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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-copy/
- Published: 2025-10-10T08:55:23.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T08:56:40.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, week-05-2025

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This afternoon, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an architect of India’s history changing economic reforms, speaks at the Central Bank. Livestream [here](https://web.facebook.com/share/p/1BJaoWxiN6/?ref=examiner.media). In the evening, [Feroze Kamardeen’s](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPkysMOkrqB/?igsh=enlnaWtlcHh3NjIy&ref=examiner.media) new irrationally rational comedy takes the stage. Saturday has[ Halloween Poetry](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPiLfdYjZnn/?igsh=c2oweWRrdGhsd2Jq&ref=examiner.media) at Lakmahal, promising verses dark enough to summon the dead.

On Tuesday, the[ Kadirgamar Institute](https://lki.lk/admirals-morning-october-schedule/?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com) 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*](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPi4FRKEotk/?igsh=OTBiempzenF5eHQ0&ref=examiner.media) and Saskia’s for Chundamani Clowes’ [*Tilda Swims the Channel*](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-walkthrough-tilda-swims-the-channel-tickets-1760107923179?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&ref=examiner.media)*,* with an artist walkthrough*.* But before she walks you, Clowes walks herself to the Colombo harbour in a [performance art piece](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tilda-journeys-to-the-port-a-performance-by-chudamani-clowes-tickets-1760417298529?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&ref=examiner.media). In the evening, a tour of the Bawa Trust’s *Ways of Seeing* exhibition and a Wildlife and Nature Protection Society [lecture](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPWdHR1D04U/?igsh=MXByODB2NGZxdmo5OQ==&ref=examiner.media) on snails. 

Next Saturday, the[ Colour Power](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPk3f6rjLps/?igsh=eTQwandyM3lrZmI2&ref=examiner.media) 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](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPiLMOpD-OE/?igsh=dzllMXIyYnV5MnE2&ref=examiner.media). 

*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](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590113325000409?ref=examiner.media). 

For those seeking a cleanse, here are the [most nutritious under-eaten vegetables.](https://www.academia.edu/143166227/A%5Fsurvey%5Fon%5Funderutilized%5Fvegetables%5Fin%5FKandy%5FDistrict%5FSri%5FLanka%5Fand%5Fa%5Fstudy%5Fon%5Fnutritional%5Fproperties%5Fof%5Fselected%5Funderutilized%5Fvegetables?ref=examiner.media) IPS researchers confirm that traffic-light - red, yellow, green - [sugar labelling is working](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44187-025-00563-8.pdf?ref=examiner.media). 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](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edison-Marynathan/publication/396205635%5FClean%5FEnergy%5For%5FEcological%5FCost%5FApplying%5Fa%5FSCESIA%5FLens%5Fto%5FLarge-Scale%5FWind%5FDevelopment%5Fin%5FMannar%5FSri%5FLanka/links/68e1c873f3032e2b4be6ab14/Clean-Energy-or-Ecological-Cost-Applying-a-SCESIA-Lens-to-Large-Scale-Wind-Development-in-Mannar-Sri-Lanka.pdf?ref=examiner.media) 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](https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/%5Flayouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/DownloadDraft.aspx?key=Wwe6kn/ViX2xU2QSHXFuG+vIxRkRLR3AuGs5GTGmNXWIFlWbESpNA1wzUeNvruO0&ref=examiner.media), the [Young Feminists’ newsletter ](https://everystorys-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/the-young-feminists-network-newsletter-issue-viii-2025?ref=examiner.media)and data Nuwan’s pre-print of [law, policy and media datasets](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04124?ref=examiner.media). 

The [Central Bank’s Financial Stability Review](https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/sites/default/files/cbslweb%5Fdocuments/publications/fssr/fsr%5F2025e.pdf?ref=examiner.media) 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](https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstreams/b6bc556a-a868-4cfe-bbbe-88929c405450/download?ref=examiner.media) and IMF’s [post-review press release](https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2025/10/09/pr25335-sri-lanka-imf-staff-reaches-sla-on-fifth-review-under-eff-arrangement?cid=em-COM-123-50741&ref=examiner.media) are out, while [Arutha](https://arutharesearch.org/2025/10/02/removing-svat-doesnt-work-neither-does-keeping-it/?ref=examiner.media) and [Deloitte’s](https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/v2/D561FAQEj5B08DpF0Gw/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed/B56ZmuJN6eG4Ac-/0/1759563282679?e=1760572800&v=beta&t=M%5FBignLrg1glp0c3K8oH5rl7ipnXDMALC1XHWpYSM7w&ref=examiner.media) have alerts on SVAT. 

PS Though not yet online, you can buy *Polity*’s latest issue - in memory of Richard de Zoysa - at Barefoot.