Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: The Island of Loss and Longing

Sasanka Perera

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has united a divided nation against the Rajapaksa regime

‘I have lived through a civil war, but I have never been this worried about the future,’ says T Shanaathanan

Ullekh NP

T Shanaathanan in conversation with Ullekh NP

Lessons to Learn from Lanka

TP Sreenivasan

Spending borrowed money on unproductive projects is a curse

Island of Despair

Ullekh NP

In Sri Lanka, food inflation has soared to 25.7 per cent with the prices of essentials, including milk, skyrocketing

The Magic of Mermaids

Tasneem Pocketwala

Sharanya Manivannan uses fantastical elements to talk about Sri Lanka’s trauma

The Wages of War

Nandini Nair

The Sri Lankan novelist Anuk Arudpragasam, whose new book portrays the island after the civil war, speaks to Nandini Nair about the spectatorship of violence and the persistence of grief

Ashok Ferrey: Our Fathers in Heaven

Antara Raghavan

Ashok Ferrey’s new book captures Sri Lankans at home and abroad. The author tells Antara Raghavan about the persistence of grief and the art of construction