Mud Ghecko

     Happier times in Sri Lanka  As I start typing there is something like a dead body trying to fight its way out of my freezer, and my house smells very much like the scene of a homicide where the murderer has tried to hide the evidence but failed. But as far as I'm concerned this is one of my good days. Im Sri Lankan. This is 2022. We are going through a nightmare. Imagine waking up poor, in a third world country? I was what was called middle income. After 30 years of white-collar work, I was planning to retire in 2022 and buy myself a small car. But this was not to be. I'm now stuck in a reality where I can think twice before buying food for my cats, because a kilo of the scrawny bony fish they used to eat those days is now more expensive than a kilo of turkey or lamb or whatever you think is expensive meat. And as for a car, perish the thought. For the last month practically everything I have done has been commuting on my two feet. This shouldn't be a...

A life we rarely see A sweeping panorama of misty highland beauty greets the eye, bringing cool serenity to the heat and grit of Colombo.  The result of combined efforts of more than 3 dozen  youth from the plantation sector of Sri Lanka- and this time they have not been plucking tea leaves, but diverted their energies to a different art- the impactful skill of photojournalism.  Their tireless civil society partners and artistic/creative advisors have pitched in to bring you an experience hitherto unparalleled.  The Teh Kahata exhibition on photography brings you previously untold stories from the so called tea plantation sectors of Sri Lanka, bringing glimpses into a life we rarely experience beyond the uplifting sparkle of a cup of the world renowned Ceylon tea.  Photo by WT Dhanushka Striking visuals   The games that old folk like to say have become a long lost art still live here. A small child sits on a coconut frond while older children pull it along. One picture down some child...