The police crackdown on the Cockroach Janta Party protests and beyond, Bangladesh investigates first disappearance under BNP rule, Southasia's monsoon toll and more
An Australian playwright of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage, S Shakthidharan turns one family’s story into a meditation on Sri Lanka’s war, colonialism and migration, revealing how history is lived through home
A top monk’s alleged rape of a child threatens to unmask the Sri Lankan sangha, but its moral decay is rooted in the millennia-long transformation of the Buddha’s dhamma into Sinhala Buddhism
Sixteen years after Prageeth Ekneligoda’s abduction, his wife Sandya continues to fight for justice for him amid ongoing impunity for crimes against journalists in Sri Lanka under Anura Kumara Dissanayake
Angela W Little’s book spans the original vision and contemporary debates around Sri Lanka’s system of free education, but fails to fully capture its intertwined dynamics of learning, politics and nationalism
New data from Ukraine shows Sri Lankans top Southasian death toll, accounting for 275 of 455 killed, while Southasian fighters and their families report human trafficking and coercion in recruitment
