evidence: Attracting massive crowds of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds from various places alongside local residents, GGG in Colombo slowly but steadily became the epicentre of youth-led anti-government protests that was termed the Aragalaya (lit., ‘Struggle’). Aragalaya is likely to assume the same place in the bilingual Lankan lexicon that the subcontinental term Hartal does, referring as it does to the 1953 August mass uprising (a countrywide demonstration of civil disobedience and strike led by Marxist parties to express public dissatisfaction over the rise in cost of living, especially the cost of rice). To distinguish between the terms Hartal and Aragalaya, the former refers to a dramatic spike, an event, whereas the latter is a continuing process. The introduction of the term Aragalaya to everyday discourses is indicative of how it marked a watershed moment in Sri Lanka’s contemporary political landscape.