Zinara Rathnayake is a writer based in India and Sri Lanka with bylines in The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Atlas Obscura, and others. Her work largely focuses on travel, food, and culture, among others.

When Kolamba first opened in 2019, many diners who walked into the charming eatery in central London’s Soho district weren’t familiar with Sri Lankan cuisine. They thought it was just like Indian food ...

The problem isn’t the availability of food items or essential goods, but skyrocketing prices of essentials due to stockpiling. For weeks headlines have hit news platforms around the world that Sri ...

The City of Angels on Friday, Aug. 9, celebrated the history and culture of the Sri Lankan, Korean and Ecuadorian communities in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council meeting kicked off with a ...

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Sri Lanka is dismantling its own food security at seed level, says Anuka De Silva, an agroecological farmer and land rights ...