Photo courtesy of NNN Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation In a tribal region of Afghanistan, a sad 10…
Photo courtesy of Quartz There is a tension between “equality” and “difference” in modern South Asia. The tension defines South Asia when it comes to…
Photo Courtesy of TIME At the outset In the 19th Century a French sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the acronym ‘anomie’ to describe the then growing…
Photo courtesy of Newsfirst Sri Lanka hit the lowest point in their COVID-19 response when a 20-day-old Muslim infant was cremated on December 9, 2020 against the…
Photo courtesy of The Independent Systematic discrimination and human rights violations against minority communities in Sri Lanka are not new in the country’s political and…
Photo Courtesy of Women Missing Voices “After the war in 2009, society became divided into two. There was hate propaganda on the internet. Sinhalese got…
Photo courtesy of Daily Sabah As he watched his son’s body being placed in the crematorium, Mohammed Fahim stood outside the cemetery, weeping. “How could…
Photo courtesy of Top News Philippines The question of the burial or cremation of COVID-19 victims took a bizarre turn to expose a government at…
Photo courtesy of San Diego Union-Tribune Article 9 of Sri Lanka’s Constitution states: “The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty…
Photo Courtesy of Al Jazeera By Asanga Welikala and Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne. The election of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in November 2019 marked the beginning of…
Photo Courtesy of Colombo Telegraph There’s an image of Hejaaz Hizbullah I return to over and over again. It’s an image of him holding a…
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 by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP via NPR Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Easter Sunday attacks, in which eight IS terrorists senselessly murdered 269 Catholic…
Image via Deccan Herald, by AFP. Last year, suffering and death struck with the arrival of Easter, to plunge us back into Good Friday. Thousands…
Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images The Easter Sunday attacks were brutal and unprecedented. It surfaced communal prejudices and certain phobias that Sri Lankan society lives…
Image courtesy Quartz India It is with heavy hearts that we have listened to and observed the debates on whether or not burials should be…
Image courtesy Quartz India The Muslim community in Sri Lanka has been engaged with the government in a debate to allow persons who died after…
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…