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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-5/
- Published: 2025-10-24T07:44:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-24T09:35:28.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-07-2025

This evening, a Bawa Trust [talk](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPxvk4GDGdW/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D) on living joyfully among urban intensity, amid a climate crisis. Tomorrow a [workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/DP0T%5FoLjLLt/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D) by the same maestro, titled *A Parliament of Objects.* Also this evening, a [soireé](https://www.instagram.com/p/DP5g8z-jA64/?img%5Findex=2&igsh=MWdmbnlib28zbWtkdw%3D%3D&ref=examiner.media) from Stages, the theatre troupe, celebrating their silver jubilee. 

Sail into Tuesday with the Admiral’s Mornings at the Kadirgamar Institute. This week they [discuss](https://lki.lk/admirals-morning-october-schedule/?ref=examiner.media) Sri Lanka’s strategic neighbourhood. On Thursday, its former director, Ganeshan Wignarajah, [speaks](https://www.ids.ac.uk/events/sovereign-default-imf-stabilisation-and-trade-lessons-from-sri-lanka/?ref=examiner.media) on the root causes of our crisis at Sussex University’s Institute for Development Studies (listen in on Zoom). 

For the kids: [make Peking Opera headresses](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPifuwQgH8E/?igsh=MWNpYWU2Y2lwcjRmNw%3D%3D&ref=examiner.media) on Sunday afternoon at Lakmahal, a house once filled with Chinese abacuses. Next Friday and Saturday, a [halloween kids beach party](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQEo0cqCLB%5F/?igsh=MXYxeGk4MzkyajB5bw%3D%3D&ref=examiner.media) at the fittingly monstrous Port City. For the adults, dance with the damned, also next Friday at [Kiku’s halloween party](https://www.instagram.com/p/DP3zdN4CAJn/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D). 

BCIS’ three-part [lecture series](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQES2TvADd4/?igsh=MWs3c2NtbHdkeHlq&ref=examiner.media) on *Democracy and Democratisation* begins in a fortnight. Tickets are also now on sale for the [Youth Symphony Orchestra](https://www.instagram.com/p/DP0h2R0DGtz/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D) and [Ne-Yo in December](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQHL8udlK4i/?igsh=ZWh1dW96b2R4MnVu&ref=examiner.media). 

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Photo: [Medium](https://udithadevapriya.medium.com/awed-but-not-shocked-df12ec2ed921?ref=examiner.media)

*What to read*

WSO2 might be the most impressive Sri Lankan company in history. Its founder, Sanjiva Weerawarna, gives a thoughtful [interview](https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/sanjiva-weerawarana-on-building-products-in-international-markets?ref=examiner.media) to McKinsey. Thiruni Kelegama has a [piece](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2025.2568461?ref=examiner.media#abstract) on infrastructure brokers and the Port City over six governments. Nicholas Muller [looks](https://thediplomat.com/2025/10/4-years-after-sri-lankas-worst-environmental-disaster-south-asias-coasts-reel-from-a-new-spill/?ref=examiner.media) at the Xpress Pearl calamity four years later. 

The latest [Sri Lanka Barometer](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6401937657fbcb014f4a5c61/68f73f77c0eeb557ca6c95b4%5FSLB%20Full%20Report%5FEN%5FDigital.pdf?ref=examiner.media) suggests that Sri Lanka’s reconciliation efforts are directionally correct. Gehan Gunatilleke offers [ideas](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zUhB7kNFEv%5FDvNlSTR6OxXasEL9PCwLA/view?usp=sharing&ref=examiner.media) on using faith to help, but cautions that success depends on “avoiding overreliance” and “utilizing faith actors only for the specific strengths they offer.”