If you like my writing and would like to see it brutalized by bad layout, you can read my columns in print. I’m in The Sunday Leader and now The Nation. This week I’m talking about Sri Lanka Unites in The Leader and Sri Lanka’s Electricity Crisis in The Nation.

I have a small obsession with street artwork. You can get framed pictures of various Hindu gods for about Rs. 200 ($2) from various street shops. I can rarely find them on demand, but there’s usually one near a kovil, especially near the port. I’ve also found them in Vavuniya and parts of Dehiwela. I went to Sri Kethireseran street to one familiar shop, but it was closed. Instead I found a push cart on the street selling these stickers. They are awesome. I’ve uploaded some photos of the set here. They include Mahinda Rajapakse, MG, baby Ganesh hugging a lingam, Hanuman, baby Krishna, Kali, etc.

I’ve started writing a column for the Sunday Leader (the late Lasantha’s paper). The first one is out this Sunday, being today. I generally avoid the local papers, because I don’t want to spend the day weeping uncontrollably. But I suppose i’ll venture out to the kade. The article is online anyways. I think the Leader is third in circulation behind the Observer (for the classifieds) and the Sunday Times, but it’s always been first in balls. I actually edit the stuff I do for Montage or now the Sunday Leader, so it’s a different form of writing. I find it much more difficult, blog I just type and hit publish, but print requires more thought, research, and fact-checking. We shall see. It’s called Article 14.