The spice story from Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan and his spices can never be separated. “Well, neither can an Indian’s — we’re aware of that too,” adds Chandana Alwis,…
Sri Lanka is calm again. That doesn’t mean things are any better.
COLOMBO: On the surface, calm has returned to Sri Lanka since the South Asian nation plunged into political chaos and virtual bankruptcy last summer. Gone…
Sri Lanka’s cost-of-living crunch threatens to sink millions already facing hard choices
RAMBODA: Long before the country’s first-ever international debt default in May 2022 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which added to the country’s problems, tea estate…
The Ambassador, His Swanky New Embassy and the Limits of Diplomatic Immunity
NEW YORK: The U.S. is doing a small developing country’s dirty work in prosecuting its ex-ambassador for fraud, and it may eventually be cause for…
The rise and fall of a political dynasty that brought Sri Lanka to its knees: FRANCE 24
COLOMBO: At the height of their power, four brothers from Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa dynasty held the presidency and the prime minister’s office as well as…
A Letter From Sri Lanka: Galle Storm
COLOMBO: Galle Face is Colombo’s showpiece sea front. China and India have cheek-by-jowl real estate here. The Taj Samudra is an old property, dwarfed by…
Mangala Samaraweera
By Daniel Alphonsus COLOMBO: “This is not a Sinhala-Buddhist country”. This war cry, triumphantly proclaimed in the deepest South after the Easter Bombings, were probably…
PETTI-KADE
‘Petti-Kades’ were generally found in every small neighbourhood in the Sri Lanka I grew up. It was our version of the British Corner-Shop or the…
BISTROS OF MY CHILDHOOD
A quick ‘Google Search’ defines Bistro as a small and inexpensive restaurant. The ones we were treated to on rare occasions as kids were exactly…
Major campaign to end corporal punishment in schools kicks off
COLOMBO: Stop Child Cruelty, a Colombo-based social organisation is spearheading the recently launched campaign ‘End Corporal Punishment in Sri Lanka – Vision 2020′ that is…