The Oddyssey

Last month, green enthusiasts cheered when Walmart announced that it would be moving to eliminate non-biodegradable plastic bags from stores across the United States to reduce their collection in landfills. But behold! The supersized grocery giant was passing off a harmful, manufactured textile as sustainable packaging. The Federal Trade Commission put its foot down on [...]

Costa Rica – the global hotspot for amphibian diversity has more than spotted frogs to offer to the world. It is a stellar success story in achieving sustainable growth!.

During the last stages of the military onslaught into rebel held territories in Sri Lanka, in a bid to end Asia’s longest running civil conflict, almost 300,000 people were displaced. The international community was critical of the military administration of camps for the internally displaced, due to fears of human rights violations like extra-judicial killings [...]

Sri Lanka has been battling with both the World bank and the IMF, in a bid to push urgent energy sector reforms to the back-burner. The article explores how this “populist procrastination strategy” has threatened the energy security of the country. Warning signals on the energy crisis

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Idea a lot of people are excited about corn and other “plant- based” packaging without realizing that some of them are only compostable in commercial sites (of which there are very few) and that many end up in landfills. The wide spread misnomer that these utensils are “easily biodegradable” is also fueling the “use and [...]

Plastic bags, Plastic bottles, clothes spilling out of the drawers, food rotting in the fridge and junk mail piling up on my door step! The amount of waste I have generated in the past three months seem to have quadrupled!… The massive portions at restaurants, the mammoth quantities in which most household items have to [...]