Image courtesy the Economist “11 years later: Back on the Frontlines, Fighting for You” announced an article by Gagani Weerakoon on Ceylon Today on the…
Photo via The Economist “I need justice but I am scared even to ask for the medical record. My mother did not have Corona, yet…
Image courtesy Lanka Views Ramzy Razik was arrested on April 9, 2020 at his home off Katugasota in Kandy by the CID. The next day,…
Photo courtesy NewsInAsia “…by tomorrow, everything will already look different; by tomorrow, everything will already feel different.” – Viktor Klemperer (The Language of the Third…
Image courtesy Sooke News Mirror Editor’s note: The following two short stories were sent in by Tara Kumarasinghe. She is “writing on behalf of the…
26th March 2020 To: H.E. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Hon. Jayantha Jayasuriya, Chairman of the Judicial Services Commission,…
Image courtesy WHO “Epidemic diseases are not random events that affect societies capriciously and without warning. On the contrary, every society produces its specific vulnerabilities.…
Image from Flickr “Try again; fail again. Fail better. “- Samuel Beckett Last year at Easter, sudden acts of violence spread immense fear, injury and…
5th of March 2018 marked the beginning of a series of violent mob attacks against the Muslims in the central parts of the country, perpetrated…
Photo courtesy Tamil Guardian ‘This is how we felt after the tsunami, stunned, bewildered.’ So many friends in Sri Lanka said this to me in…
Photo courtesy South Asian Voices The last year of this decade, 2019 is possibly a turning point in Sri Lankan history. When looking back on…
Featured images by Amalini de Sayrah The focus of 2019’s International Human Rights Day is on a celebration of “the courage, clarity, and principle of…
Photo courtesy Lesley Barnes On the day that marks a week since a new era of Sri Lankan politics dawned, the country that voted for…