When you 'Switch off' and 'Switch on' the Premiership, it restores back to Ranil Wickremesinghe.

#Militarization Asking for the nth time: Why is Min of Defence getting involved in maintenance of law & order? Why is defence spending 14.9% of our budget? When will we demilitarize & demobilize? When will everyone realize this #militarization & is harmful to democracy?

"The Government must identify a timeframe for the resignation of #President Gotabaya #Rajapaksa as a remedial measure to restore the economy" - Centre for Policy Alternatives | Newsfirst.lk Sri Lanka #SLnews #SriLanka #GotaGoHome2022 #GotaGoGama

#SriLanka’s civil war is often said to have begun in 1983, but as M. A. Nuhman reminds us, the island’s conflict has a longer, more sinister history that remains present. #historyinpoetry 1979 (Original Tamil / English trans. Lakshmi Holmström) from Lost Evenings, Lost Lives

its like pride month for rapists the way u lot r coming out

Looking forward to presenting my research at the New Postcolonial Concerns Conference at Faculty of English later this week.

#Mullivaikkal #Gaza Déjà vu. Ordering intl agencies to leave, attacking hospitals and IDP camps, creating safe zones and then attacking them, attacking civilians, journalists and humanitarian workers and labelling them members of armed group, shooting ppl waving white flags

This is the country we still live in.

I'd be real wary of anyone using the word 'disciplined' in Sri Lanka.

#SriLanka: Happening now - Pride March in Colombo

Congratulations to Ramya Jirasinghe! 'Father Cabraal's Recipe for Love Cake' has been awarded the 31st Gratiaen Prize! 🏆✨

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 “I don’t know that people always perceive realism as a political statement. But in this case it is actually intended as one. It’s insisting on the importance of fact.” theguardian.com/books/article/…

So proud of Martha Swift,who gloriously defended her DPhil today. Examined by the formidable Elleke Boehmer and Anna Bernard (KCL), Martha’s is a superb dissertation on American autofiction and its fantastic worldmaking in the works of Nicole Krauss, Téa Obreht, and Ruth Ozeki.

Have you registered for our workshop this week (Thursday) at the Asia Pacific Feminist Forum #APFF4 facilitated by Ambika Satkunanathan & Meghal Perera? Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/15dkMu… More info: apff4.apwld.org/workshops/envi…

every election there’s the majoritarian vote and the political minorities’ (eventual but reliable) Told You So vote and well here we are. #PresPollSL2024

The questions she needs to answer are: Why was she appointed as an advisor? On which issue? Was she paid for her services? If so how much? What kind of advice did she provide? Under which scheme/circular was she allocated a vehicle and under which budget line?