Sri Lanka is strategically located at the crossroads of major shipping routes important to India and Japan and urgently needs help resolving its debt crisis.
Sri Lankan police use water cannons to chase demonstrators during an anti-government protest by Inter-University Student s Federation, amid the country s economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka August
Should we cast an eye around the last decade or so worldwide, popular drives have yielded “strong” leaders who think they need not attend to widespread livelihood imperatives as normative democratic leaders must.
On June 21, tuk-tuks, motorbikes, cars, and buses lined up at a fuel station on the edge of Colombo's Kurunduwatta, a neighbourhood of tree-lined streets and old mansions. While the tuk-tuk drivers chatted with each other as they stood around near their three-wheelers, motorcyclists doom-scrolled on their phones, flies and mosquitoes buzzing around them in the scorching heat.