For Chamari, a lottery booth doubles as a changing room. Like her, thousands of women powering Colombo’s economy struggle for dignity in a city that forgets a basic need: toilets.

Shipping lines are moving their cargo elsewhere. Earlier this year, Colombo lost the Himalaya service. That loop accounted for about six percent of its volume, and is operated by the world’s number one line, MSC. Colombo’s loss was India’s gain. Himalaya now docks at Kerala’s new deep-water port.

Chitrasena dance troupe performs a tribute to Vajira Chitrasena, on her first death anniversary. It’s next weekend, but tickets are almost sold out.  This week’s Chart reminds us that women’s work is

Marxists commanding a capitalist economy, sluggish growth supporting precocious human development, and rentiers relying on Gulf remittances. No, this isn’t Lanka. It’s Kerala, as sketched-out by Tirthankar Roy and K. Ravi Raman in their new economic history of Kerala.

It’s that time of year again. As they have for over a decade, ministers, diplomats, and activists from Colombo make their annual pilgrimage to the UN in Geneva. Sri Lanka has been on the HRC’s agenda since 2012. But, sixteen years after the end of the war, has the pilgrimage become a farce?

Our Headline on the UNHRC explored the negotiations between majority, minorities, and the international community. The UN film festival’s Friday screening of The Negotiators — How to Make Peace is timely. At the Bawa Space,