Article Archive for February 2010
Posted in Journalism, Portfolio, South Asia on 6 February 2010
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This investigative article exposes how a corrupt government minister is attempting to override the county’s national flora and fauna protection legislation in a bid to allocate state land, that is designated as a protected sanctuary to a private developer. The land is a key watershed area to the primary source of drinking water to the [...]
Posted in Journalism, Portfolio, South Asia on 5 February 2010
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Cricket has unified and inspired Sri Lankans across ethnic boundaries irrespective of religion, gender or age. Yet, an invisible line divides those who are deemed “able” vs. “differently-abled” even in this game. The article explores the silent hopes of deaf Sri Lankan school cricketers who aim to play at the deaf cricketing world championships. Silent [...]
Posted in South Asia on 2 February 2010
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Each dot on the map indicates an incident of violence of an instance when an election law was broken during the just concluded Presidential Elections in Sri Lanka on Jan 26th. The elections come in the heels of ending a 30 year long civil conflict that devoured thousands of lives in flames of communal violence, [...]