Meher Khalil earned fame and success after saving Sri Lanka's cricket team from a deadly 2009 attack in Pakistan, but the bus driver calls the incident "tragic" and says it is best forgotten.

The title of this post is the title of a poem written by Shamila Daluwatta, a vocal activist for the rights of women and girls in Sri Lanka. The horrific news from the North of another gang rape in just three months, has forced us once again to review who we are as a people. The gang rape in Mannar in March was contested, the evidence was questioned, even by rights activists in Colombo, perhaps seeking to ensure that if such horrible happenings do occur, we need more than hearsay. A grandmother’s anguish was insufficient. Now? Would we deny this too? Is the pain on the streets yesterday also staged or somehow untrue? What of the response on social media to “Tamils protesting”, with the fear mongering of war and conflict on the lips not just of ousted politicians, but also the obvious nationalist elements that still view everyone but the Sinhalese as the other. So blinded by bigotry and political expediency there was little thought spared for the girl, the daughter, the young woman on the threshold of possibility. Now dead. No more. Ashes and dust.

When Canadian science graduate Christopher Charles visited Cambodia six years ago he discovered that anaemia was a huge public health problem.

Sprinkled with salt and pepper and cut into dainty looking star shaped slices or nibbled whole, the succulent starfruit is a coveted fruit known for both its delectable taste and medicinal properties...