Colombo

Colombo has lost nearly 40 percent of its wetlands due to urbanisation in the last 30 years. Several environmentalists are now fighting to preserve and sustain the remaining wetland patches.

Decades of looking to the IMF for salvation has yielded only crises. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis demands urgent relief measures for a desperate citizenry and a new, self-sufficient model of development

Police brutality and growing public consciousness during the ‘Janatha Aragalaya’.

In Sri Lanka, there are many factors shaping mainstream media coverage of citizen-led protests.

Tracing the vision of Colombo as a garden city.

How a group from Colombo resists gentrification through art, archiving and activism.

How has COVID-19 impacted civic mobilisation and organising in Southasia?

A personal reflection on the limits and possibilities of the social-media phenomenon.

Working-class communities struggle to lead ‘grievable’ lives within state-led redevelopments of their cities.

Easter Sunday bombings could create new fissures.