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\u2018Lakmahal\u2019: Colonial-Era Abode Turned Into A Community Library-by Kris Thomas<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

\"Lakmahal\"<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Roar.media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a house that once hosted parties for Colombo; where artists mingled with politicians when Sri Lanka was \u2018Ceylon\u2019 and under colonial occupation.\u00a0Lakmahal<\/em>, at number 8A, Alfred House Road, Colombo 3, has undergone many changes since. The black paint on the doors is replaced with a modern brown varnish. The once polished, dark brown floor is now cool cut cement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Lakmahal<\/p>\n

The library area. Photo credits: Lakmahal Community Library<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Anisha Dias Bandaranaike (27), is founder of the newly-launched \u2018Lakmahal Community Library\u2019. She told\u00a0Roar\u00a0<\/em>Media that the idea to establish a library at her family\u2019s ancestral home had been on her mind for almost three years. She finally started work on the project in 2019, and despite the delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the library took a little over a year and a half to come to life.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s a project to get people to read more, write more and engage with literature,” Bandaranaike explained of her endeavour. “The goal is to bring people together and rebuild a sense of community, to serve that community in a literary fashion.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bandaranaike believes her idea for the library to be a permanent space where like minded individuals \u2014\u00a0from established authors and those who intend to be writers \u2014\u00a0can share a common space, is in tune with the spirit of the house.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to do something that could serve the community and kind of keep that spirit of the house. Preserve that energy of a place where people could come and talk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What was once the house’s dining room has now been transformed into a comfortable library and reading area \u2014 complete with a half-moon-shaped reading nook overlooking the gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the day, natural light seeps into this well-ventilated space, and minimal changes have been made to the original architecture. Any changes she did make, Bandaranaike said, were in consultation with her family, in order to ensure that anything integral to\u00a0Lakmahal<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>history remained intact. For instance, the old sepia coloured family photographs \u2014 some of weddings, others portraits of men in curled moustaches and steady gazes and women dressed in\u00a0beeralu<\/em>\u00a0sarees with their hair tied into austere buns \u2014 still grace the walls of the living room.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The portraits of the Wickremesinghe family hung over the reading area. Photo credits: Lakmahal Community Library<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bandaranaike said she was inspired by local literary festivals \u2014 such as the\u00a0Galle Literary Festival<\/a>\u00a0and the more recent\u00a0Annasi & Kadalagotu<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 as well as bookstores she encountered while studying abroad like Washington DC\u2019s\u00a0Politics And Prose<\/a>, \u00a0and sought to create a similar\u00a0 space in Colombo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lakmahal\u00a0<\/em>was named \u2014 Bandaranaike thinks, based on anecdotes she heard from her parents \u2014 after India\u2019s Taj Mahal. While \u2018mahal\u2019 retains the translation of the word \u2018house\u2019, \u2018Lak\u2019 refers to \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019, she said. It was built by Cyril Wickremesinghe, a civil servant of the colonial government and his wife, Esme Goonewardene in 1937. Their older son, Cyril Esmond Lucien, was born in 1920 \u2014\u00a0 his son was a three-time prime minister. The other children were Tissa, Lakshman and finally Mukta \u2014 an only daughter, and Bandaranaike’s grandmother, who was named after a pearl.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Lakmahal] was a house that always had a lot of people coming and going, moving about. It had huge parties , and ideas were shared constantly,\u201d Bandaranaike said of the home that her mother Anila grew up in.<\/span><\/p>\n

On\u00a0Lakmahal<\/em>\u2019s 85th anniversary on 18 January (there is some confusion as to whether it is 17 or 18 January), the house opened the doors of its 1,500-book library to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMore than anything, I associated the house with my grandfather,\u00a0Sam Wijesinha<\/a>,\u201d Bandaranaike said. \u201cHe loved reading and writing. He loved books. More often than not, he would lend a book to another person, only to never see that book ever again. It was always about sharing what he found.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The community library is overseen by a Board of Directors, comprising Dhananath Fernando (chief operations officer of the Advocata Institute), Priyanthi Fernando (executive director of International Women’s Rights Action Watch, Asia Pacific) , author Ameena Hussein and Chalani Ranwala (communications manager at Verite Research), who all serve in a voluntary capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The founder and the board of directors of the library: From the left; Ameena Hussein, Chalani Ranwala, Anisha Dias Bandaranaike, Priyanthi Fernando and Dhananath Fernando. Photo credit: Lakmahal Community Library<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While it is currently self-funded, Bandaranaike hopes the library will eventually expand its operations to\u00a0 set up an endowment fund and generate an income through events. She also hopes that it can one day provide writing courses at a fee to ensure the library becomes self-sustained and is able to function daily, as opposed to its current three-day operations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the 1,500 books that the library currently holds, a majority were donations. The\u00a0Lakmahal<\/em>\u00a0collection includes both nonfiction and fiction, ranging from mystery and thriller genres to young adult and romance, to science fiction and fantasy. An online catalogue of the books is available on their\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The library is open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Library membership is LKR 500 per month and LKR 5,000 per year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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