On the 17th of January 2022, the Lakmahal Community Library had its official launch together with a small group of friends and family.
A new chapter for Lakmahal
By Adilah Ismail A family home turned community centre, the Lakmahal Library, founded by Anisha Dias Bandaranaike, will come to life as one of the six venues for the 2022 edition of Colomboscope The Lakmahal Community Library is made up of certain elements that book lovers dream of when they daydream about a reading space: …
How it began
The idea for the Lakmahal Community Library came from two things. First, it came from a love of reading. As a child I used to inhale books, but in my teenage and college years I had gotten out of reading. In 2017, picked up my love of reading again when I graduated from college and …