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Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Culture, Photos

Celebrating Female Artists

Twelve women artists are celebrating International Women’s Day this year with a group exhibition entitled With My Back to the World at the Saskia Fernando Gallery curated by Mariyam Begum and Ashini…

Groundviews Groundviews on 03/01/202303/01/2023
75 Years of Independence, Culture, Farming & Agriculture, Photos, Politics and Governance, Poverty

Sri Lanka at 75: A Photostory

This year’s independence day will be our country’s 75th.  It marks an important step in the post-colonial history of the country, and one that serves as an indicator of how our nation…

Groundviews Groundviews on 02/04/202302/04/2023
Colombo, Culture, Photos

The Extinct Art of Diving for Pearls

Braving sharks, venomous snakes and their own human frailty, the pearl fishers of the Gulf of Mannar would plunge deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean to secure their prizes; pristine,…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/18/202301/19/2023
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Development, Disaster Management, Economy, Farming & Agriculture, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Photos, Politics and Governance

2022: A Year Like No Other

2022 was one of the most momentous years in Sri Lanka’s recent history. An unprecedented people’s movement drove out an elected president and prime minister and forced the resignation of the entire…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/31/202201/02/2023
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Culture, Media and Communications, Moving Images, Photos, Poetry

Brilliance and Resilience

There have been dark times in Sri Lanka in 2022. Economic anxiety and disruption of existing supply chains for the essential services of food, gasoline, petrol and electricity led to profound distress…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 12/11/202212/11/2022
Human Rights, justice, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Peace and Conflict, Photos, Transitional Justice

The Luggage of Pain

“Son, this bag belonged to my daughter. I use her bag to try and find her. This bag contains all the documents. It’s now very old and has started to tear in…

Selvaraja Rajasegar Selvaraja Rajasegar on 09/01/202209/01/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Media and Communications, Photos, Youth

The Evolution of Gotagogama and Its Periphery in Colour: One Photographer’s Perspective

The strange poetic irony of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s fall from grace is difficult to miss. So palpable and stinging is his graceless exile and retirement that it is only fitting that he should…

Sandesh Bartlett Sandesh Bartlett on 07/21/202208/15/2022
Colombo, Photos, Politics and Governance

Finish the Job

The party did not last very long. Inflation remains beyond fifty percent, kerosene has not been unloaded from the port, and the national coffers are fifty billion dollars in debt, but the…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/16/2022
#GotaGoHome, Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Photos, Post-War

The Disappeared and the Struggle of Love

“1971 was for a few months. 89 for more than two years, and the war? The war went on for 30 years…10,000 in 1971, 60,000 in 1989 and in the war, of…

Pranith Wirasinha Pranith Wirasinha on 06/05/202206/07/2022
#GoHomeGota, Colombo, Photos

#GotaGoHome in Galle Face (Images)

Gota Go Home rings loud and clear across Galle Face. Anti-government protesters began converging on Galle Face on the morning of the 9th. By the evening of the next day, multiple tents had…

Groundviews Groundviews on 04/11/202205/02/2022
Colombo, Economy, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Photos, Politics and Governance

March 31 Protests and Aftermath: Updates

The Protest Events of March 31 leading into the early hours of April 1, 2022 On March 31, a silent citizens protest that began at Jubilee Junction in Nugegoda burgeoned into a massive show…

Groundviews Groundviews on 04/02/202204/04/2022
Media and Communications, Photos, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2019

The Television President: Visuals and Symbols of Two Years of Gotabaya Rajapaksa

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa marked the completion of his second year in office much like how he started his term in November 2019, playing one of his greatest hits for the Sinhala Buddhist…

Pranith Wirasinha Pranith Wirasinha on 12/02/202112/09/2021
Ampara, Environment, Photos

Eating Garbage, Elephants Die a Painful Death

This is what you see when I photographed elephants looking for food in a huge garbage mountain in Oluvil in the Ampara district. The easiest way to remove garbage in Sri Lanka…

Tharmapalan Tilaxan Tharmapalan Tilaxan on 10/10/202010/10/2020
Badulla, Culture, Identity, Nuwara Eliya, Photos

Thé Kahata Exhibitions: Discovering the Creative Expression of Plantation Youth

Despite their contribution to the lucrative tea industry of Sri Lanka, the voices of plantation workers often go unheard and their potential  unrecognised.  is a series of photographic exhibitions organised by the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 09/11/202009/14/2020
Colombo, Environment, Photos

Documenting the Environmental Degradation of Sri Lanka

A road is cut through the Sinharaja World Heritage Site forest with the approval of the president, illegal trawling in Puttalam is destroying fish stocks, elephants die painful deaths eating garbage dumped…

Groundviews Groundviews on 09/04/202009/11/2020

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