Amazing bit of writing.

The main reason tourism exists is so locals can make money off tourists.

You will get fleeced when you travel, especially if businesses think you have a poor grasp of how much things should cost.

Happens in every part of the world.

Someone recently told me they were really into metal until they went to therapy.

An entire genre of music suddenly made sense.

Looking through the partnership stats for Sri Lanka's mad chase to beat South Africa today.

Chamari Athapaththu hit 57 off 47 in a 90-run opening partnership.

Then smashed 110 off 75 in an unbeaten 179-run fourth wicket stand!

Beyond incredible. 🙌🏾

“man beaten to death by buddhists at a temple because they thought he was stealing money from the till” is a headline I didn't expect, and yet once seen it seems perfectly natural: of course this is what buddhism is today. decades of effort went into making it that way

He is young fast bowler from Hatton Sri Lanka, and his name is Tony Grieg.

He has three brothers, their names: Larry Gomez, Don Bradman and Steve Waugh.

CHILDREN KILLED IN CONFLICTS:

🌍 World (2019-2022): 12,193

🇵🇸 Gaza (Oct 23 - Feb 24): 12,300

In the last game it was Vishmi Gunaratne and Kaveesha Dilhari, who took Sri Lanka all the way, tonight it was Harshitha Samarawickrama. The future is finally here! #SAvSL

Media historians will unpack for decades exactly what it took for this to become the mainstream editorial position, and I suspect most will be judged incredibly harshly.

Double the delight!

Both our Men's and Women's teams have emerged victorious in their respective series! The Men clinch the Tests in Bangladesh, while the Women dominate the T20Is in South Africa. 🇱🇰

Two winning selfies, one very proud Sri Lanka Cricket!

Fave Colombo playground turned it on with the water clarity today

Got scolded on the state of my Tamil by one of the great Tamil writers: Ambai (C.S. Lakshmi)

By rights the whole flag should be red. But at least I wore the correct colour.

Can't believe people still say finding love is hard, when you can now literally sign up for a spouse while you wait to board a flight

📍Chennai airport

How have Colombo's working class poor communities been impacted by polycrisis since 2020? We tracked the shocks, impacts and coping mechanisms, and visualised them through the lives of two families in Wanathamulla in this timeline. (Best viewed on Chrome)
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