"Laleen Jayamanne writes of the arts, with the commitment and passion of an activist. She writes politically of the arts, but within the gaps, the intervals, and even the absences of the politics of the arts. And what is her politics and what is her practice of art? Watching from a distance, in Sydney Australia, but intimately engaged with the goings on in the Aragalaya, she enters the scene, obliquely and sideways".