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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-7/
- Published: 2025-11-07T05:54:33.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-07T06:33:13.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Week-09-2025, Diary, maintag-Diary

This evening choose between Deloitte’s [budget briefing](https://deloitte.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN%5FsGLsIxOwSmedrnZXT8i8sQ?id1=:2sm:3fb:4Budget%5FEvent%20::6oth:20251016060025:Budget%5FEvent%20:18473721987:5&utm%5Fsource=fb&utm%5Fcampaign=Budget%5FEvent&utm%5Fcontent=oth&utm%5Fmedium=social#/registration) and ICES’ [lecture performance on archives](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQdqcZekgqm/?igsh=YnBheHVzbzI0NG95&ref=examiner.media). Upali’s [Lankan retro music](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQlQr8Dk7qb/?igsh=ZHhidnppMnlobXhn&ref=examiner.media) and for the broké, Lakmahal’s BYOB [Story Slam](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQGo3YcEma9/?igsh=YmwxcHdhdmRwaTJ3&ref=examiner.media). Or cha-cha the evening away at a [latin dance class](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQmjBaqDAye/?igsh=MW1iZmlmMnBhbWJ0OQ==&ref=examiner.media). 

Saturday brings Pradeep Thalawatte [walking you through his exhibition](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-walkthrough-go-home-is-within-me-tickets-1922420805379?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&ref=examiner.media) at Saskia’s and a [Kid’s Curtain Call](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQtLKOXitju/?igsh=MW0yYTAzaHAzaHhqNA==&ref=examiner.media) at the Wendt. If you missed it on Friday, catch a Sinhalese [improv comedy show](https://pickme-app-sl.onelink.me/Fore/4fz1wn9h?ref=examiner.media). 

If the budget hasn’t bored you utterly by then, on Monday the Ceylon Chamber has a [budget briefing](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQY5rc7kV1A/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) with business bigwigs. If it has bored you, [Junior Symphony Orchestra](https://www.instagram.com/p/DP0h2R0DGtz/?igsh=MXZ4eWg1a3JqZXJrZA==&ref=examiner.media) also performs. 

Tuesday delves into war wounds - physical and psychic - via [Prassana Vithanage’s film, *Death on a Full Moon Day*](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQmfab6CKsy/?img%5Findex=1&igsh=ZzJvdHV2dW11ZzZ1&ref=examiner.media)*.* 

*Ways of Knowing* exhibition continues at the Bawa Trust, with a guided tour on [Thursday](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ways-of-knowing-exhibition-tour-tickets-1855976518729?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&ref=examiner.media). Also a [memory walk at the Victoria -> Viharamahadevi ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQjVotWElak/?img%5Findex=2&igsh=MjZjZ3NzamtoemQ5&ref=examiner.media)park. 

Next Friday, two-way film and dialogue: [Boddee Keerthisena traces departure to Italy, Niluka Telli returns to rediscover her roots.](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQokEFHk1kP/?igsh=ZWI1NjJhM3I5Zm9s&ref=examiner.media) And, next weekend, the [first blind women' s cricket world cup](https://blindcricket.in/match-schedule-and-team-details-of-1st-womens-t20-cricket-world-cup-for-the-blind-2025/?ref=examiner.media) at Katunayake. 

Tickets now online for the month’s headline concert, [Kankalu](https://kankalu.com/?ref=examiner.media). Start booking your digs for the [Matara Festival of the Arts](https://mataraforarts.com/?ref=examiner.media) in early December, especially as the Galle Literary Festival isn’t happening :’( 

PS The Amaliya Foundation organises [yoga, scrabble, and tech](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8LAo2edjO2AgBkiGFxi52K7rj1wgVV-pJIkyNrLqco/edit?usp=sharing&ref=examiner.media) for the goldies. There’s something on almost every day.

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*What to read*

Manoj Jinadasa asks [why men rag men](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manoj-Jinadasa/publication/397099747%5FWhen%5FMen%5FRag%5FMen%5FWhen%5FMen%5FRag%5FMen%5FMasculinity%5FSexual%5FViolence%5Fand%5FInstitutional%5FPower%5Fin%5FSri%5FLanka/links/6904d3d99708d52f2da42512/When-Men-Rag-Men-When-Men-Rag-Men-Masculinity-Sexual-Violence-and-Institutional-Power-in-Sri-Lanka.pdf?ref=examiner.media). A [case study](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09670106251382690?ref=examiner.media) of [anti-microfinance *sathyagraha*](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09670106251382690?ref=examiner.media) and women’s land rights protests in Panama. 

Army training comes in handy after all. [A fifth of respondents to a survey of prisoners involved in organised crime were ex-military or police](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dhanushka-Weerasinghe/publication/397175508%5FFrom%5FLearning%5Fto%5FChoosing%5FA%5Fof%5FCriminal-Career%5FDevelopment%5Fin%5FOrganized%5FStudy%5FCrime/links/6906c8c9c900be105cbe84e4/From-Learning-to-Choosing-A-of-Criminal-Career-Development-in-Organized-Study-Crime.pdf?ref=examiner.media), says a study of organised crime career trajectories. 

The Census and Treasury’s [Mid-Year Fiscal Review](https://www.treasury.gov.lk/api/file/f32ccc5f-896d-4e5f-a126-c2417e652cbd?ref=examiner.media) are out. The government’s pension bill is now over a third of the wage bill, and it’s growing . A [quarter of Sri Lankans are multi-dimensionally poor](https://cgspace.cgiar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/bb5a2585-854b-4164-b860-a2d7d8a70f78/content?ref=examiner.media). While researchers find [power cuts might be a barrier to electronic medical record adoption. ](https://jbt.sljol.info/articles/226/files/6904212f14f4c.pdf?ref=examiner.media)