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TIL a little more about Noether's theorem

December 9, 2025

Tectonic Plates: TIL a couple of amazing things.

September 14, 2025

A Drug Story in Jaffna

April 1, 2024

A Drug Story - Happened to a family friend in Jaffna few days ago. Source: mom

How GPT works: 15-minute intuition

February 21, 2024

Karpathy was an OpenAI co-founder and the Tesla autopilot vision team lead. Between Tesla and OpenAI, he released this gem of a guide.

Home Theater Setup: 3300-lumen 4K HDR projector, 120-inch screen

January 27, 2024

My speech at Chinthana & Sunimali's wedding

June 10, 2022

Before I begin, here is an advertisement you cannot skip. I’ve decided to do these wedding speeches as a business. The first two, includi...

Buddha was shot dead - An impactful poem

June 1, 2022

I read this as a kid in Grade 6 or so, and its impact has stuck with me. The following is a short explanation for anyone who might get tr...

Bhanuka and Lashini's Wedding - My speech

May 29, 2022

I don’t know how some people find their soulmates within a few months of joining the university. It took me a year to find the examinatio...

#GoHomeRajapaksas - An Unprecedented Revolution

April 11, 2022

How does the Webb Telescope orbit nothing (L2)?

February 3, 2022

Sri Lanka & Lazarus Heist

September 8, 2021

In 2016, Lazarus Group, a North Korean cybercrime group robbed 1 billion from the account of Bangladesh’s Central Bank in the Federal Ban...

Afghanistan: A Sad Story

August 7, 2021

How safe are our compilers?

August 5, 2021

The Snowflake Generation: A Defense

June 27, 2021

Tamil 101: For Non-Tamils

June 9, 2021

A Jaffna Marriage Story, Jam-Fruit-Tree-style

April 27, 2021

Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics

January 2, 2021

Linear Algebra in our Education: A Rant

November 3, 2020

Grade 8: Here is a matrix, just a few numbers in a box. You can add, subtract boxes. And you can multiply two boxes in this very complica...

Meta-hypocrisy: War Crimes, Sunil Ratnayaka and George Floyd

June 4, 2020

TLDR: We need to compare apples to apples, Sri Lankan people to US people and SL govt to US govt. I have a unique (not really) stance on ...

The Jam Fruit Tree - Book Review

May 30, 2020

One of the best novels I’ve read in English!

Mahabharata - Book Review

April 26, 2020

Finished reading Mahabharata (Rajaji edition)

Easter Attacks - Documentary

April 20, 2020

Terror in Paradise: A must-watch for all Sri Lankans.

Myth of the Chocolate Skin

April 18, 2020

Fun fact, foreigners: Europeans and Chinese have a difficult time wrapping their heads around the concept of our skin colours. They assum...

Story of the "Joy Plant" and Heroin

April 17, 2020

“Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you’re still nowhere near it.”

Solar Eclipse FAQ & Fun Facts

December 26, 2019

Why is it harmful to look at it with naked eyes?

To see in Rajarata - Maps

September 12, 2019

My boarding aunty (Neela Desilva) made me two booklets (PDF links are given), on the great cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa. She ha...

Rohana Wijeweera - An Unbiased Story of JVP (1971-1989)

March 5, 2019

When watching ‘Ginnen Upan Seethala’, I felt it was quite one sided. I wanted to know both sides of history and their justifications. Rec...

The End of Eternity (Asimov): Book Review

March 4, 2019

The best time travel story of all time, from the grand master of hard sci-fi.

The Pillars of the Earth: Book Review

March 3, 2019

Pillars is arguably the best fiction I have ever read and a book that I keep recommending to my fellow bookworms. Set in a historic backg...

Ponniyin Selvan: Book Review (English)

February 28, 2019

Emperor Rajaraja (985-1014 AD) was one of the most notable kings of India. Cholas are considered the villains in Mahawamsa, rightfully so...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Book Review

February 24, 2019

This is a 700 page novel. And on the 30th page, the galactic hyper-way council destroys the earth to build an intergalactic highway.

Sapiens: Book Review

February 23, 2019

We are the product of our history. Like them or not, religions, empires, ideologies and money have shaped our history to make us what we ...

Solving Schrödinger's Equation in 1,2,3-D with MATLAB

February 19, 2019

In my junior year, I picked an elective on Quantum Mechanics: Electronic Devices. The project that was worth 50% was to solve the time-in...

Aba's 2018

December 31, 2018

Asked out a girl for the first time and got respectfully rejected. Started the year in a tent sandwiched between a graveyard and the mo...

Smart Lock: Assembly Programming, Product Realization, Marketing

July 18, 2018

The objective of this project is to gain experience in designing and launching a brand new product into a market. Our product is the ‘Sma...

Aba's 2017

December 31, 2017

★ Walked into Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel with sweaty T-shirt + bottom + muddy slippers at midnight and then into Pettah police station at 2 ...

DonateLK: Web Based Donation Platform

November 18, 2017

DonateLK was developed as a semester project for the module: ‘Modular Software Development’. It is a web-based marketplace that is design...

Feel Lanka - Tourism Development

September 17, 2017

Focused on tourism development in unexplored parts of Sri Lanka, it was a six-week project with a team of foreign and local volunteers co...

Gollum - Ring Finding Robot: [GPS, obstacle avoiding, wall following, color detection, parallel alignment]

August 27, 2017

Through this project we built Gollum, an outdoor mobile robot to perform GPS following, obstacle avoiding, wall following, color detectio...

Adam's Peak: Why the Rib?

April 23, 2017

Jo - ‘Hmm?’ Me - ‘Well, god created Eve from Adam’s rib right?’ Jo - ‘Yes?’ Me - ‘Why the rib, in particular? What’s special about it?’

A Road from Elephant Pass - Book Review

March 25, 2017

An LTTE (Tamil) girl turns herself into the camp at Elephant pass, minutes before LTTE starts their Operation Ceaseless Waves -3 (ஓயாத அல...

Switch Off - Energy Awareness & Wiring Rural Houses

March 18, 2017

My Experience

Aba's 2016

December 31, 2016

*Fighting in Goda Uda Vietnam teaching to wear condoms being someone’s crush eating crocodile “husband” of ...

When the World Burns Around You

November 14, 2016

This is a speech I wrote in 2016, about my mom, for the module: Communication Skills.

A Tale of Three Cities

October 11, 2016

This was a speech I prepared for a course in undergrad, where we were supposed to reflect on our personal journeys.

Dobbybot: A Battlebot under $32

July 18, 2016

For a battlebot competition, we decided to build a bot for under 30$. Clad in stainless steel plates for armour and a flipper arm powered...

Islandwide Mora Exams

June 30, 2016

This year, the 7th annual islandwide model examinations for GCE A/L is being conducted in 20 districts entirely by the students of E15, E...

மாட்டிறைச்சியும் இந்துமதமும்

June 26, 2016

விவேகானந்தர் அமெரிக்காவில் தங்கியிருந்த போது மாட்டிறைச்சி தின்றார். இராமாயணத்தில், கொழுத்த கன்றை அடித்து உணவாக்கி இராமனுக்குப் பரத்வாஜ ...

Nightfall (Asimov Novelette) : Review

June 25, 2016

What if people experience darkness and witness the heavenly sight of the starry night only once in a millennium?

Childhood's End (Arthur C Clarke) - Book Review

June 25, 2016

இனங்களும் இனவாதமும்

February 20, 2016

This is my essay from 2016 (first year at university) that won second place at the all-level essay competition. I’d like to thank Mr. Bas...

Do Horses Bite?

February 6, 2016

This is the story of one of my weirdest experiences: being bitten by a horse (yup, seriously!), and its consequences.

Aba's 2015

December 31, 2015

★ Lost 16 kg by riding 2500 km, exploring entire Jaffna peninsula in bicycle.

Merry Christmas with Arthur C Clarke: Book Review

December 24, 2015

Amazed once again by the rich imagination of Arthur C Clarke as an idea-driven sci-fi writer. Just read the second paragraph below (only ...

AutoCAD 3D: 3 Story House

December 18, 2014

After high school, I took a short course in draughtsmanship. This is what I built for my final project

Poster Series: Chemistry Reactions (High School)

November 18, 2014

I created these charts to prepare for my GCE A/L Examinations. When I graduated from school, I redesigned them in Powerpoint and printed ...

Thondamanaru Lagoon: Baseline Analysis

July 18, 2014

In 2014, I volunteered to help my mom’s team of professors and research assistants on a project to analyze biological and socio-economic ...

Alexandria: Integrated Library System

November 18, 2012

This is one of my first large scale projects. I learnt C#, SQL…etc to do it after middle school. I didn’t know OOP back then, so I ended ...

கன்னிமாடம் - Book Review

August 8, 2012

கடல்புறாவின் முதற் சில பக்கங்களிலேயே சாண்டில்யனின் நீண்ண்ண்ட வர்ணனைகளைப் பார்த்துப் பயந்து ஓடிவிட்ட நான், ‘கன்னிமாட’த்தை படிக்க எடுத்ததற்...