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in-depth 2015 account on political obstructions to justice & accountability in Sri Lanka spanning Batalanda to Bindunuwewa by appropriately titled 'The Commission Chronicle' | කොමිසම් පුරාණය: බටලන්දේ සිට බිඳුණුවැව දක්වා යුක්තිය මැඩලීමේ කතා වස්තුව www.jdslanka.org/s/index.php/...

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the government is set to discuss the controversial Batalanda Commission Report, a long-contested document detailing human rights abuses and alleged political involvement in torture and extrajudicial killings at this week’s Cabinet meeting www.themorning.lk/articles/rBl... #SriLanka

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Deputy Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Sunil Watagala says the government will launch a fresh inquiry into allegations against former President Ranil Wickremesinghe. www.newswire.lk/2025/03/08/g... #SriLanka

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The uncomfortable truth behind your cup of tea www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyAH... #SriLanka

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finally got around to seeing this news doc 'How is Sri Lanka living with the wounds of civil war?'highlighting the arduous ongoing labour of demining undertaken by Tamil women widowed by war in particular www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfJs...

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meanwhile… Sri Lanka's police issued a public appeal Thursday to locate their fugitive chief, who has been missing since a court order for his arrest following the death of an officer. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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hope this serves as yet another nail in the coffin of RW’s dead horse political career - an unequivocal embarrassment. youtu.be/OXJhvhNNHWA?... #SriLanka

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Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking. com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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‘Last December in Ahangama, a popular destination for young travellers, Israeli tourists approached a local family known for their work in Sri Lanka’s anti-Zionist movement, physically attacking and vandalising their property.’ #SriLanka

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‘No more silence’: Israelis face Gaza war backlash on Sri Lanka’s beaches www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

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🙃 Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal: UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies apnews.com/article/isra...

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Question – கேள்வி by Cheran Rudhramoorthy (trans. Anushiya Ramaswamy) polity.lk/question-che... part of @politylk.bsky.social’s series on Richard de Zoysa #SriLanka

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Thrust on growth, FDIs in Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s maiden Budget www.thehindu.com/news/interna... an excellent overview #SriLanka

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a conversation with Yasmin Sooka on the failed attempts at accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka and hopes from the country’s new political dispensation for movement towards transitional justice. www.himalmag.com/podcast/yasm...

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had a bit of a meltdown after seeing Nicobar's new Sri Lanka inspired 'Kandy' collection (of course they've also managed to shoehorn Bawa in there). Ceylon (including a 'Ceylon sari' wtf) this and that is giving aestheticizing multiple colonialities actually.

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a group of monkeys who entered the Panadura Power Station had ended up in a spat, interfering with the power grids, causing an islandwide power outage, sources from the Power and Energy Ministry said. www.dailymirror.lk/.../Monkey-c... 🙈🙉🙊 #SriLanka

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it’s only Monday and I’ve been working since 6AM and it’s also only Week 2 of the semester. Send help.

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sanctioned for gross human rights violations, but apparently no one told Penguin India since they seem fine with platforming Karannagoda for... what a war crime memoir? www.penguin.co.in/book/the-tur... #SriLanka

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US funding freeze hits Lankan NGOs supported by USAID - USAID is the largest single donor in Sri Lanka and funds hundreds of local NGOs, as well as government programmes www.sundaytimes.lk/250202/news/... #SriLanka

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Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls: Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Inside the Hind Rajab Foundation, the organization hunting Israeli war criminals around the globe mondoweiss.net/2025/01/insi... via @mondoweiss.net

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every single piece of writing I do happens by hand first before it's typed up, so needless to say I find this quite crushing. | Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

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The languages of tea-estate workers in Southasia: Part 1: Labour migration to the tea gardens of colonial India fostered contact and convergence among diverse languages, prompting the rise of new linguas francas and the erosion of many mother tongues www.himalmag.com/culture/indi...

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India's pioneering female anthropologist who challenged Nazi race theories: Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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It was never a “war.” It was never a “conflict.” It’s always been a genocidal settler colonial project.

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‘The Meeting in the Sky’ at Cinnamon Life showcasing 2000 handcrafted kites representing 380 species of Colombo’s wildlife in collaboration with Kavishka Gayashantha, a third-generation kite maker, and designer Kumkum Fernando + team was so, so spectacular.

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wishing everyone a happy thai pongal - may this year bring us luck, prosperity, abundance and good fortune | பொங்கல் வாழ்த்துக்கள் 🌞🌾🍚🥭🦜

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👀 2025 Appropriation Bill: The Defence Ministry has been allocated Rs. 442 billion, of which Rs. 382 billion is for recurrent expenditure while Rs. 60 billion is for capital expenditure - defence budget up by Rs. 19 billion (!) www.sundaytimes.lk/250112/news/... #SriLanka

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for context, the Nalanda Gedige was believed to have been constructed between the 8th-10th centuries in the Dravidian style invoking Hindu/Buddhist syncretism. Under the threat of flooding from the (new) Bovatenne tank it was reassembled on the bundt in the 1980s.

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intensive month of research wrapping up - incidentally this has meant I’ve traveled to Sri Lanka’s northernmost point (Point Pedro), southernmost point (Dondra), both coasts (west & east) and today, the central point (Nalanda Gedige) for the first time ever in a matter of weeks!

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🎙️📚 In her biography of the city, the Kashmiri writer Sadaf Wani highlights the complications of Srinagar’s identity and recentres the everyday lives of its people, particularly women. On @himalmag.bsky.social's latest Southasia Review of Books Podcast episode: www.himalmag.com/podcast/srin...

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Trincomalee sunsets are 🔥🔥🔥

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From housekeepers and migrant workers to factory workers, farmers, and home-makers, working women’s lives have been torn apart by the economic crisis. www.sundaytimes.lk/250105/news/... #SriLanka

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urban crocodile poetry from Colombo 🐊 dreams do come true!

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புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள்! One of my stories translated into Tamil for the very first time—"The Translator, at Low Tide” translated by @nasokan.bsky.social—and published in the literary magazine Kalachuvadu (paywall) kalachuvadu.com/magazines/%E...

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Happy new year friends! Wishing you love, joy, courage, beauty and wonder from rainy Colombo ✨ and of course, Free Palestine 🍉✊🏽

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"What the long middle of revolution requires, what Palestine requires, is an approach to writing whose primary purpose is to gather others up with us, to generate within them an energy which their bodies cannot translate into anything but revolutionary movement" proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

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At this point, Israel is bombing what has already been bombed, destroying what has already been destroyed, displacing those who have already been displaced—often multiple times—and killing those who have lost everything and are on the brink of death..

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Your TBR list just got a lot longer – here are 20 great titles selected by the Southasia Review of Books community for @himalmag.bsky.social’s What Southasia Read in 2024 roundup: www.himalmag.com/reviews/what...

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Israel's War on Hospitals open.substack.com/pub/jehadabu...

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Israelis involved in the genocide should face prosecution wherever they go, including Sri Lanka www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241224-isr... via @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social

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Merry Christmas! Free Palestine! 🎄🍉⭐️♥️

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