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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-53/
- Published: 2026-10-23T06:46:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:46:29.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Week-41-2026, Diary, maintag-Diary

Lend your ears to Colombo’s redoutable Western classical music tradition. The Symphony Orchestra remembers Deshamanya [Rohan de Saram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeodzzwCFXt/?ref=examiner.media), a British-Sri Lankan cellist, **this evening**. A weaker Lankan tradition is hip hop. [Pair](https://www.instagram.com/p/Det1S7hzk8f/?ref=examiner.media) it with live instruments at The Sound Room. Grab a [free matcha](https://www.instagram.com/p/DetkYT3IpnV/?ref=examiner.media) at Havelock City and walk to Curado for the [opening](https://www.instagram.com/p/DetnD8SGA0I/?ref=examiner.media) of Rukmini Attygalle’s transitory lives. For botanical blues, Rasika De Silva [exhibits](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeWm7wXAa5Q/?ref=examiner.media) at Saskia’s. 

Your teenagers are anyway going to curse you for the world you’ve left them. Might as well give them a headstart with a storytelling [workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/Deqg4R3I579/?ref=examiner.media) on marine plastic pollution this **Saturday**. Or Alliance Français is [screening](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeL-enjv26H/?ref=examiner.media) French short films, and they’ve gone out of the way to clarify they’re keeping it PG (if that’s possible for the French). Your grandparents might enjoy a talk on taking [Kolam](https://www.instagram.com/p/Def-ZXTik4v/?ref=examiner.media) from their verandah onto a modern typeface. Ghosts [quiz](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeOBAHIvjHJ/?ref=examiner.media) you at Lakmahal and dance with you at Tunescape’s last [hoorah](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdJW-o2y%5FSr/?ref=examiner.media). DM them for tickets.

Worship the new God this **Sunday**: fitness. [Run](https://www.instagram.com/p/Des-nD9I28p/?ref=examiner.media) and Rave at Kai or [Pilates](https://www.instagram.com/p/DelPno1Mz3M/?ref=examiner.media) at Granbell. For those nursing last night's hangover, a ladies-heavy stand up [comedy](https://www.instagram.com/p/DelruH7nX1c/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) night. 

Central Banks are usually allergic to the public. But ours actually has a public lecture series, **this week** on AI and South Asian [labour markets](https://www.instagram.com/p/DevuRrzuhE8/?ref=examiner.media). Not to be outdone, the Chamber of Commerce offers similar [fare](https://www.instagram.com/p/Deq5IgMkWbn/?ref=examiner.media), focused more on Sri Lanka. AILS new book series [reads](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeQsicsGnM8/?ref=examiner.media) from Shallow Blue Water. Gehan Blok [traipses](https://www.instagram.com/p/Denl2g4G3ZL/?ref=examiner.media) from crass to absurdist comedy in *Nuga Gahak,* a Sinhala adaptation of An Oak Tree. 

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*What to read*

Great power rivalry is getting in our heads, [says](https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2026/10/sri-lankas-economic-and-geopolitical-balancing-act?ref=examiner.media) Avinash Paliwal at the Carnegie Endowment. And the human rights commission doesn’t seem to be getting enough out of Gehan Gunatilleke. He’s had time to [write](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reimagining-the-limits-of-free-speech-under-international-law-9780197905937?lang=en&cc=lk&ref=examiner.media) a tome on free speech and international law.

The Eastern province gets some attention this week, with Adayaalam [reporting](https://adayaalam.org/accumulated-suffering-aggravated-vulnerabilities-the-impact-of-ditwah-in-the-eastern-province/?utm%5Fsource=ig&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcontent=link%5Fin%5Fbio&fbclid=PAZnRzaAVDv5pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAmZkaWQWUQph3-5Aze05XHtc3GbSBkPdP-2tR3NydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp6GummkLJH8RgjLgnkAqxfzQLpHGhcBun0ywRJBW3pWp0mPiNf82jTOwaMDz%5Faem%5F8aPRJH8aHRH3mV0lIMXxag) on their Ditwah situation and HRCSL on their [human rights](https://www.hrcsl.lk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HRCSL-Report-on-the-Human-Rights-Situation-of-the-Northern-and-Eastern-Provinces-of-Sri-Lanka.pdf?ref=examiner.media) one. Two weeks ago we reported that your tattoos could land you in jail through the new organised crime bill. This week it gets [thinkpieces](https://www.ft.lk/columns/War-on-rights-Protection-from-Organised-Crimes-Bill/4-798879?ref=examiner.media) and [observations](https://www.hrcsl.lk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/General-Observations-on-the-Prevention-of-Organised-Crime-Bill.pdf?ref=examiner.media).

Sanjana Hattotuwa breaks down social media [responses](https://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/10/22/friend-or-foe-continuity-and-contestation-in-the-framing-of-gnanasara-thero/?ref=examiner.media) to Gnanasara’s arrest and Amali Wedagedara community [responses](https://polity.lk/mining-heavy-mineral-sands-deepening-dependency-not-enhancing-leverage-amali-wedagedara/?ref=examiner.media) to mineral sand mining. The bribery commission’s asset declarations database is down. Never fear, Dinidu comes to the [rescue](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Yde4CoZiARMcJhd9Tm7hcq1pzapzQMM1?ref=examiner.media).