I Died in Your Arms, Then Turned Into an Institution

August 4, 2024

I move through heartbreak, politics, feminism, and myth until the whole day starts sounding like a campaign speech delivered from inside a bruise. I'm sad about a friend's death, but I also keep insisting that I'm more than a person, more like an idea or an institution, and that somebody had to say enough is enough for Sri Lanka. The payoff is the scale of the self-mythologizing: grief, ambition, dictatorship talk, and national purpose all fused into one page.