Sri Lanka
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Why Sri Lanka keeps missing its maritime moment
A reproduced news-report extract, source not named, on why Sri Lanka, despite sitting on busy shipping lanes, remains largely a transhipment hub, with over 80 per cent of cargo moved…
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At Negombo, the Indian subcontinent meets where it still can
Writing about a Bahá’í gathering at Negombo on 11 May 2026 attended by friends from Pakistan, Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, the post argues that Sri Lanka is now where…
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India’s Guest. America’s Kill.
X.T.M argues that the US submarine sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena, days after it left India’s MILAN fleet review as a guest, shows the cost of Modi’s diplomacy.…
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Why It Is Still Acceptable to Insult India
A chance encounter in Cambridge exposes how casually India remains a socially acceptable target of disdain in Western conversation—revealing the link between microaggression, diasporic self-erasure, and the discomfort provoked by…
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Open Thread: From Floods to LaBal
Open thread opening with Sri Lanka’s severe flooding, then Pakistan’s minority rights bill, Sam Dalrymple on Lahore and Delhi, Ella Wadia’s debut at LaBal, AOC on an AI bubble, a…
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The Weight of Memory: A Sri Lankan Reminder
Sbarrkum recounts what Sri Lanka’s civil war cost his own family and neighbours, including killed cousins, arrests and mobs. He asks that the conflict not be invoked lightly or abstractly…