Mangoes, and the ever-in-season Sri Lankan bananas (or plantains, as they’re commonly called here), being sold from a cart on Central Road, in Wolvendaal, in October 2022.* If you aren’t ready to take them home to ripen to sweetness, a case of exploding mangoes may be instantly had with the liberal sprinkling of chilli and salt.
A resident of Jampettah Street, leaves for work after his morning stop at the neighbourhood fruit stall, crossing himself with a glance back at the bomb-damaged St Anthony’s Shrine, cordoned off at the end of the street. Such daily rituals have resumed for the people of the multi-ethnic Colombo zone of Kochchikade, five days after a National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) suicide bomber killed over a hundred worshippers on Easter Sunday. Continue reading “Life at Ground Zero #2”→
Slices of fresh watermelon hang from a roadside fruit stall to lure flies away from the rest of the produce. The A6 highway, between Habarana and Dambulla, in north-central Sri Lanka. April 2018.
Son of the Morning Light 