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The ‘aragalaya’ or the ‘people’s struggle’ was a historical moment, perhaps one of the most poignant and successful democratic movements of Sri Lanka’s recent history. Since 2015 - democracy prevailed by ‘voting out’ a government, if we, the people, were unsatisfied with our political representation. For the first time, the people of Sri Lanka – cutting across socio-economic class and arguably, many other barriers – came together and marched to Colombo’s Galle Face Green, in parallel to each other and to each other’s goals. They came to do more than simply oust a government but for an idea of justice, equity, democracy and system change.