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 a new era of a Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist…
Photo courtesy of www.channel4.com The governing party’s general election campaign is centred on obtaining a two-thirds majority in the next Parliament. It is expected that the governing party will fulfil its wish…
Photo courtesy of myhero.com In Sri Lanka, the face of Bob Marley is a recurring visual motif- from tuk tuks, to street art, to reggae bars on the beach, and adorning various…
The Kompannaveediya area has seen rapid transformation over the last decade. What is being termed ‘urban development’, in the form of skyscrapers and luxury properties, has come at the cost of several…
With two of my colleagues, I was on a rollercoaster last week at Sarasvathi cinema hall in Trincomalee, watching the new South Indian blockbuster film by Siva, “Visvasam” (Loyalty). No escape whatsoever…
Featured image by Thyagi Ruwanpathirana Multiculturalism in Sri Lanka is often understood as the co-existence of distinct ethnic communities, whose individual histories have unfolded independently during different eras, in different parts of…
Featured image courtesy Her. Him. The Other trailer We stand today with our collective consciousness bruised almost beyond repair. We feel devastated by the chaos, anarchy and culture of impunity. As someone…
I worked with Building Bridges on a four-month series of art and creative skills workshops at St. John’s College, Mattakkuliya. It is a co-educational school whose students come from diverse backgrounds in…
Featured image courtesy Mstyslav Chernov/Wikimedia “Where should we go after the last border? Where should birds fly after the last sky?” Mahmoud Darwish (Earth Presses against Us) “I just passed a polling place…
Tharanga Goonetilleke is a Juilliard-trained Sri Lankan opera singer who has sung internationally, including with the New York City Opera, at Carnegie Hall and the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka while providing…
Photos by Amalini De Sayrah It is easy to forget that Deniyaya is located in the Matara district. Many people travel here in order to trek through the Sinharaja rainforest. Few people…
AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S.KODIKARA, via Asia Times Reform of Muslim family law across the globe has taken onboard the need to establish women’s rightful position within the Islamic framework. The message…
Photograph courtesy SBS Australia “A structure built on human callousness will inevitably collapse in on itself”. Avraham Burg (IHT – 6.9.2003) The first omens of the Meetotamulla tragedy appeared in 2011, when…
Featured image by Ami Vitale/National Geographic When you tell people in Washington that you’re following Sri Lanka, you might get a strange look. You might get something worse than that. But you…
Featured image courtesy Raisa Wickrematunge Videography courtesy Amalini de Sayrah At the time of founding Selyn Handlooms in 1991, Sandra Wanduragala did not know much about the handloom industry, but this didn’t stop her….
