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Colombo tonight, after the rains. Less Lotus Towers and vanity projects, more liveable, citizen-friendly cities, please.
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Kollupitiya market's fruit and vegetable stands are a master class in produce display (💯 for the lettuce ruffle on top)
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Gotagogama. Never thought I would see pics of slain/kidnapped journalists outside the Presidential Secretariat. Never thought I would see people camping on Shangri-la grounds, crowds & chants continuing well into the night.Never have I met so many people intent on feeding me well
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So many rats jumping ship. So much public posturing, sudden enlightenment and soulful social media epiphanies by people who had no qualms aligning with or profiting from a deeply racist, corrupt regime until now — from influencers to business barons to folks in personal circles.
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Arrived a little late to the Amrita Sher-Gill appreciation club but I'm here now (Loving the Cezanne influences. Also such an interesting life story. h/t to
@womensart1
for the initial introduction)
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Today marks six years since anti-Muslim mob attacks in Aluthgama, Sri Lanka on 15 June 2014. Two days of carefully orchestrated rioting resulting in 4 deaths, over 80 people injured, thousands displaced & Muslim-owned shops + homes burned & looted.
📷 Ishara Kodikara,
@AFP
(1)
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Well done to
@sachp
and all for organising today's teachout at the protest and to
@LuwieNiranjan
and
@shamara4w
for speaking. It was good to see the interest and also just so nice to see the public reclaiming and using a public space like Independence Square on their own terms.
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Derana has been on a breathtakingly racist streak with its
#COVID19SL
coverage. Nothing new but it keeps surpassing itself. There's a
@chaturaalwis
clip where he insinuates that the whole of Sri Lanka and Sinhala-Tamil New Year shuddered to a halt because of just 3 people.
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I'm just a girl, standing in front of the
@Keells_SL
site at 6am, asking it to accept my grocery order.
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Official letters show CEB Chairman was instructed to facilitate Adani projects in Sri Lanka | by
@nimilamalee
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@broseph_stalin
@Imposter_Edits
@WritersofColour
An eruption after over a month of peaceful protests, recent violence against protestors, a dire economic crisis, political crisis, fuel + gas + food shortages, a medical crisis, extreme malgovernance, nepotism. Clickbait videos and captions don't even capture a fraction of it.
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Going out anywhere in Colombo these days feels like an extreme sport. Will you get a tuk? Are there viable bus routes? How crowded are buses today? Maybe wear walking shoes incase you have to walk back home? Let's f around and find out.
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Today, read about Gnanakka spiking protesters with voodoo bottled water made out of 2 dozen wildflowers, some flown from India. Then saw a poster inviting people to hang their undies near parliament. Living in Sri Lanka means always mentally see-sawing between laughing and crying
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You're perfect just the way you are, beetroot. Don't listen to the haters
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I always knew elites and politicians would be hoarding amidst the apocalypse but I naively thought it would be 5 gas cylinders, 15 milk powder packets, 10 cards of paracetamol type of hoarding.
If you average 1 gas cylinder a month, this is 6.6 years worth of gas.
80 gas cylinders found in the house of Former Minister Johnston Fernando while 400 packets of Urea found in the house of Governor Mahipala Herath
#lka
#SriLanka
#SriLankaCrisis
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Mother of all Kimbula bunis
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In the absence of visitors, Sri Lanka's zoo and park animals have been... busy
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Have you ever read someone's writing and wanted to be their friend?
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This manifesto is what happens when wealthy corporate bros start drinking and then hypothetically solve all of Sri Lanka's problems and one of them says machan you should run for president and the other guys says yes bro you should & now this is where we are this is where we are.
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It took international pressure, a few hundred burned bodies and nearly a year for Sri Lanka to revise an openly racist policy of forced cremation.
Every single person who endorsed, stood silent and enabled this cruelty has the deep grief and anguish of so many on their hands.
Alhamdulillah! 🙏
‼️‼️BREAKING:
The Gazette notification permitting burials of COVID-19 bodies has been issued by the Government Printer.
The Gazette has been signed by Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi.
#LKA
#SriLanka
#StopForcedCremations
#COVID19SL
#COVID19LK
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Been so tired. I don't know how to ease this fatigue or what to do with this sadness and deep, simmering anger at the heightened daily survival stress and everything that has unfolded and is unfolding in Sri Lanka.
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A boy died today. I don't know why the death of someone I only knew online cuts so deep. Take a beat to honour his life and grieve. Then use that anger and frustration you're feeling into building a better world than the one that failed him over and over and over again.
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Wait, Apè Amma is the top earning YouTube channel in Sri Lanka? That is impressive.
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This, this, this. My parents didn't come from money. They sacrified so much to build their lives. And now in their old age when they're supposed to be slowing down, the value of their savings have depleted, they are sweating in power cuts and are figuring out how to get gas.
Or stand in a gas queue in the rain for over 3 hours with my mother.
How our parents have to suffer in their old age, after struggling all their lives is the shittiest part of all this.
#EconomicCrisisLK
#GoHomeGota
#GoHomeRajapaksas
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Incredibly messed up report from Thanamalwila of a 16-year-old girl raped by 22 boys. There is something so broken and rotten entrenched deep in Sri Lankan culture that enables this type of horrific violence and hatred of women, and protects perpetrators.
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idk who needs to hear this but pls stop picking twitter fights with random accounts & validating terrible takes. Not every hot take should be debated or dissected. It is not worth it. Some opinions need to be lost into the void & buried with puppy & dalgona coffee videos.
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Sri Lanka is freefalling towards the future like a barely-hanging-in-there millennial with an alarmingly empty bank account, a
#yolo
mindset, lots of generational baggage and a 5-year plan they wrote on a napkin when they got high one night.
We're running the country on a day-to-day basis. Great.
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Naked ribbon cake is butter cake that discovered its sexuality later in life. In this essay I will
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Came across a father and son obituary notice from one family among the recent COVID deaths in Sri Lanka. We are yet to acknowledge the post-war grief this country holds. Can't begin to imagine the new wounds and mass trauma this pandemic will leave us with.
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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker prize for fiction for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Congratulations
@ShehanKaru
! 🎉🎉
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I can tell my dad was hungry while fasting today because of his phonetic alphabet examples while spelling out his name at the hospital reception.
"Yes, that's M for Marie biscuits. B for Bombay onions. I for ice cream..."
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Three different choon paans have converged on the lane and there is a Fur Elise remix party that no one asked for happening at the moment.
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Everytime I use the
@ComBank_LK
banking app I fight the urge to hurl my phone into the Beira lake, yell into the void, renounce all technology, become an ascetic and grow my own vegetables in the wilderness. Never met a more user unfriendly app.
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Are 21-year-olds tortured and beaten to death in police custody a marker of a virtuous and disciplined society? Or is it a part of vistas of prosperity and splendour?
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Books by bike: The man who runs a motorbike mobile library in Sri Lanka
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There was a small thalagoya in the garden and my mum tried chasing it away by hosing it but because it's so very hot it just stood there appreciatively, thoroughly enjoying the water and basking in the coolness while nodding at my mum as if to say thank you minion, thank you.
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Cats of Nugegoda. Always come across this fellow perched here. Please ignore the inelegant one in the background.
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We're sold this idea that cashless is the epitome of modern convenience. Keep seeing people complaining about tuks/cabs refusing card hires. Many people are living hand to mouth, everyone is going through so much. Paying in cash is such a small ask in the grand scheme of things.
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Good morning only to the copywriter who wrote this description of cream buns.
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Eleven-year-old Kieran de Zoysa was killed in the Cinnamon Grand bomb blast during the Easter attacks.
@observerlk
has an article by his grieving mother as well as an essay he wrote about
#SriLanka
and his move to Colombo. That last paragraph 💔
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Guidelines are great in theory. Sri Lanka's public transport infrastructure is limited (breaking news: it has been for a long time). Social distancing is a luxury. That's it. That's the tweet.
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The only tree in our small garden which gives us generously, unerringly.
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Good to see a full pager in the
@Dailymirror_SL
with the netball team profiles. All eyes are on cricket these days but Sri Lanka's netball squad is headed for the Netball World Cup 2019 this month in Liverpool. They were champions at the Asian Netball Championship 2018.
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City wanderings. Somewhere in 2017. Somewhere in Bambalapitiya.
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Muted preparations for Ramadan at home this year. Distributing our zakaath (alms giving) to those affected by the Easter attacks. Ramadan Kareem, everyone. Hoping for collective healing and peace. 🙏
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Asiri Surgical is the only pvt hospital in Sri Lanka equipped to do a PET CT scan, which is priced at LKR 300,000. The average cost of a PET scan in a pvt hospital in India is b/w INR 10,000 - 35,000. Just trying to understand why the scan costs more than double this amount in SL
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My father made his first successful ikman sale and also made a new friend in the process. He is now excitedly surveying the house for other things to sell. People talk about buyer's remorse but maybe they should be talking about seller's high.
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Sri Lankan politicians advising prisoners to "behave well" is the epitome of irony.
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Rest in power, Dr Malathi de Alwis. What a loss. Malathi's work on memory and nationalism are vital to understanding aspects of Sri Lanka as it is today.
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@Imposter_Edits
@WritersofColour
No. It wasn't "anger over the cost of living". Y'all really out here rewriting all our stories to suit your own narratives.
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This whole week has been depressing news after news about prices of things increasing. Is there anything that hasn't increased at this point
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Some crass, hateful takes in response to the pride march. Solidarity and love to Sri Lanka's LGBTQ+ community, a community which disproportionately bears the brunt of so much structural and societal violence in SL; who constantly have to reaffirm their right to simply exist.
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Quick, Sri Lanka -- is it too late to float this candidate?
Interesting visitor getting ready to address the Joint Opposition press conference in Colombo :)
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No vegetable truck down our lane yet. We got a mobile pirith truck today though.
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Like Sanath Jayasuriya, I too implore politicians and the parliament to produce solutions suitable for the people. To quote the great scribe and thinker Ice Cube: "Chickity-check yo' self before you wreck yo' self".
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Just stop to think about it. The bar is so low for Sri Lankan politicians -- that these are the election promises they can campaign on.
#GenElecSL
#SriLankaElections2020
#lka
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Media friends, are these the kind of inane releases you've been subjected to in the past months?
This is like the daily dispatches my uncle sent when he had his first grandchild.
"Today she burped loudly. We all laughed."
"She rolled over today. Here is a 12 min video. Enjoy!!"
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MP Harini Amarasuriya on the responses to Bhagya Abeyrathne's comments on
#SriLanka
's ongoing environmental destruction
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To blithely continue with a large-scale school sporting event at a time when a global pandemic is spreading and most local public gatherings are postponed is very on brand for
#SriLanka
's elite -- a cavalier disregard for public safety & everything unfurling outside their bubble.
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My family has stress-eaten all the food I stress-baked and kept to stress-eat.
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Cannot keep up with increasing transport costs — and I am among the privileged. Worried about months to come, worried about how everyone is going to manage.
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They're out here making achcharu popsicles.
Mango sweetness with a fiery chili edge - these pops are pure summery goodness through and through.
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I'm trying to write my way through a writing rut and have started a newsletter. If you like what you read, I hope you'll consider subscribing
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Today, four years ago. The only candidate I can still endorse. Somewhere in a parallel universe, Sri Lanka is ruled by cats. We are peaceful, lazy and content.
Interesting visitor getting ready to address the Joint Opposition press conference in Colombo :)
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Eid Mubarak. Kumbaya solidarity rings hollow when minorities continue to be persecuted.
@Justice4Hejaaz
should never have been arrested. Ahnaf Jazeem should not be spending Eid in jail again. They aren't the only ones languishing under the PTA. I hope we will live in kinder times
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After standing in line for 3 and a half hours, we are informed that they've run out of vaccines for our area today.
People are understandably pissed — many have been here since 9am. Some asked about VIPs who jumped the queue.
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Thought my dad's Sinhala couldn't get any worse but then I overheard him talking to his tailor recently: "Hello, මගේ trouser එක කැඩිලා."
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My dad asked my uncle to buy him a razor. This is what he got.
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Please tell me I'm not the only person who has been feeling bleurgh, demotivated and so very out of it lately.
I have a lot to be grateful for. On most days my heart and cup runs full but all of this *gestures to everything* and prolonged pandemic purgatory is taking such a toll
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I can't begin to explain how moving this picture and gesture is during what has been a very exhausting news week.
Today morning, group of Anglican, Catholic & Methodist priests tied white clothes outside crematorium @ Borella cemetery (where 20days child was burnt against parents wishes) to
#StopForcedCremations
in
#lka
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Good morning to everyone except the person who wrote this strange, racist column which was deemed fit for publication.
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Met on an app. Once we got to know each other, we found out we had lots of missed connections — frequented all the same libraries as children, had multiple mutual relatives & family friends, lived close to one another — & even had the same TMNT bday cake (Michaelangelo!) as kids
Couples… don’t all speak at once but… how did you meet your other half?
Indulge me I’m a romantic!
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Four of Sri Lanka’s most influential medical bodies protest the Health Ministry's decision to import drugs from locally-unregistered Indian suppliers, saying it violates due legal process and endangers the lives of patients.
Story by
@nimilamalee
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In tears watching the video of the most recent death in a petrol queue. Heart sick, so angry.
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So are you telling me... that at some point absolutely everyone has used the let's-see-how-big-your-hand-is-against-mine flirting technique.
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The state has always been violent. What is surprising is the surprise and pearl clutching at this new-old deployment of violence.
#SriLanka
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David Beckham is giving out the same energy as me when I see rich people trying to cosplay as normies.
Hahahaha David Beckham wasn’t having Victoria as coming from a working class family.
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Visited Nuwara Eliya after 29 years recently so obviously I had to recreate the picture I took when I was last there. Please note the stylish knee socks.
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So many gender and sports experts from Sri Lanka weighing in on the Olympics discourse. Looking forward to seeing the same energy and vigorousness extended to violence against women, sexual harassment, equal pay, political under representation, healthcare disparities, unpaid care
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