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The ease with which an entire community’s grief can occupy the heart of London and still go unseen is perhaps the most honest summary of what Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day is really about. The Tamil community does not gather here each May because it believes the world is listening. It gathers because it has learned, across 17 years and across the distances of exile, that the act of remembering is itself a form of resistance.

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Sri Lanka’s climate future cannot be understood separately from the historical labour systems that continue to shape vulnerability today. Colonial economies organised land and labour around extraction. Many of the structures created during that period – dependency on climate-sensitive industries, concentrated labour communities, limited mobility and uneven protections – continue to influence how risk is distributed across society.

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Despite the inescapable religious branding we receive at birth without our consent, our feelings, thoughts and actions are largely shaped by the complex network of social forces and circumstances we are situated in life from time to time. As a rule, we are spurred by ambitions, profits, competition, wealth, glamour and social climbing more than we are by those religious do’s and don’ts we repeat mechanically.

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