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Sri Lanka on the brink

The following is a longer version of a piece I wrote for The New Statesman published on April 27.

7 min readApr 28, 2022

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Sri Lanka on the brink

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Himal Kotelawala

Spoiler alert

In 2012, when the BBC’s Sherlock was all the rage and people were freaking out about the new season, a Sri Lankan Twitter mutual committed…

7 min readJan 29, 2022

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Spoiler alert

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Himal Kotelawala

On superlat

Hyperbole is the internet’s default setting. Almost always, we react to new books, movies, music and TV shows in superlatives. Everything…

2 min readOct 3, 2021

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Sex is never just sex, is it?

It comes with expectations. Even the absence of expectations is an expectation.

1 min readSep 25, 2021

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Sex is never just sex, is it?

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Himal Kotelawala

Better not kill the groove

I’ve been trying my hand at flash fiction. Rather clumsily, if I’m being honest. The following is part of a writing exercise that only said…

1 min readSep 16, 2021

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Better not kill the groove

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Himal Kotelawala

Black Widow: what might’ve been

If there’s one thing Black Widow (2021) proved beyond a doubt, it’s that the fewer superpowers the protagonists in these movies have, the…

2 min readAug 18, 2021

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Black Widow: what might’ve been

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Himal Kotelawala

Innocent hate

Some people like to defend homophobia in Sri Lanka as a kind of “benign” bigotry, claiming it largely comes from a place of “innocent”…

1 min readAug 2, 2021

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‘Paangshu’ — some very late thoughts

This is something I wrote as a college assignment some months ago. Reproduced here with permission from the lecturer.

3 min readJun 6, 2021

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‘Paangshu’ — some very late thoughts

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Himal Kotelawala

Where did the weekend go?

Have you ever noticed how time seems to move faster the older you get?

8 min readJan 30, 2021

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Where did the weekend go?

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Himal Kotelawala

Confessions of a hack

This screenshot was doing the rounds on Twitter the other day.

5 min readDec 14, 2020

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Himal Kotelawala

Himal Kotelawala

Writer and journalist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Byline on The New York Times, Time Magazine and locally EconomyNext, The Daily FT, The Sunday Times and Roar.

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