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On Migration x Loneliness

December 2025

Friend,

It is now a year since I dismantled the life I built for over three decades, packed it into a few cardboard boxes and two suitcases I bought in Wellawatte, leapt across continents to join my husband and move to a...

4 months ago
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Notes on Space: Majestic City

For a while now, I have been feeling unmoored. And because I am the kind of anxious person to capture this feeling and disassemble and splice it I can pinpoint its origins to a few things.
The first is a gradual dislocation between the c...

2 years ago
21
4

Hi

Friend,

A thing I love about Sri Lanka is how its shores yield different gradations of blue depending on where you are. I began writing this from somewhere in the south of Sri Lanka where the seas are a clear, healing aquamarine and su...

2 years ago
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Notes on Friendship

Dear friend,

I have a picture crystallised in my mind. I am 18 years old. I am circled by my dearest friends. I have a friend sitting on my lap, my arm was draped around another friend, and we are all laughing at something. It’s the kind o...

3 years ago
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Food Postcards: Costco, Aluthkade, Hoppers

  1. Aluthkade/Puthukada

When the influencers discovered Hulftsdorp, my FYP on TikTok was filled with videos from Abdul Hameed Street, Aluthkade. Videos of flame-licked sandwiches, telegenic colourful drinks with strange names, bamboo bir...

3 years ago
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