On a sandy street on the northern shore of the Jaffna Peninsula in Sri Lanka, an innocuous building surrounded by mango and palmyra trees houses a rehabilitation center run by a Catholic priest, who in January 2005 just days after the tsunami began to counsel survivors.
"Now our population...
Posted January 11, 2010 | 14:16:19 (EST)
January 4, 2010
It's kite season on the Jaffna Peninsula in northern Sri Lanka. On the tip of the peninsula, people are flying their homemade kites along the sea's edge with a little help from the northeast monsoon winds. 
It's a good season...
Posted January 5, 2010 | 11:01:18 (EST)
January 1, 2010
It's New Year's Day today in Sri Lanka. The real New Year's for both Buddhists and Hindus on this island is determined by the lunar calendar and will come in April. But if today is not as big as the "real" new year it's big enough and...
Posted December 28, 2009 | 16:32:52 (EST)
December 26, 2009
"How are you going to mark the fifth anniversary of the tsunami?" I asked a woman on the southern coast of Sri Lanka who had lost her husband in the tsunami.
"We don't need to mark it," she told me. "We remember it every day."
Today is...
Posted December 25, 2009 | 09:00:00 (EST)
Everyone is complaining about the heat here, even the stalwarts who were born to it. Disgorged from mind numbing twenty-some odd hour flights, my son and I arrived to find the chocolates we had brought as Christmas presents liquefied into something the consistency of a post-rain mud flow. Vitamin capsules...
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Posted February 2, 2010 | 14:51:22 (EST)