Sri Lanka

  • What the tsunami dragged in

    Still sorting through the debris in Sri Lanka, officials are uncovering the explosive legacy of a wartorn area: Land mines.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 7, 2005

  • A full moon over Sri Lanka

    Inside Buddhist and Muslim temples, I discover how Sri Lankans are coping spiritually with the disaster. Nothing has been more moving during my entire trip.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 28, 2005

  • Tea with the Tamil Tigers

    Inside a camp controlled by Sri Lanka's militant rebels, I investigate rumors that the Tamil people are being shortchanged in tsunami aid.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 25, 2005

  • "Everyone here has post-traumatic stress"

    As the horror hits home in Sri Lanka, there are too many relief workers and not enough stress counselors.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 20, 2005

  • Toy story

    With a truckload of stuffed animals, soccer balls and Frisbees, we head to refugee camps to bring relief to the kids of Sri Lanka.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 18, 2005

  • The buried village

    A "Dateline" film crew gets in the way as I make my way to a former surfing hot spot, where families line up for hygiene kits, and a hotel owner, who reminds me of Lenny Bruce, reclaims fishing boats.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 12, 2005

  • Tsunami, ground zero

    After the waves hit, I dared myself to do something. Now I'm in Sri Lanka, where nothing will ever be the same again.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 11, 2005

  • Suckers from strangers

    Sri Lankan pedophiles are jailed for using heroin lollipops to lure victims.
    By Jack Boulware November 20, 2000

  • Michael Ondaatje

    "Anil's Ghost"
    By Michael Ondaatje October 5, 2000

  • Miss Militant

    Girls just wanna have total global domination.
    By Carina Chocano May 12, 2000

  • Painting the eyes of a god

    Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," returns with a shimmering, suspenseful tale of a skeleton with a dreadful secret.
    By Gary Kamiya April 25, 2000

  • Arthur C. Clarke

    For decades, the author of the science-fiction classics "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Childhood's End" has exhibited an uncanny ability to see the future.
    By Frank Houston March 7, 2000

  • Fear and loving in Sri Lanka

    Serendipity is the traveler's best friend.
    By David Fox January 12, 2000

  • "Cinnamon Gardens"

    An epic novel captures Sri Lankan high society at the turn of the century, starched but beginning to wrinkle.
    By Akash Kapur July 16, 1999

  • A different kind of resort in Sri Lanka

    A reader discovers that an off-the-beaten-track resort in Sri Lanka offers a little less than it promises.
    By Ken Stern June 17, 1998

  • Newsreal: Lone gunmen

    The most serious terrorist threat to America comes not from organized or state-sponsored groups of political militants but from loners with a grudge and a gun.
    By Jeff Stein November 21, 1997

  • "Planet Star Trek": Part 2

    Science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke agrees that if we can't cruise outer space ourselves, "Star Trek" is the next best thing to being there.
    By Jeff Greenwald February 13, 1997
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