Dewni De Silva

Reader's discretion: If the below writing isn't eye opening enough, I suggest to search for @aritha.w to get more meaningful content and insight. The images and the statements are disturbing but this is the time to crawl out of your comfort zone and get a better look at the world from where you are standing. Yet there are only a handful of people like @aritha.w who appears for the majority's sake, we won't feel the depth of what's happening in Sri Lanka until it happens to someone we associate.  We talk so highly of our culture. The Sri Lankan culture. The culture where we pretend values are preserved and respected beyond anything else. Where half of the population dedicates a proportion of their lives to correct themselves and adapt to the so called culture. Excuse me for repeating the word 'culture' so many times but first of all, WHAT culture?  From men being allowed to have multiple wives to sexual abuse to domestic violence to disturbing and absolutely ...

Thanks to the continuous scrolling, I came across an interesting post. Must say that this was a total coincidence given that the post was at least a month or so old.  It was shared by one of my friends on Facebook and all due credits should go to him for actually stepping up, confronting this woman and posting this on his feed to let us remind about what rubbish we have to surround ourselves on social media. Even though I have blurred the names in the comments section of the above screen shot, can we for a second silently acknowledge who the antagonist here is?  I am not defending any of the religions here. I'd actually do something better with what I have to say rather than fueling hypocrisy that drains my brain.     The long story short, my friend had merely commented a ' sad reaction ' on one of her posts on Facebook, which according to her knowledge deserved a ' laugh reaction ' as we could assume. This is almost immature and obviously ignorant. We have been...