https://www.ft.lk/opinion/The-draft-NGO-law-casts-a-wide-net-to-build-an-architecture-of-oppression/14-795241?ref=examiner.media), a brief to the PM weighs [children, harms and rights](https://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/children-harms-and-rights-policy-brief-for-prime-minister-on-proposed-social-media-restrictions-for-under-16s-in-sri-lanka/?ref=examiner.media) in the under-16 social media ban, and Christian children are found [bullied](https://www.christiandaily.com/news/christian-children-in-sri-lanka-subject-to-bullying-discrimination-report-says?ref=examiner.media). 

Skip the Spivakese introduction to read the sections on translation, in this paper on [epistemic injustice](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16094069261469123?ref=examiner.media) in insider research. The [costs of dengue](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772707626000019?ref=examiner.media) (indirect cost is $371 per case), a stressed [food-security outlook](https://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/sri-lanka-food-security-outlook-june-2026-january-2027-stressed-ipc-phase-2-outcomes-expected-sri-lanka-through-january-2027?ref=examiner.media), and WNPS's *Loris* [journal](https://www.wnpssl.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Loris.pdf?ref=examiner.media), children's version in tow.

And a farewell: Sir Christopher Ondaatje — writer, corporate buccaneer, adventurer, Olympic bobsledder and brother of Michael — has [died at 93](https://dailyexpress.lk/entertainment/celebrities/rip/35896/?ref=examiner.media).