Good Law Project Read this short explanation of WHY this case is so important (3-4mins): goodlawproject.org/high-court-sla…

Excellent event with our friends Manchester Poetry Library!

Launching 'Out of Sri Lanka: The Poetry of Witness' - featuring Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne and Shash Trevett

Wed 1 May, 6-7.30pm
Tickets: Free

mmu.ac.uk/poetry-library…

A lovely review of The Untameables The Emma Press https:// 🌱redbrick.me/book-review-th…

Booking is OPEN for this interactive worldbuilding talk at Hay-suitable for young readers & adults!
AND copies of both #TheDestinyofMinouMoonshine
& early copies of
#TheVoyageofSamSingh
will be on sale!
hayfestival.com/p-21540-gita-r…

PEN America Cancels 2024 Literary Awards Ceremony:

'The $75,000 prize accompanying the PEN/Stein award will be donated, this year, to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the direction of the Literary Estate of Jean Stein.'

publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

PEN America's silence on the genocide in Palestine caused so many authors to reject the organisation that its Literary Awards ceremony has been cancelled.

The largest prize, the Jean Stein award, will be given to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the instruction of her

Memorial held in Vavunikulam, #Mullaitivu to mark 16 years since the killing of human rights activist Rev Mariampillai Xavier Karunaratnam allegedly by the #SriLanka military

“Father Killi believed in the dialogue between north east and south.” Fr Sherard Jayawardena, Kithusara

This thread!

🚨 AT YALE: They are arresting students as they raid the encampment and transporting them away on shuttles.

Last night was so intense in the central area. Bombing didn’t stop. Israeli artillery targeted the last floor of Awad hospital in Nusirat. Naval boats targeted Deir Albalah and Zawaydeh shores and quadcaptors bombed an open court in a school sheltering displaced people in Buriej.

Please please read this. I felt sick when I learned the SoA management committee opposed the Fossil Free Books resolution for a permanent ceasefire. But our union is a democratic organisation and our votes matter. Please vote!

'This is our chance to demand our union represent us'

🚨Calling UK writers, illustrators, and translators! Join the May 2 EGM vote we’re bringing to @thesocietyofauthors, on fossil fuels divestment and the genocide in Gaza! More in comments ⬇️ and in our bio - it’s time to act collectively to make our industry take a stance 🌏🍉

Vajra Chandrasekera and considering how much he's made and will continue to make from his monetised video about this incident ...
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800 rupees is $2.65 btw. The actual story here is that a Belgian ex-engineer travel influencer called Tim Tense got a Sri Lankan man arrested by calling him a scammer because he didn't want to pay $2.65.

#Archives | While Modi gained electoral benefits from the narrative about Balakot, he employed the military brass to deflect any questioning. The air force’s interests aligned with the political interests of the ruling party in covering its failures.
caravanmagazine.in/security/milit…

“India’s worst nightmare?”

10 years ago, a prescient cover story by William Dalrymple in the British magazine The New Statesman, in which the historian looked into the future. Narendra Modi’s shameless Islamophobia shows there is no need any longer for a question mark William Dalrymple

We are LIVE and public with the Columbia/Barnard academic and cultural boycott. As of this moment, we have 521 signatories. Please sign on and share widely. Solidarity! docs.google.com/forms/d/1a1553…

Last night at Columbia University, hundreds of Jewish students and their classmates gathered at the Gaza solidarity encampment and celebrated the beginning of Shabbat with song and prayer. Directly after, Muslim students held Jummah prayer, the Friday prayer offered in community.

'We are awake until justice is done' - commemorations marking 5 years since the 2019 Easter Sunday attack begin with a trilingual mass at St. Anthony's Church Kochchikade. #lka #SriLanka

BreakThrough News twitter.com/alqawasmi_rula…