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Author: Shilpa Samaratunge

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Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Photos around questions I couldn’t answer: Four days after the riots

At journalism school I was taught to get as close as possible without getting involved. Go in, get the story, don’t become the story, don’t interfere with the story. These rules played…

Shilpa Samaratunge Shilpa Samaratunge on 07/11/201407/11/2014
Colombo, Education, Gender, Human Rights

Who is a sex worker?

Image courtesy Global Press Journal Who is a sex worker? Is she an attractive woman with loose morals who is too lazy to find any ‘real’ work? Is she a young desperate…

Shilpa Samaratunge Shilpa Samaratunge on 01/29/2014
Advocacy, Colombo, Culture, Economy

Is sex work, work?

Photo by AP, via Occupy.com Two weeks ago we found ourselves sitting in a room full of three wheeler drivers working in the Colombo Fort area on what seemed like an all…

Shilpa Samaratunge Shilpa Samaratunge on 11/24/2013

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