Malaysian traveller learns Sri Lankan history on insightful trip to the island


The writer getting on a train from Nuwara Eliya to Ella. — Photos: SURESH RAO

Sri Lanka is an island located at the southern tip of India. The island’s land size is 65,000km² and it is in the shape of a tear drop. The official languages of Sri Lanka are Sinhalese and Tamil.

In early 2022, Sri Lanka ran out of fuel, food and medicine because the country did not have enough foreign reserves. There were many reasons for this, among them, massive tax cuts which impacted government revenue, the 2019 Easter bombings and the Covid-19 pandemic, which affected the tourism industry.

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