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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks ago | 
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan
Sri Lanka has conveyed its “strong objections” to the opening of a “Tamil genocide monument” in Brampton in Ontario, Canada, saying such actions “complicate and undermine” the government’s efforts towards reconciliation and national unity.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan
COLOMBOSouth Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, has demanded that the governments of India and Pakistan immediately de-escalate “the current war situation”. Issuing a statement on Thursday [May 8, 2025], it warned that “failing to do so will irrevocably affect people of both countries as well as the people of South Asia”.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan
In this episode, we speak to ace guitarist Prasanna, who is based in the United States. An acclaimed artiste, teacher, and composer, Prasanna effortlessly plays different styles, from carnatic music, contemporary jazz, rock, blues to Indian film music.
He talks about his musical journey across genres, and zooms into celebrated music composer Ilaiyaraaja’s work, especially his use of the guitar in some iconic film songs.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Stanly Johny |Meera Srinivasan |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.)Tensions remain high between India and Pakistan. After the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 people were killed by armed gunmen, Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed that India will pursue the attackers and their backers “to the ends of the earth”.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan
Over 17 million Sri Lankan voters will on Tuesday (May 6, 2025) get to vote in the local government elections — the island nation’s third election in seven months — to elect representatives to as many as 336 local bodies. The voters will choose members and chairs of Municipal Councils, Urban Councils, and Pradeshiya (rural) Sabhas in the first electoral contest after a popular wave propelled President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his National People’s Power (NPP) coalition to power last year.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan
A flight from Chennai that arrived in Colombo on Saturday (May 3, 2025) was subjected to a detailed security search, following information from Indian authorities that a suspect linked to the Pahalgam terror attack could be among the travellers, Sri Lanka police said. All passengers, including transit passengers, were thoroughly screened, and no one with the identity provided by Indian authorities was found, a top Sri Lankan official told The Hindu.
