At this time last year, the only contentious news out of Sri Lanka was its problems with Chinese debt and how it proposed to handle the matter. Other than that, the consensus seemed to be that with tourists returning, things could only get better. The one negative note was struck by the continuing freefall of the national cricket team. Today it isn’t just the cricket team that is faltering; the country seems to be falling apart in the giant shadow of a returning Mahinda Rajapaksa, an out-