the way that I don’t want to get distracted from the many tasks at hand but also now desperately want to write about insurgent bank robberies in Sri Lanka.

'Siva' is 80 years today! Interpreter, Translator, Activist. What would #SriLanka 'civil society' do without him? Last year I had the honour of recording his life story, supported by Collective for Historical Dialogue & Memory. Two excerpts (culled from 10 hours) are online now. rb.gy/52mlqs #Left

The most terrifying summer on record for survivors of torture in the UK. One man was brutally attacked on his way to therapy with us. Other clients were racially abused on the streets - including a family with children. Many are still too scared to attend in-person therapy.

for a country pitching tourism as the solution to all of its problems, yet another problem… #SoSriLankaComeBackForMore

Security Upped For Rajapaksa Family Following Threat From Namal To Eradicate Fraud & Corruption. #lka #NewsCurry

We condemn University of St Andrews' dismissal of Stella Maris from the governing board. This attack on freedom of expression & academic freedom cannot stand. Universities should speak up for human rights, not silence those who do. We call for her immediate reinstatement. Sign

can someone point me to key Tamil/Muslim NPP members who will play a role in governance? (serious question, because I want to know what the plan to wipe out racism is) | Fixing Sri Lanka’s economy, wiping out racism top priority, says JVP leader AKD thehindu.com/news/internati…

essential reading. | ‘Most households are struggling to recover from five years of devastating economic and political turmoil that has sent the ranks of the poor soaring to 7 million from 3.04 million and kept real wage growth stagnant.’ asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-… #SriLanka

just to be clear, the ‘business community’ puts an egg or two in everyone’s basket. That’s how it works.

there’s no greater bane to my existence than my passport and the bearing it has on my mobility broadly conceived, and I hate that this is the normalised state of the world where you are rendered eternally backward, suspect and tacitly criminal on the basis of where you were born.

really pleased to have finally found a copy of this - but also the cover design!

🙃 can you tell it’s election season. | An individual has been arrested in Katugastota, Kandy, for attempting to stage a fake fuel queue newswire.lk/c0c3

having to see a stream of content from ‘remote workers’ and ‘digital nonads’ living it up in your home when you yourself can’t live and work there just hurts ngl.