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
T Shanaathanan in conversation with Ullekh NP
Island of Despair
In Sri Lanka, food inflation has soared to 25.7 per cent with the prices of essentials, including milk, skyrocketing
The Magic of Mermaids
Sharanya Manivannan uses fantastical elements to talk about Sri Lanka’s trauma
The Wages of War
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
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
Nowhere Man
In his novel about a Sri Lankan migrant in Australia, Aravind Adiga makes the reader care with his well-earned facts
From the Spectral Island
Shehan Karunatilaka’s new novel is a whodunnit set in the afterlife. He tells Bhavya Dore that Sri Lanka is crawling with ghosts
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