This afternoon, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an architect of India’s history changing economic reforms, speaks at the Central Bank. Livestream here. In the evening, Feroze Kamardeen’s new irrationally rational comedy takes the stage. Saturday has Halloween Poetry at Lakmahal, promising verses dark enough to summon the dead.
On Tuesday, the Kadirgamar Institute dissects Sri Lanka’s claims to the ocean. Reminder: our ocean area is eight times larger than our landmass.
Thursday is a bumper day - both Fernando galleries open their doors: Paradise Road for Pathum Gamage’s new show Railway Tracks and Saskia’s for Chundamani Clowes’ Tilda Swims the Channel, with an artist walkthrough. But before she walks you, Clowes walks herself to the Colombo harbour in a performance art piece. In the evening, a tour of the Bawa Trust’s Ways of Seeing exhibition and a Wildlife and Nature Protection Society lecture on snails.
Next Saturday, the Colour Power workshop explores how colours are alive; shifting and transforming depending on their surroundings and, for the kids, Irushi Tenekoon and Shenuka Corea run a masterclass on character animation.
What to read
Fourteen percent of men drink hazardously, the average man drinks a hundred times more than the average woman and Upcountry Tamil women are the most likely to drink. Find these, and other alcoholic statistics, in this paper.
For those seeking a cleanse, here are the most nutritious under-eaten vegetables. IPS researchers confirm that traffic-light - red, yellow, green - sugar labelling is working. But beware of chocolate milk; they say “the absence of traffic light labels on milk-based products may mislead customers”.
Another confusing topic we’ve been covering is whether wind turbines in Mannar cause environmental damage. Here’s the only research we’ve found so far. Warning: it isn’t the easiest read.
Before we get to the economics, we have the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances’ report, the Young Feminists’ newsletter and data Nuwan’s pre-print of law, policy and media datasets.
The Central Bank’s Financial Stability Review notes that “the spread between lending and deposit rates remained elevated relative to its pre-crisis average”. The World Bank’s South Asia development update and IMF’s post-review press release are out, while Arutha and Deloitte’s have alerts on SVAT.
PS Though not yet online, you can buy Polity’s latest issue - in memory of Richard de Zoysa - at Barefoot.
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