Photo courtesy As the war was intensifying in the jungles of the Vanni in early 2009, another battle was being fought – the battle for the Sri Lankan economy. The global economic…
Meemure village, Sri Lanka, June 2013. Aamina Nizar for The Picture Press. “No one came to the house”, he said, “but I did get threatening phone calls in the middle of the…
[Editors note: Higher resolution versions of the photos used in this story are available from the gallery at the bottom of this story.] ‘Colombo isn’t the country’, many election pundits say. It…
