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I bet you wouldn’t have guessed that

this is not an ordinary poem about the

Unceasing Darkness of our Turbulent Existence,

about the numbness of the State and the piercing shots

English, Lanka!

In Sri Lanka, the English language remains a symbolic marker of privilege, refinement and class—as well as a means of upward mobility.

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