Meat Space
There’s another meetup of sorts tomorrow, though not a blogger meetup per se. It’s more of a gathering of artists, intellectuals, technorati, etc. Lately there are a lot of physical meetings going on which are, IMHO, important. For example, I met Dominic and Sam among others at the Serendipity magazine launch party. So there are productive relationships and what that can come out of a simple party. So, if any bloggers or photographers or anyone that reads this would like to attend that’d be cool. Here’s a map. It’s on a verandah type thing in the Infoshare building. I suppose there’ll be drinks and stuff, though I’m trying to calm down on the weekdays. Should be some cool people there, yar
I recently wrote about gay marriage, which is not even on the radar in Sri Lanka. But we have another type of marriage discrimination here as well. Foreign marriage. If you marry someone non Sri Lankan, they can never become a citizen. Their lives and their rights to even be in the same country as their children are permanently unstable, and it’s patently unfair.
When 
I started off not really liking General Sarath Fonseka, him being part of the aggressive war effort. I didn’t support the war (largely cause I thought it would fail), and I thought Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Fonseka were gleefully stomping everything. Fonseka even came out and said “I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people,” in 2008 (
General Sarath Fonseka was arrested on a bunch of trumped up charges, but mainly for daring to threaten Mahinda in a Presidential election. Despite his poor health, Fonseka was arrested in February 2010 and sentence to three years. Word on the street now, however, is that he’ll be released soon. Like any day now. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told 
How do you intend to get there? On foot or by bicycle?
I hope you saved some ofthe comments that the supporters of MR left on your blog. It probably makes interesting reading now and probably more so in a year or two.
And why is it called Meat space? Freudian slip perhaps? Of course you probably know of the house at the end of Adams avenue that they call the rising sun…
whats this Infoshare all about?
that’s the problem. even they don’t know what they are about.
Infoshare is behind Moju, the Peace Library and other stuff. I think they’re also behind Voices of Peace, which is the first functional trilingual blog I’ve seen, exceptional because of the Sinhala font problem. They’re basically a geeky non-profit. They do really good work.
I suppose I am getting there on foot. Oi.
Cool – c u dare :-)
Thought you might like to know – great site. Sick of london, working my arse off 24/7 coming out to sl for new years with a couple friends (haven’t been since I was 5 now 25) want to stay for a year and take some time out, was a bit apprehensive but looks like you guys have a great community out there.
Oooh shit! Why did you post this with one day to go, eh?