On 2 July, 2025 @ 5.30 pm in Colombo

Interesting discussion on Nivedita Menon's 2024 book ‘Secularism as Misdirection' with Kalpana Kannabiran, Aditya Nigam, Hilal Ahmed and me hosted online by Law and Other Things tinyurl.com/Response-by-Ni… Links to book's summary & responses, including mine, accessible at above link.

ආචාර්ය ජානකී ජයවර්ධනගේ 'සිංහල ගැහැනිය, සංස්කෘතිය සහ සම්ප්‍රදායය' කෘතිය එලිදැක්වීම 2025 ජූලි 21 වන දා සවස 03.00 ට නො. 114, විජේරාම මාවත, කොළඹ 7 හෙක්ටර් කොබ්බෑකඩුව කෘෂි පර්යේෂණ සහ පුහුණු ආයතන ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේ දී සිදුවේ. මුඛ්‍ය දේශනය: ආචාර්ය දර්ශි තෝරදෙනිය කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය

#SriLanka will continue to arrest Indian fishermen and seize their boats as long as they continue trespassing into the island’s territorial waters, authorities have warned, categorically stating that there is “no room for leniency,” Meera Srinivasan reports trib.al/V503HpN

Mark your calendar .... Saturday 5th July 2025 @ 5.30 pm @ Millenium Art Contemporary, Athurugiriya. Roma Chatterji will speak on the art of Sri Lankan artist, Anoli Perera with a focus on time and memory …. 'Mothers and Daughters: Time and Memory in the Art of Anoli Perera'

From Tambapanni ....

July 14 @ ICES Colombo

Sarath De Alwis makes a series of sensible points if Lanka's government wishes to understand .... colombotelegraph.com/index.php/arro…

Michael McIntyre on silent letters in English .... youtu.be/sOUqHr9tcVY?si…

සඳුදා ....

How universities began in Lanka ... Where do they stand today? island.lk/ceylons-path-t…

For those in Kandy, Sri Lanka ....

Just returned from a long shoot in Colombo. A country grappling with economic crisis and fairly recent political turmoil, and yet its capital is cleaner, more organised, and more dignified than the so-called financial capital of a rising superpower. Every time I come back to

Bhim Raj's very personal and reflective essay on what South Asian University has become from where he was expelled just before getting admission to Oxford thewire.in/education/the-…

Civil Aviation Authority of Srilanka in search of 'facts in in non-facts. Now, looking for 25 mythological aircraft hidden by Rawana ... all in the name of science and history with taxpayers money and time ... shorturl.at/CiNPu

Incredible India? No Bengali for Bengalis in West Bengal now? thehindu.com/news/cities/ko…

In our hapless land, for a short time so far today, the law seems equal to all ... adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=1…