Sri Lanka - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/sri_lanka/?source=rss&aim=sri_lanka en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST What the tsunami dragged in By Jeff Greenwald Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/07/landmines/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/07/landmines/index.html?source=rss Still sorting through the debris in Sri Lanka, officials are uncovering the explosive legacy of a wartorn area: Land mines. A full moon over Sri Lanka By Jeff Greenwald Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/28/moon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/28/moon/index.html?source=rss 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. Tea with the Tamil Tigers By Jeff Greenwald Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/25/tigers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/25/tigers/index.html?source=rss Inside a camp controlled by Sri Lanka's militant rebels, I investigate rumors that the Tamil people are being shortchanged in tsunami aid. "Everyone here has post-traumatic stress" By Jeff Greenwald Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/20/stress/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/20/stress/index.html?source=rss As the horror hits home in Sri Lanka, there are too many relief workers and not enough stress counselors. Toy story By Jeff Greenwald Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/18/toys/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/18/toys/index.html?source=rss With a truckload of stuffed animals, soccer balls and Frisbees, we head to refugee camps to bring relief to the kids of Sri Lanka. The buried village By Jeff Greenwald Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/12/srilanka2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/12/srilanka2/index.html?source=rss 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. Tsunami, ground zero By Jeff Greenwald Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/11/sri_lanka/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/11/sri_lanka/index.html?source=rss After the waves hit, I dared myself to do something. Now I'm in Sri Lanka, where nothing will ever be the same again. Suckers from strangers By Jack Boulware Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2000/11/20/suckers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2000/11/20/suckers/index.html?source=rss Sri Lankan pedophiles are jailed for using heroin lollipops to lure victims. Michael Ondaatje By Michael Ondaatje Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/ondaatje/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/ondaatje/index.html?source=rss "Anil's Ghost" Miss Militant By Carina Chocano Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/log/2000/05/12/miss_militant/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/log/2000/05/12/miss_militant/index.html?source=rss Girls just wanna have total global domination. Painting the eyes of a god By Gary Kamiya Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/04/25/ondaatje/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/04/25/ondaatje/index.html?source=rss Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," returns with a shimmering, suspenseful tale of a skeleton with a dreadful secret. Arthur C. Clarke By Frank Houston Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/03/07/clarke/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/03/07/clarke/index.html?source=rss 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. Fear and loving in Sri Lanka By David Fox Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/01/12/sri_lanka/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/01/12/sri_lanka/index.html?source=rss Serendipity is the traveler's best friend. "Cinnamon Gardens" By Akash Kapur Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/07/16/selvadurai/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/07/16/selvadurai/index.html?source=rss An epic novel captures Sri Lankan high society at the turn of the century, starched but beginning to wrinkle. A different kind of resort in Sri Lanka By Ken Stern Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1998/06/17/mondo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1998/06/17/mondo/index.html?source=rss A reader discovers that an off-the-beaten-track resort in Sri Lanka offers a little less than it promises. Newsreal: Lone gunmen By Jeff Stein Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/11/21/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/11/21/news/index.html?source=rss 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. "Planet Star Trek": Part 2 By Jeff Greenwald Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1997/02/13/startrek/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1997/02/13/startrek/index.html?source=rss 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.