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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-49/
- Published: 2026-09-25T08:08:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T08:08:47.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-37-2026

**This evening**, shatter your history at the Lakmahal’s [pow-wow](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdnY6s8GTau/?ref=examiner.media) on Dalrymple *putha’s* new book. Fuel prices are up, delete Uber and read more with a [Colombo book fair](https://cibf.lk/?ref=examiner.media) haul. Or, later in the week, an [SSA](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdTGKLLo1f8/?ref=examiner.media) one. 

God Given Son Amila Sandaruwan [returns](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdY-AYmzJ6O/?ref=examiner.media) at Music Matters. A new [exhibition](https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddi8ZOSBU1Q/?ref=examiner.media) at Radicle offers only “imagined serenity”— not the real deal. [Uncover](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dddn7sjsziG/?ref=examiner.media) the post-taboo human form at Sky Gallery. Or [music for your mind,](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdYtgTmPAoY/?ref=examiner.media) from the Concept Collective. 

Non-prodigals return too on **Saturday**; sometimes from the grave, this time a box of Qunitus Fernando’s long-forgotten [photo-box](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdYdpKYmAZi/?utm%5Fsource=gemini) turns up at Barefoot’s gallery. Children these days don’t read, but with [Akurugraphy](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdVbkQeDb4A/?utm%5Fsource=geminihttps://www.instagram.com/p/DdVbkQeDb4A/?utm%5Fsource=gemini) they may write or even [learn](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdWU4EciPjX/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) a little empathy. Thalawathagoda cosplays King’s Landing at this [Games of Thrones quiz](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdWLlcPHe2X/?ref=examiner.media). 

While you rest, let the little ones play God on **Sunday**; [puppet making](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdduSHwunPt/?ref=examiner.media) for the babas at the Public Library. Considering we live in Lanka, can’t be sure [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdHCcBSCPXq/?ref=examiner.media) is fantastical enough to qualify for Lakmahal’s sci-fi book club; their feminist one [The Mountains Sing,](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdGHb8CI6O6/?ref=examiner.media) what’s described as a Vietnamese Pachinko. Sometimes the British Council remembers that it isn’t a tutory, this week some MusicMatters [jazz](https://www.britishcouncil.lk/events/musicmatters?ref=examiner.media). 

On **Tuesday**, First Capital’s [Startup-Nation](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdbpF0TmNqV/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) tries to annexe the region, while the French Embassy dives us into the [undersea cables](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdLol%5FXznWu/?ref=examiner.media) that connect us to it. While MusicMatters unceasing waves continue: listen to a software created music [exploring](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdjJfcRuFyF/?ref=examiner.media) “Buddhist themes of impermanence and emptiness by building systems that record, degrade, and recombine” in real time. On **Thursday**, the Bawa Trust’s men of letters [kick-off ](https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddp7ZeWmHdL/?ref=examiner.media)30 days of Akurugraphy — fingers crossed that’s a euphemism for a party. 

Later in the month, a [trip](https://www.instagram.com/p/DddCIxYCBzp/?ref=examiner.media) to Horton Plains, with the Wildlife & Nature Protection Society.

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*What to read*

Why Sri Lanka [hasn’t](https://echelon.lk/why-sri-lanka-cant-launch-a-destination-promotional-campaign/?ref=examiner.media) launched a proper tourism promotion campaign in a quarter of a century. Damning. More [tourism fiascos](https://pineapplepress.news/the-islands-sri-lanka-promised-away-twice/?ref=examiner.media), this time we promised away twice. Pair with sectoral [economic development strategies](https://economynext.com/beyond-the-crisis-sectoral-paths-to-sri-lankas-durable-growth-284411/?ref=examiner.media) from IPS. 

Reading is praxis [too](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdTYvXHpTzd/?ref=examiner.media), says this feminist workshop series. Polity explores the reality, and hyper-reality, of [image-based sexual abuse](https://polity.lk/image-based-sexual-abuse-and-consent-in-the-digital-age-sely-liyanage/?ref=examiner.media). While Piyumi Fonseka [writes](https://web.facebook.com/share/p/1HHvQGS2BH/?ref=examiner.media) about reporting after the Easter Bombings. 

Nature mags [Loris](https://www.wnpssl.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Loris.pdf?utm%5Fsource=ig&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcontent=link%5Fin%5Fbio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAadkZstUDl-rFcrA9Cl8itjs3J%5Fec9mmEYKrgKMtYuqIg0-kQmU%5FtchYIPsbWQ%5Faem%5FvZ02bsHreqS3yzOXEd-Bqw) and Little Loris are out. And Rohan Pethiyagoda’s [The Curious Naturalist](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdYO9GsBDOX/?ref=examiner.media) is available for sale again.