Building back better? Sri Lankans face challenges in recovery from floods, landslides

Car repairman R.A.R Premadasa, 78, lost his three-storey house to the landslide at Pelgahatenna village in Badulla district in Sri Lanka. - ST: AZIM AZMAN

BADULLA, Sri Lanka: Lush green terraces still line the hillsides of picturesque Badulla, a highland region in Sri Lanka famed for its Ceylon tea.

But traces of the disaster that blew through the region over a month ago were still apparent when The Straits Times visited on Dec 22.