Cultural Commentary
This is a selection of my writing for Roar Media, covering culture, politics and hard news.
An interview with Shehan Karunatilaka, award winning author of "Chinaman: the Legend of Pradeep Mathew" and "Chats with the Dead".
A retrospective review of Carl Muller's Jam Fruit Tree, one of the foundational books of South Asian English literature.
An editorial on the Sinhala-Muslim race riots unfolding in Sri Lanka in the year 2017.
An analysis of the decades of government negligence that led to an entire village living on a garbage mountain in Sri Lanka - and the explosion that cost more than 30 lives.
After nearly thirty years of civil war and two Marxist insurrections, Sri Lanka may have mass graves for foundations.