When the people of Sri Lanka took to the streets in 2022, none of the political elite perceived it as a death toll: for themselves and their parties. But in the recently concluded parliamentary elections, people marked the ballot paper to clean out an entirely failed political ecosystem. Many of the old political elite did not stand for the parliamentary elections, others have been sent home and others retired permanently from politics once the results came in. On November 14, Sri Lanka’s p
is a political journalist from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She focuses on questions of labour. She has been published in the Washington Post, The Guardian, Aljazeera and Foreign Policy.
