September 14, 2026 – September 20, 2026
This week’s memes:
(The memes published by MPA are presented as objects of analysis and documentation. Their inclusion does not imply endorsement of the views or positions expressed within them, but serves to examine how such narratives circulate in the public sphere.)
Meme 1:
Top: How the one who lies comes [for the meeting]
Bottom: How the ones who listen to the lies stay [at the meeting]
Meme 2:
News report: “We will build 450 tanks this year in Anuradhapura alone. But, there is a problem.”
Comment in Sinhala: “But, there is a small problem”
Meme 3:
Sri Lanka’s political discourse: Victory and defeat
Top: The victor, fearful and alarmed
The essence of the discussion:
Bottom: The defeated, happy and free
Meme 4:
Top: Nomal lies, lies, Spin
Middle: Tale, yarn, fairy tale
Bottom: Whopper, fibbing, outrageously fibbing
Meme 5:
Cannot remember the lies he told at the meeting held the day before yesterday; and so, will go and tell a completely different set of lies at today’s meeting
Meme 6:
“We will build 450 tanks this year in Anuradhapura alone” – The president
Only 107 days remain until the end of this year…450 ÷ 3 = 4.2. That means four tanks a day. No problem, since they are only being built verbally; it can be done…
Meme 7:
They said the LTTE would rise, but never thought it would rise with the pohottuwa (“flower bud” – the SLPP)
Meme 8:
Our mother abandoned us and went abroad, our father is bedridden, the first of my two younger brothers is going to sea, my youngest brother is going to the moon. Only I am there to look after my father, sir…
Context: A narrative told by many beggars in Sri Lanka when they ask for money
Meme 9:
Mr Lakshman Namal Mandela, who has been imprisoned by the cruel NPP rule
Context: Namal Rajapaksa quoted Nelson Mandela in a message he sent from prison for the SLPP rally on September 12
Meme 10:
The group of kings from Anuradhapura who strove to build the few tanks we have, when it was said that 450 tanks will be built in three months
Meme 11:
Top: Anura, who is going to develop the country
Bottom: The small problem
Meme 12:
Meme 13:
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