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, a native of the Pearl …
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 are the fuel lines that …
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 labourer Nagamma had already cut …
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 discomfort along Embassy Row. In …
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 the finance, interior and defence …
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 the towering Shangri-La of the …
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 Mangala’s most famous words. And …
‘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 Bodega found in most Hispanic/Spanish …
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 that. Our parents could not …
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 focused on ending corporal punishment …
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