Meera Srinivasan
Journalist at The Hindu
Colombo-based journalist with @the_hindu; covers Sri Lanka & the Maldives
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4 weeks ago |
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan
A 75-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, who returned from India after decades of displacement during the civil war, was on Thursday (May 29, 2025) detained by Sri Lankan authorities at the Palaly airport in the northern Jaffna district, on charges of having left the country without a valid passport.
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1 month ago |
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan |Stanly Johny |Ananth Krishnan
(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.)“Grabbing her daughter’s feeble arm, Asmaa al-Arja pulls a shirt over the 2-year-old’s protruding ribs and swollen belly. The child lies on a hospital bed, heaving, then wails uncontrollably, throwing her arms around her own shoulders as if to console herself.
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1 month ago |
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan
Renowned Sri Lankan actor Malini Fonseka — who played the female lead in the Tamil film ‘Pilot Premnath’ [1978] starring Sivaji Ganesan — passed away in Colombo on Saturday (May 24, 2025). She was 78. Having begun her acting career in the early 1960s in Sinhala theatre, Ms. Fonseka went on to become a sought-after artiste and film star, winning several awards.
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1 month ago |
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan
“Grief knows no ethnicity”, Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has said, as he vowed to ensure “lasting peace” and build a society “anchored in justice”.
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1 month ago |
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan |Stanly Johny |Ananth Krishnan
(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.)Nearly a month after the brutal terrorist attack in which 26 men, mostly tourists, were killed in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India’s challenges are clear on the diplomatic and strategic fronts. In his address to the nation last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said ‘Operation Sindoor’ is still on.
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